ESPAStar MBSE Lead- Top Secret Clearance Required

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: No relocation assistance available

CLEARANCE TYPE: Top Secret

TRAVEL: No

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.

Northrop Grumman Space Systems (NGSS) is seeking candidates for the position of Systems Engineer 5 in the Tactical Space Systems Division (TSSD). This position will remote.

The person selected for this position will be responsible for leading a system modeling team for a space vehicle product-line supporting multiple program & new business national-security pursuits in our Satellite Missions and Space Security Systems Business Units within Tactical Space Systems Division. The selected candidate will support technical systems-engineering work at the mission, vehicle, bus, subsystem, and component levels, spanning the entire program life cycle from early concept studies, design development, system integration/test, launch and early operations, mission operations/sustainment, and system disposal. Programs/captures range from small feasibility studies to medium-sized on-orbit technology demonstrations and large-scale national systems.

Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) (and Model-Driven Engineering, more broadly) is gaining more visibility as the preferred systems engineering approach for space system architects and engineers within both industry and government. The selected candidate will be responsible for leading system modeling efforts performed by multi-disciplinary teams for complex, space- and ground-system development programs by maturing both descriptive system models & analytical models & building a cadre of capable systems & software engineers that can perform their responsibilities “in the model”. This position utilizes abilities to interact in an organized and solutions-oriented manner, with external entities who are contributing elements of the integrated system.

What you will do:

• This is a dual-role technical and team-lead position, balancing assigned technical performance on program work, and leading a small group of ESPAStar MBSE-capable systems engineers
• Demonstrate excellent oral and written communication skills with strong interpersonal skills
• Act as a MBSE technical interface to programs and upper management
• Work closely with engineers, and management to ensure developed products meet customer expectations
• Support new-business capture & new-initiative efforts to define the MBSE scope of work, develop basis of estimates (BOE), perform task allocation, and forecast work
• Support functional manager with staff planning, including interviewing new candidates, and supporting growth and development of current team members
• Facilitate team meetings and motivate team members, providing guidance to the system-modeling team on technical development, performance, and productivity issues
• Maintain and evolve product-line and program descriptive-system models, supporting profiles/repositories (re-usable model libraries/patterns, design patterns, product architecture, and design-artifact templates) to enable efficient implementation of program model-based systems engineering efforts for space-system development programs
• Work closely with product-line Lead Systems Engineers and Engineering Team Leads to ensure the system-architecture models are in sync with the system design & correct
• Model space-system architectures (functional and physical) at multiple levels of abstraction using Cameo Enterprise Architecture to:
  • Develop the system’s Concept of Operations (ConOps), including mission threads and use cases, mission phases, and mission activities.
  • Define the functions at each architectural layer, trace them to the developing requirements, and trace them to the other architectural layers.
  • Define the physical implementation of alternative design solutions (capturing composition, interfaces, performance) and mature the selected design throughout development.
  • Capture the system verification and validation plan, map V&V activities to the system elements/requirements and support system V&V and customer buyoff.
  • Facilitate review by product-line/program/proposal teams, subject-matter experts, stakeholders, and customers throughout development (and operations, if applicable).
  • Exercise the models to perform impact assessments of proposed changes and support design decisions and modify the model to capture approved changes as the design matures.
  • Support the Division MBSE Architect in developing domain-specific language (DSL) profile extensions to codify ontologies in various engineering and operations disciplines to reflect standards/best practices and enable seamless integration with other model-based applications
• Expected to be technically competent in all the work performed by the MBSE team such that can act as a reviewer of product to ensure quality  
• Provide support to functional manager by developing training and OJT material that will enhance the skills of junior MBSE team members
• Working with functional manager to develop processes, procedures, and training material with will aid to the continuous development of the team
• Analyze current and future systems to address capability and integration gaps and crate innovative system design concepts, capabilities, and approaches to sophisticated engineering projects

Basic Qualifications:

• Must have U.S. Citizenship with active or current Top Secret Clearance at time of application, with the ability to obtain SCI.
• Bachelor’s degree in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) or related area) and 12+ years of experience, Master’s Degree and 10+ years, or PhD and 8+ years of experience. Preference for degrees in systems engineering, computer science, or electrical engineering.
• Extensive experience with ESPAStar Product Line platforms and descriptive modeling, Systems Modeling Language (SysML) and Unified Modeling Language (UML), including experience with developing SysML profiles to extend the language for domain-specific purposes.
• Familiar with ESPAStar payload harness design, and payload to platform integration requirements.
• Extensive experience with descriptive modeling:
  • COMM design upgrade systems engineering experience
  • Equipment list development model design, updates and maintenance
  • Electrical connectivity model design, and mass property model design
  • Power budget CAMEO model design, development, and maintenance
• Strong systems engineering skills, including ConOps development, activity/scenario analysis, requirements definition/allocation, functional decomposition, interface definition, verification & validation, requirements traceability to the test plans, & life-cycle management.
• Broad TSSD payload descriptive, analytical modeling and MBSE experience, across multiple ESPAStar platforms, and spanning the product development lifecycle.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Significant technical systems knowledge of TSSD’s various ESPAStar and ESPASat product line variants.
• Extensive experience with TSSD’s Integrated Model-Centric Engineering (IMCE) modeling approach, patterns, profiles and tooling.
• Experience with groovy, java, java script, python, and/or OCL (in an MBSE context).
• Experience with Velocity Template Language (VTL), Cameo Collaborator, and related methods for extracting information from the descriptive model by use of other software applications.
• Experience with various technical analysis tools, such as MATLAB, STK, ModelCenter, etc.
• Experience with employing Cameo’s Open API to interact with the descriptive model, produce digital products from the descriptive model, and integrate the descriptive model with downstream engineering tools.
• Experience with autocode-generation from Cameo/SysML models.
• Experience in all levels of space systems engineering at the mission-, vehicle-, and lower-levels of the system architecture.
• Experience with Unified Profile for DoDAF and MoDAF (UPDM), Unified Architecture Framework (UAF), and/or the Department of Defense Architecture Framework (DoDAF)

Salary Range: $155,400.00 - $233,200.00

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.