GNC Engineering Mgr 2: Weapons Prime Strategic Initiative (Secret) Chandler

Northrop Grumman • Chandler, AZ

8d • $139,100 - $208,700 • Onsite

About The Position

Northrop Grumman’s Space Sector is hiring a first-line engineering leader for its Weapons Prime Strategic Initiative in Chandler, Arizona. The manager will lead approximately 8–20 GN&C engineers and own workforce health and execution across GPI, Strike Weapons, SBI, and related priorities, while building technical depth, integrated delivery, and leadership capacity. The position is 100% onsite and follows a 9/80 schedule, with every other Friday off. Travel is 10% of the time, and relocation assistance may be available.

The role provides leadership for high-consequence, missile-based GN&C delivery across multiple programs, products, or work streams. It includes workforce and performance management, senior technical oversight of GN&C development and verification, management of technical and execution risks, and coordination across engineering and program functions. The position requires an active U.S. Government Secret clearance at application; continued employment is contingent on obtaining final clearances and program access within a reasonable period.

The salary range is $139,100–$208,700. Employees may also be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus. The company describes its benefits as including health insurance, life and disability insurance, a savings plan, company-paid holidays, and paid time off.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree and 8 years of professional experience, or master’s degree and 6 years of professional experience; an additional 4 or more years of experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
• Active U.S. Government Secret security clearance at the time of application, current and within scope.
• Demonstrated success managing leaders and/or multiple engineering teams, with accountability for workforce execution, staffing, performance, development, and delivery outcomes.
• Professional GN&C experience for missile-based systems, including meaningful depth in guidance, autopilot/control, and tracking or state estimation.
• Ability to obtain final clearances and program access within a reasonable period, as determined by the company.
• U.S. citizenship is required for positions requiring a government clearance.

Nice To Haves

• Experience leading larger or more complex teams, organizations, or multiple work streams developing, analyzing, integrating, or verifying missile-based GN&C systems.
• Technical leadership in missile guidance algorithms, including midcourse, terminal, intercept, trajectory-shaping, and/or target-engagement guidance.
• Technical depth in missile autopilot and control-law design, analysis, and verification, including stability, robustness, gain scheduling, actuator dynamics, vehicle dynamics, and flight-software integration.
• Experience with seeker tracking and target-state estimation using infrared and/or radio-frequency sensor systems, including sensor modeling, measurement processing, filtering, track formation and maintenance, and uncertainty characterization.
• Experience leading navigation modeling and simulation, sensor and algorithm performance assessment, mission analysis, and verification strategy development.
• Experience leading technical integration across flight software, digital-engineering environments, hardware/test organizations, and verification campaigns.
• Experience supporting advanced weapons, tactical strike systems, interceptor programs, missile-defense applications, and/or space-flight systems.
• Experience leading technical execution in low-altitude, high-speed, high-dynamic, glide-phase, degraded-GPS, or other challenging flight environments.
• Ability to communicate complex technical results, program risks, execution tradeoffs, and recommendations to senior engineering, program, and customer stakeholders.
• Leadership approach that supports ethical conduct, balanced results, partner satisfaction, employee growth, collaborative teams, customer trust, and adaptability.

Responsibilities

• Lead an engineering organization responsible for GN&C delivery across multiple programs, products, or work streams; establish operating priorities, staffing plans, and execution rhythms.
• Develop and lead managers, technical leads, and engineers through performance management, succession planning, mentoring, workforce development, recruiting, and retention.
• Provide senior technical leadership for missile-based GN&C system development, including guidance, autopilot/control, tracking, target-state estimation, modeling, simulation, integration, and verification.
• Own escalation, prioritization, resource tradeoffs, and execution recovery for complex technical, schedule, and workforce risks.
• Drive cross-functional integration among systems engineering, flight software, test, digital engineering, program management, and customer-facing technical teams.
• Ensure technical approaches, verification strategies, and program decisions reflect mission needs, system performance, and program risk.
• Represent GN&C capabilities, performance risks, and investment needs to senior engineering and program leadership.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Benefits

• Health insurance coverage
• Life insurance
• Disability insurance
• Savings plan
• Company-paid holidays
• Paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business
• Potential eligibility for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus

What This Job Offers

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