Aeronautics Engineer – Responsible RE

Northrop Grumman • Palmdale, CA

3d • $91,800 - $137,600 • Onsite

About The Position

Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems has an opening for an Aeronautics Engineer – Responsible RE to join the team of qualified individuals. Position is located onsite in Palmdale, CA. Remote/Hybrid is not available. Exciting position offers the opportunity for candidates to be a self-starter. This is not your average engineer role. with familiarity working in an Integrated Product Team construct.
The selected candidate will be required to work full-time, on-site at our facility. Travel up to 25% may be required.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) discipline and 2 years of related engineering experience; OR a Master’s degree in a STEM discipline and 0 years of related engineering experience.
• Excellent technical communication skills, with experience producing requirements, ICDs, verification artifacts, and supporting test or certification activities
• Experience with development, design, or sustainment of electronic systems (VMS, Power, Navigation, or similar).
• Active U.S. Government Secret clearance (with a background investigation within the past 5 years or enrolled into Continuous Evaluation).
• Ability to obtain and maintain initial Special Access Program (SAP) access via a Program Access Request (PAR). This SAP/PAR must be obtained prior to commencement of employment and must be obtained within a reasonable amount of time as determined by the company to meet its business needs.
• Travel up to 25% may be required.

Nice To Haves

• Current applicable Special Access Program (SAP) clearance.
• Experience as a supplier management team technical lead, or experience in program management or systems engineering
• Experience presenting technical content to upper management
• Experience with test lab Instrumentation and execution.
• Experience with electrical signal processing – 1553 analyzers, RS-232, RS-485, 1394
• Proficient in CATIA, Matlab, Microsoft Visio
• Experience with development, design, sustainment of vehicle management systems (VMS)
• Demonstrated experience designing, implementing, and verifying VMS functions (including algorithm development and closed loop control).
• Current applicable Special Access Program (SAP) clearance.
• Active U.S. Government Top Secret or higher clearance (with a background investigation within the past 5 years or enrolled into Continuous Evaluation).

Responsibilities

• Serve as the Responsible Engineer for an electrical subsystem (Vehicle Management System, or Electrical power system) across design, integration, verification, and sustainment phases.
• Provide technical oversight and guidance to the multiple software development and test teams to include software architecture and design. Also provide technical solutions to the team's software needs
• Produce and maintain engineering artifacts: architecture diagrams, interface control documents (ICDs), requirements specifications, design descriptions, verification reports, and certification evidence.
• Develop and maintain high-fidelity modeling and simulation environments algorithm development, Monte Carlo analysis, hardware-in-the-loop (HIL), and software Integration Lab (SIL) verification.
• Lead integration and verification activities: produce test plans, execute/oversee simulation, HIL, bench, and flight tests, analyze results, and close verification artifacts to demonstrate compliance with requirements.
• Coordinate across systems engineering, test, software, mechanical, and supplier teams; present technical status and risk to program leadership.
• Technical point of contact for the system and will be required to develop technical solutions to a wide range of complex problems that come up.
• Perform functional analysis, conduct detailed trade studies and interface definition studies in order to translate customer requirements into hardware and software specifications.
• familiarity working in an Integrated Product Team construct

Benefits

• health insurance coverage
• life and disability insurance
• savings plan
• Company paid holidays and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business
• overtime
• shift differential
• discretionary bonus
• Annual bonuses
• Long Term Incentives (for VP or Director positions)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level