Systems Engineer - Space Systems

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: No relocation assistance available

CLEARANCE TYPE: None

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 is seeking a Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) Level T02. This position will be located at our Space Systems Sector in Dulles, VA. The qualified candidate will become part of Northrop Grumman’s Tactical Space System.

Roles and Responsibilities:

In this role, under the supervision of an MBSAE Lead, you will perform duties contributing to general mission and/or space vehicle systems engineering activities. You could support and/or be responsible for developing requirements, design, integration, development or testing of air & space payloads, spacecraft buses, satellites, and manned or unmanned space systems.

Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) is gaining more visibility as the preferred systems engineering approach for space system architects and engineers within both industry and government. To support the digital enterprise and meet the increasing demand for MBSE, Tactical Space Systems continues to mature its proven system-modeling capabilities (both descriptive and analytical) and aims to broaden the depth and breadth of its modeling staff to support our rapidly growing business areas. This position will provide the selected candidate an excellent opportunity to contribute to maturing our modeling capabilities to better support active program and business-development efforts across the division.

Responsibilities:

• Strong team player. Works well in a team environment. Follows directions.
• Leadership skills to facilitate discussions and fill in other team member’s role as necessary.
• Work closely with other engineers, including system engineers and other domain CogEs.
• Able to work independent when needed, meet due-dates, and deliver quality products.
• Demonstrate excellent oral and written communication skills with strong interpersonal skills.
• Work with the team, proactively bring ideas, drive results to goals, resolve issues. Complete tasks in an efficient timely manner.
• Model space-system architectures (logical and physical) at multiple levels of abstraction across the Systems Engineering “V” model implementing both descriptive and analytical models to:
  • Develop the system’s Concept of Operations (ConOps), including mission threads and use cases, mission phases, and mission activities.
  • Describe the functions at each architectural layer, trace them to the developing requirements, and trace them to the other architectural layers.
  • Describe 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
  • Analyze current and future systems to address capability and integration gaps and create innovative system design concepts, capabilities, and approaches to sophisticated engineering projects

Basic Qualifications:

• Must be able to obtain Top Secret Clearance/SCI.
• Bachelor’s degree in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) or related area, and minimum of 2 years of experience. Preference for degrees in systems engineering, computer science, or electrical engineering.
• Experience with Systems Modeling Language (SysML) and Unified Modeling Language (UML), including experience with developing SysML profiles to extend the language for domain-specific purposes.
• Proficiency with either Cameo Systems Modeler or Cameo Enterprise Architecture.
• 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 technical and MBSE experience, across multiple platforms, and spanning the product development lifecycle.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Technical systems knowledge of TSSD’s various ESPAStar product line variants.
• Experience with TSSD’s Integrated Model-Centric Engineering (IMCE) modeling approach, patterns, profiles, and tooling.

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Salary Range: $89,400.00 - $134,200.00

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.

Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and 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 an Equal Opportunity 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 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.