Sr Staff Engineer Systems
About The Position
Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems is hiring a Sr Staff Engineer to lead Systems Engineering and Integration (SE&I) for the RQ-4 NATO Final Infrastructure program in San Diego, California. The role holds overall responsibility for SE&I execution and reports directly to the RQ-4 NATO Systems Engineering Lead. The engineer will work closely with the program team and engineering functions to ensure the system meets performance requirements and capabilities while managing its technical baseline. The position leads a multidisciplinary SE&I organization and oversees the cost, schedule, technical baseline, requirements development and verification, risk management, milestone reviews, integration, and technical planning. It also involves extensive coordination with program management, customers, and subcontractors, and communicating program status to executive management and customers.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in a STEM field and at least 14 years of professional or military experience; or a master's degree in a STEM field and at least 12 years of relevant professional or military experience; or a Ph.D. and at least 10 years of relevant professional or military experience.
- Experience leading milestone reviews such as SRR, PDR, CDR, and FCA.
- Experience managing technical baselines, including functional and allocated baselines.
- Requirements verification and validation experience.
- Experience leading a team of 10 or more people in a technical environment.
- Active DoD Secret or higher clearance, with a background investigation completed within the last six years or current enrollment in Continuous Evaluation.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with NATO customers.
- Experience with NATO operations.
- Experience with NATO ground segment architecture.
- Experience with modern ground segment architecture and design.
- Functional Configuration Audit (FCA) experience.
- Experience in Tasking, Collecting, Planning, Exploitation, and Dissemination (TCPED).
- DOORS experience, particularly requirements management and metrics generation.
- Experience with Integrated Functional Capability planning and certification.
- Experience with interface control documents (ICDs).
- Experience developing proposals.
- Experience leading technical development efforts under a Firm Fixed Price contract structure.
- Experience generating Use Cases according to SYSML/UML standards, understanding OV-1 through SV-4 diagrams, and knowledge of DODAF architecture.
- Experience managing suppliers.
- Experience in Agile development.
- Active DoD Top Secret clearance with current SCI.
Responsibilities
- Manage and lead SE&I engineers and managers across IFC, R&V, Architecture, Integration, Specialty, Mission Engineering, and Integrated Functional Capability disciplines.
- Oversee Systems Engineering execution of cost, schedule, and the technical baseline for the program.
- Coordinate with program management, customer counterparts, and subcontractors.
- Lead milestone reviews, including SRR, SFR, PDR, CDR, and FCA.
- Lead requirements definition, decomposition, allocation, and final verification across a complex system.
- Lead a multidisciplinary team in translating customer CONOPs, Performance Specifications, and Use Cases/OpsCon scenarios into verifiable System- and Segment-Level requirements.
- Perform risk and opportunity management.
- Lead and prepare proposals and baseline planning for new activities.
- Use Agile methodologies to enable rapid capability insertion and reduce time to field.
- Implement tools, technologies, and procedures to improve integration efficiency.
- Tailor requirements and verification processes to the program's size, scope, and complexity.
- Define and maintain standard requirements and verification products and processes, and ensure their appropriate use across programs.
- Use Integrated Functional Capability planning and certification processes.
- Use Defect Management, Defect Review Board, and Content Inclusion Review Board processes to maintain the system technical baseline.
- Oversee appropriate implementation of below-Segment-level requirements within other IPTs.
- Present status effectively to internal executive management and customers.
Benefits
- Health insurance coverage.
- Life and disability insurance.
- Savings plan.
- Company-paid holidays.
- Paid time off for vacation and/or personal business.
- Employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus, depending on the position.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
