Consulting Engineer Systems Architect

Northrop Grumman•Rolling Meadows, IL

1d•$202,500 - $303,700•Onsite

About The Position

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 Mission Systems (NGMS) seeks to fill a Consulting Engineer System Architect in Mission Engineering position within the Systems Engineering, Integration, and Test (SEIT) organization for Central Region Engineering (CRE) at our Rolling Meadows - Illinois location. The selected candidates will be responsible for technical leadership for the SEIT department’s Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) and/or Mission Architecting utilizing MBSE. This role encompasses team leadership, management, and technical performance. NGMS is a leading global provider, manufacturer and integrator of advanced, secure and agile software-defined systems and solutions. Our products range from advanced sensing technologies to state-of-the-art targeting and tracking systems that are deployed in Electro-Optical Infrared (EOIR) and Radio Frequency Electronic Warfare (RFEW) systems. These systems are designed, developed, built, integrated, and tested by the capable folks at our company to protect the lives of U.S. and Allied warfighters in present and future conflicts. Our SEIT organization provides complex avionics systems in Targeting, EOIR, and RF technology areas.

Requirements

BS degree in electrical, mechanical, systems engineering or related STEM degree with at least 16 years of related experience required, or 14 years with Master’s, or 12 years with a PhD.
Prior experience negotiating with customers to convert customer needs into testable system requirements
Expertise in model-based systems engineering tools, frameworks, languages and concepts.
Experience performing optimum system function allocation to hardware and software requirements
Demonstrated success in developing descriptive and analytical models that prove the system satisfies requirements and the ability to quickly capture and process data in tools like MATLAB for debugging and specification verification
Excellent written and oral communication skills, and ability to work in an integrated product team environment
Experience working on Department of Defense contracts
Candidate must be a US Citizen
Current active Secret (or higher) security clearance

Nice To Haves

SysML experience preferred
Experience in Mission Architecting and performing Operations Analysis to trade mission-level concept of operations (CONOPS) and derive mission system requirements utilizing model-based systems engineering
Experience capturing system requirements and implementing descriptive system level models and architectures in tools such as Rhapsody, Cameo, Capella or DOORS
Prior experience designing hardware, firmware, and programming software to best allocate functions for each product
Ability to monitor hardware and software design teams with critical insight to know when the teams are not on path to successful implementation and then be able help steer the team to a successful solution
Experience in architecting Electronic Warfare RF systems and/or Electro-optical / Infrared (EOIR) countermeasure and targeting systems
Active Top Secret security clearance

Responsibilities

Performs technical planning, system integration, verification and validation, cost and risk, and supportability and effectiveness analyses for total systems.
Analyses are performed at all levels of mission and total system products to include concept, design, fabrication, test, installation, operation, maintenance and disposal.
Ensures the logical and systematic conversion of customer or product requirements into total systems solutions that acknowledge technical, schedule, and cost constraints.
Performs functional analysis, timeline analysis, detail trade studies, requirements allocation and interface definition studies to translate customer requirements into hardware and software specifications.
Demonstrates an exceptional degree of ingenuity, creativity, and resourcefulness.
Applies and/or develops highly advanced technologies, scientific principles, theories and concepts.
Acts independently to uncover and resolve issues associated with the development and implementation of operational programs.
Plans R & D programs and recommends technological application programs to accomplish long-range objectives.
Designs research and develop highly advanced new applications resulting in new product/business opportunities for the company.
Serves as consultant to top management in long-range company planning concerning new or projected areas of technological research and advancements.
Acts as prime spokesperson on company’s technical capabilities and future directions.
Is often instrumental in attracting and obtaining major new company business.