United States-Virginia-Dulles, United States
$110-166k
Full Time
2 hours ago
Job description
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 successful candidates for this position will work in a technical role in Dulles VA. This Systems Engineering role is responsible for the mission system integration and onboarding efforts for a space program in the Space Missions business area within the Space Systems Sector.
The candidate will perform mission onboarding activities for a ground-based, service-oriented architecture intended to service next generation space capability. They will help manage from a technical and programmatic perspective to integrate external space vehicle with the ground segment. The team focuses on the software integration with the ground segment to enable operations. This includes the integration of multiple heterogenous space vehicles into a common ground system. The candidate will develop critical mission operations products in support of orbital analysis to include identification and integration of signature limitations and constraints. A successful candidate will have experience creating mission user guides and providing mission liaison support to mission operations.
Duties/Responsibilities:
This position will expose the candidate to equal parts technical competency, forward thinking ideas, and execution focus.
This position requires a functional understanding of ground system networking, private cloud deployments, data and messaging buses, software deployment, and hardware deployment.
This position utilizes abilities to interact in an organized and solutions-oriented manner, with external entities who are contributing elements of the integrated ground segment.
The team is managing work in Jira to work closely with the ground software development team.
The work is managed between the low and high side and occurs on both.
It will require organization skills to keep it all on track.
This position requires being onsite and does not support remote work.
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Basic Qualifications:
Must have U.S. Citizenship with a current or active Top Secret/SCI Clearance at time of application
Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related technical field with at least 5 years of applicable experience, or Master’s degree with 3 years of applicable experience
Experience in Space to Ground and Mission Architecture and Space Vehicle Systems Engineering
Background working software systems engineering
Preferred Experience:
Experience with Satellite Ground Systems in the US National Security arena
CONOPS development for Space Based programs
Knowledge of various mission analysis techniques and software tools
Understanding of Agile software development practices
On-orbit testing of space systems and testing of integrated ground systems
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