Principal or Senior Principal Flight Avionics Responsible Engineer

Northrop Grumman•Melbourne, FL

13d•$98,400 - $184,200•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 Aeronautics Systems has an opening for Principal or Senior Principal Flight Avionics Responsible Engineer to join the team of qualified individuals on our Avionics Organization. This position is located onsite in Melbourne, Florida. In this role as the Flight Avionics engineer, your success depends on good leadership skills and understanding the scope of the work and the impact of the work on other teams, consistently bringing up concerns, issues and risks to program and technical leadership, and holding the team to a high level of technical rigor. You would need to thrive in a fast-paced work environment with high expectations, significantly diverse assignments, collaborative/team settings across all levels.

Requirements

At a Principal Level: Must have a Bachelors degree in a STEM field and at least 5 years of relevant military / professional experience, OR a Master's Degree in a STEM field and at least 3 years of relevant military / professional experience, OR a PhD and at least 1 year of relevant military / professional / academic experience
At a Senior Principal Level: Must have a Bachelors degree in a STEM field and at least 8 years of relevant military / professional experience, OR a Master's Degree in a STEM field and at least 6 years of relevant military / professional experience, OR a PhD and at least 4 years of relevant military / professional experience
Must have an active US Government Secret or higher clearance (with a background investigation completed within the last 6 years or currently enrolled into Continuous Evaluation).
Must have the ability to obtain and maintain Special Access Program (SAP) clearance within a reasonable amount of time as determined by business needs.
Must have experience in COTS / MIL-COTS hardware functional design and performance analysis
Must have experience with design, development, and integration of flight deck equipment
Must have experience with trade studies, documenting subsystem architectures, analyzing performance, and evaluating Technology Readiness Level (TRL) with regard to supplier current and future products offerings
Must have experience with system modeling and requirements management tools (Cameo, DOORS, Rhapsody, etc.), developing/maturing requirements, and tracing requirements through various levels.

Nice To Haves

An active Top Secret clearance
Experience with Military Navigation and Navigation Aids
Experience with integrating Military Navigation instrumentation on aircraft and interfacing with mission software
Integration and/or Design experience with of one or more of the following avionics systems as applied to military aircraft: 1. Flight Management Systems (FMS) 2. Primary Flight Displays (PFDs) 3. Control Display Units (CDUs) 4. Terrain Avoidance and Warning Systems (TAWS) 5. Crew Alerting System (CAS) 6. Moving Maps 7. Embedded GPS/INS (EGI) Navigation Systems
Experience with developing supplier documentation, performance based specifications, and statements of work
Experience building supplier evaluation criteria and experience in conducting technical evaluations, documenting results and selection
Ability to review documents from the supplier’s development effort and support supplier technical interchange meetings and design reviews
Communication, Navigation, Surveillance/Air Traffic Management (CNS/ATM) experience
Performance Based Navigation (PBN) experience and attaining PBN certification
Required Navigation Performance (RNP)/ Area Navigation (RNAV) certification experience
Experience designing to RTCA DO-178 software standard for RNP RNAV certification
Experience designing to RTCA DO-254 hardware standard for airborne electronic systems
Experience designing to RTCA DO-200 standard for processing aeronautical data
Experience designing to RTCA DO-160 and MIL-STD-810 standards for environmental qualifications
Experience with MIL-STD-1553, ARINC 429 and Ethernet communication protocols
Experience with Earned Value Management
Experience with supplier/subcontract management
Experience with scheduling engineering activities
Experience with Agile development

Responsibilities

Integration of aircraft cockpit systems and components including Flight Management Computer (FMC), Primary Flight Displays (PFDs), Control Display Units (CDUs), Fight Navigation and Guidance systems, Position, Navigation, Timing (PNT) equipment and other various avionics systems with the capability to support trade studies.
Requirements development, analysis, maturation and implementation
Document designs using detailed schematics, diagrams and specifications
Assist in the preparation and support of the verification of aircraft avionics and Prime Mission Equipment installations and aircraft certification documents.
Provide support for the development of system safety documents.
Technical management of program strategic partners and suppliers including development of supplier statement of work and requirements, review and analyze supplier design data, hardware/software acquisition, define functional test requirements including acceptance, qualification, and system integration, and support test execution.
Informal and formal testing of subsystem requirements in lab, with the ability to troubleshoot hardware avionics equipment in a lab environment.

Benefits

Relocation assistance may be available
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
a discretionary bonus
Annual bonuses
Long Term Incentives (for VP or Director positions)