Sr Principal Systems Engineer – IPT Lead (*TS/SCI required)

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE TYPE: SCI

TRAVEL: Yes, 10% of the Time

Description

At Northrop Grumman, our employees have incredible opportunities to work on revolutionary systems that impact people's lives around the world today, and for generations to come. Our pioneering and inventive spirit has enabled us to be at the forefront of many technological advancements in our nation's history - from the first flight across the Atlantic Ocean, to stealth bombers, to landing on the moon. We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage and a pioneering spirit to join forces to invent the future, and have fun along the way. Our culture thrives on intellectual curiosity, cognitive diversity and bringing your whole self to work — and we have an insatiable drive to do what others think is impossible. Our employees are not only part of history, they're making history.

The Payload and Ground Systems, a division within Northrop Grumman’s Space Systems Sector is known for pushing the boundaries of innovation, redefining engineering capabilities, and driving advances in various sciences through cutting-edge technology.  Our team is chartered with providing the skills, and innovative technologies to develop, design, produce, and sustain optimized product lines across the sector while providing a decisive advantage to the warfighter. Come be a part of our mission!

The Mission Exploitation Operating Unit (MEXOU), a part of the Payload and Ground Systems Division Engineering division, is seeking a Systems Engineer to support our Integrated Product Team (IPT) as the IPT Lead.

This position may be at our Fairfax VA, or Linthicum MD sites. (Compensation varies per location)

This position requires being onsite and does not support remote or hybrid work. 

This role will help lead in defining, and developing system specifications, interfaces, processing platforms, and virtualized compute infrastructure requirements as well as for systems architecture by defining, adapting, and deploying software applications and mission data management across virtualized and distributed infrastructure.

Job responsibilities will include, but not be limited to, the following:

• Utilize sound engineering practices to perform technical planning, system integration, verification and validation, and cost and risk analysis.

• Ensures the logical and systematic conversion of customer or product requirements into solutions that acknowledge technical, schedule, and cost constraints.

• Perform functional analysis, timeline analysis, detailed trade studies, interface definitions and other studies.

• Developing and configuring operational baselines and developing ICDs.

• Coordinating and conducting system engineering activities (e.g. SRR, SDR, PDR, CDR, etc.) and other ground segment support activities. 

• System engineering product deliveries include Interface Control Documents (ICDs), trade study reports (TSRs), simulation & analysis, and other supporting reportable documentation.

• Lead a cross-functional team designing, developing, building, and operating space program mission processing capabilities.

• Derive mission threads and use cases.

• Define system functions and trace to requirements.

• Perform requirements development and management of the Mission Element specification and its sub-systems

• Facilitate subject matter experts, stakeholders, and customers throughout the process of developing architectural specifications.

• Present technical information to mission partners, customers, and internal stakeholders

• Develop program/mission-specific ground specifications and ICDs

• Hold weekly/regular meetings with stakeholders

• Coordinate end-to-end testing during the Integration & Test (I&T) phase

• Support design Verification & Validation (V&V) activities

• Ability to support/lead Segment proposal sections

• Key member of the leadership team

Basic Qualifications

• Must have an active U.S. Government DoD Top Secret security clearance with Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) at time of application

• Must have a completed STEM degree with below years of experience in systems engineering [a degree in the fields of science, technology, engineering, or mathematics]

  • 8 Years of relevant experience with a completed Bachelor's (STEM)

  • 6 Years of relevant experience with a completed Masters's (STEM)

  • 4 Years of relevant experience with a completed Ph.D. (STEM)

• Must have experience in all of the below:

  • Working in a technical environment, with an interface to engineering and science

  • Engineering skills, including requirements definition/allocation, interface definition, verification & validation, and life-cycle management.

  • Experience developing architecture based on program requirements

  • Experience using Atlassian tools (JIRA, Confluence, Bitbucket)

  • Experience in software systems development, software integration, and test.

  • Experienced with Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines

  • Strong Leadership and Communication Skills

  • Familiarity with Agile Scrum practices and traditional waterfall projects

• Must be willing to submit to a polygraph

Preferred Qualifications

• Successful and adjudicated polygraph

• Familiarity with Commercial Cloud Services (C2S) or Amazon Web Services (AWS)

• Familiarity with geospatial data, geospatial processing, and/or remote sensing

• Space Vehicle to Ground and Ground to Space communication design, implementation & interface testing experience.

• Experience with Ground Systems (space or satellite knowledge highly preferred)

• Experience with inter-process messaging across platforms

• Experience in working with external partners developing Interface Control Documentation

• Experience with scalable cloud-based software architectures

To better support our employee’s work/life balance, most NG worksites support a 9/80 work schedule. The 9/80 schedule allows employees to work a nine-hour day Monday through Thursday and take every other Friday off.  This schedule or other work-hour flexibility options can be determined upon hire.

With us, you’ll discover a culture of curiosity and collaboration that will have you Defining Possible from the day you start. Our space systems connect and protect millions of people on Earth every day, now and for the future. Explore your future and launch your career today. #definingpossible

Salary Range: $131,100.00 - $206,000.00

The above salary range represents a general guideline; however, Northrop Grumman considers a number of factors when determining base salary offers such as the scope and responsibilities of the position and the candidate's experience, education, skills and current market conditions.

Employees may be eligible for a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay. Annual bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions as well as allow employees to share in company results. Employees in Vice President or Director positions may be eligible for Long Term Incentives. In addition, Northrop Grumman provides a variety of benefits including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, savings plan, Company paid holidays and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business.

The application period for the job is estimated to be 20 days from the job posting date. However, this timeline may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates.

Northrop Grumman is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class. For our complete EEO/AA and Pay Transparency statement, please visit http://www.northropgrumman.com/EEO. U.S. Citizenship is required for all positions with a government clearance and certain other restricted positions.