Sr. Principal Systems Engineer - LTC Design / Architecture / Integration

Northrop GrummanSan Diego, CA
$142,200 - $213,400Onsite

About The Position

Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems has an opening for a Sr. Principal Systems Engineer - LTC Design, Architecture, and Integration to join their team of qualified, diverse individuals within the Systems Engineering organization. This role is located in Rancho Bernardo, CA. In this role, you will fill the role of Global Hawk SEI Long Term Comms (LTC) Design, Architecture, and Integration Systems Engineer for the Foreign Military Sales (FMS) Business Area. You will be responsible for leading a diverse engineering team to provide imaginative, technical solutions to a wide range of difficult problems across the FMS customers' Global Hawk portfolio. You'll be working across the entire spectrum of the Systems Engineering V-Model, and will support SE disciplines including requirements development, use case development, capability (hardware and software) development, integration planning, lab integration, test planning, formal test, and verification.

Requirements

  • 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 previous DOORS experience with requirements management
  • Must have previous experience managing Technical Baselines (Functional and Allocated Baselines)
  • Must have experience with integration and interfaces ICDs

Nice To Haves

  • Experience with RQ-4 air vehicle, ground segment, sensor payloads, COMMS and support equipment
  • Experience with FMS customers
  • Experience with FMS operations
  • Experience with FMS architecture
  • Experience with MBSE
  • Requirements verification and validation experience including generating Requirements Verification Plans (RVPs), generating Requirements Verification Reports (RVRs), verification sell-off. Preferred Functional Configuration Audit (FCA) experience.
  • Experience with Use Case generation
  • Experience as Segment-Level Systems Engineer
  • Active TS/SCI
  • MS degree in STEM field

Responsibilities

  • Work closely with customers and end users to ensure system requirements, design, risks, and limitations are understood, communicated, and accepted
  • Execute systems engineering functions to maintain the technical baseline, and to ensure the baseline reflects a cohesive system solution
  • Responsible for capturing and translating the intent of stakeholders’ mission needs and objectives
  • Utilizes operational experience, architecture, and system knowledge to create innovative system solutions to address stakeholder mission needs
  • Support the development and validation of system level models used for concept development, design, verification, and validation
  • Leverage your experience supporting Fielded Aircraft Systems, UAV systems, and the full lifecycle of Systems Engineering, including design reviews, requirements decomposition, test planning, and requirements verification
  • Ability to plan, execute a schedule and lead a team towards those goals
  • Clearly define end user needs and desired capabilities
  • Define Use Cases into development lifecycle to define system requirements and architecture
  • Utilize operational experience, architecture, and system knowledge to define solutions for stakeholder mission needs
  • Support the development and validation of system level models used for concept development, design, verification, and validation
  • Provide support and deliverables for successful milestone reviews (e.g. SRR, SFR, PDR, CDR, FCA)
  • Presentation skills to effectively provide status to internal executive management and customers

Benefits

  • Relocation assistance may be available
  • health insurance coverage
  • life and disability insurance
  • savings plan
  • Company paid holidays
  • 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)
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