Sr. Principal Systems Engineer

Northrop Grumman

68d • $118,600 - $178,000

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 Space Systems is seeking a Sr. Principal Systems Engineer to support the Test & Evaluation (T&E) Integrated Product Team (IPT) for the Glide Phase Interceptor (GPI) program. The T&E IPT has whole landscape ownership of program test campaign through Initial Operational Capability (IOC). T&E IPT is accountable to ensure ground and flight test hardware is ready for test execution and post test data certification. This position is 100% on site in Chandler, AZ.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in a STEM discipline (Science, Technology, Engineering or Math) with 8 years of related engineering experience; OR a Master’s degree in STEM with 6 years of related engineering experience; OR a PhD with 4 years of related engineering experience.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government DoD issued Secret Security clearance.
• Ability to work on-site as most work is performed in a closed area.
• Ability and willingness to travel up to 10% of the time.
• General awareness of systems engineering development life cycle (from concepts through production/sustainment).
• Foundational understanding of Systems Engineering.
• Meticulous attention to detail with the ability to be part of an integrated team tasked with defining the operational, physical, functional, and technical architecture necessary to describe the vision and desired capabilities of the GPI program effort.
• General awareness of how Systems Test & Evaluation fits into the Systems Engineering of major systems.
• Ability to communicate technical information clearly to both technical and nontechnical personnel.

Nice To Haves

• An Active in-scope U.S. Government DoD issued Secret security clearance, or higher.
• Systems Engineering background with test experience.
• Willingness and some experience to work fast paced development programs.
• MBSE SysML or Cameo Experience a plus.
• Experience creating testing and maturation roadmaps to achieve a demonstrated TRL level.
• Experience in the development of test requirements and constraints to ensure test resources are necessary and sufficient to meet program testing requirements.

Responsibilities

• Work with the T&E IPT Lead to compile data products that support GPI’s execution of the TMRR path to IOC.
• Assist in major program artifacts such as the Verification Execution Plan (VEP), Test Execution Plan (TEP), Analysis Execution Plan (AEP), Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) input, and Hardware Utilization Matrix (HUM).
• Lead planning and execution of tracing requirements to verification events including performance model anchoring in support of integrated system performance path to IOC.
• Bridge the Systems Engineering Integration & Test (SEIT) Verification and Validation (V&V) 'V' process through test execution.
• Work closely in support of deriving All Up Round (AUR) Environments and helping architect path to efficient Qualification / Environmental Navy Certification path to IOC.
• Lead the development of test requirements and constraints to ensure test resources are necessary and sufficient to meet program testing requirements.
• Lead the establishment test strategies and use cases to ensure in development that the system is designed correctly and in production the system is produced correctly.

Benefits

• Health insurance coverage
• Life and disability insurance
• Savings plan
• Company paid holidays
• Paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business

What This Job Offers

• Education Level: Bachelor's degree