Staff Engineer Systems - Engineering Reachback
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 a Staff Systems Engineer (level 5) to serve as the Reachback Integrated Product Team (IPT) Lead within the Systems Engineering organization in Palmdale, CA. The selected candidate will lead a cross functional engineering team providing technical reachback support to the Test organization, ensuring alignment of engineering products with test objectives, schedule, and cost.
Requirements
- Bachelor of Science degree in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) discipline with 12 years of relevant military/professional experience; OR Master of Science degree in a STEM discipline with 10 years of relevant military/professional experience; OR PhD with 8 years of relevant military/professional experience.
- Must have an active U.S. Government Top Secret Clearance or higher (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.
- Experience leading cross functional technical teams of 10 or more individuals.
- Experience with project/program management practices, including: Control Account Management (CAM) and Earned Value Management (EVM), Risks–Issues–Opportunities (RIO) management, Project planning, scheduling, staffing, and coordination of technical work.
Nice To Haves
- Current, applicable SAP/SAR access.
- Experience working with external and geographically distributed teams to meet program objectives.
- Demonstrated ability to operate across multiple organizations, build alignment, and make timely decisions.
- Proven use of metrics to track performance to plan and manage recovery where needed.
- Experience leading multiple teams through technically complex, integrated deliveries (e.g., test events, major reviews, or system-level integrations).
Responsibilities
- Serve as Reachback IPT Lead and primary interface between the Test team and engineering functional organizations.
- Own budget, scope, and schedule for the IPT’s engineering work; apply CAM/EVM practices to manage performance.
- Act as technical authority for test related objectives within your scope, ensuring technical accuracy and compliance with program and regulatory requirements.
- Coordinate, prioritize, and track engineering reachback requests to provide timely resolution of technical issues and troubleshooting needs.
- Lead the IPT through changes to requirements, test plans, and procedures; assess impacts to cost, schedule, and technical performance and drive approval and documentation.
- Maintain regular communication with Test, Engineering Homeroom Organization, and other stakeholders; prepare concise updates, reports, and briefings for program reviews and technical interchange meetings.
- Use metrics to monitor IPT performance, demonstrate progress to commitments, and define/recover to plans when needed.
- Provide day to day leadership to a cross functional team of 10+ engineers, fostering collaboration, accountability, and high performance.
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
- discretionary bonus
- Annual bonuses
- Long Term Incentives (for VP or Director positions)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
