Staff Engineer Systems - Hardware Integration Lead - 19392

Northrop Grumman•Huntsville, AL

4d•$169,000 - $253,600•Onsite

About The Position

Northrop Grumman Defense Systems is seeking a Staff Systems Engineer - HW Integration Lead in Huntsville, Alabama. The ideal candidate is a team player; but also, a strong independent contributor with strong leadership skills, demonstrated problem-solving skills, excellent communication skills, as well as interpersonal and organizational skills and a proactive, detail-oriented approach. This role involves leading the SLCM-N hardware integration during the Technology Maturation and Risk Reduction (TMRR) phase, providing technical leadership for complex, shipboard hardware assemblies. The position requires technical planning, requirements development, allocation, and traceability for integrated electromechanical assemblies, ensuring alignment with customer, weapon system, and interface requirements. It also involves overseeing verification and validation strategy development, performing system integration and hardware–software integration planning and execution, and driving technical rigor in various engineering analyses. Collaboration with cross-functional teams is essential to ensure designs are producible, testable, and supportable. The role also includes reviewing systems engineering artifacts and providing subject matter expertise, guidance, and mentorship to other engineers.

Requirements

Bachelors degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) discipline from an accredited university and 12 years of relevant experience, OR a Masters degree and 10 years of relevant experience, OR a PhD and 8 years of relevant experience.
Must be a US Citizen with an active DoD Secret Clearance, at time of application, current and within scope, with an investigation date within the last 6 years
Must have the ability to obtain and maintain Top Secret Clearance and Special Access Program (SAP) approval within a reasonable period of time, as determined by the company to meet its business needs
Experience applying systems engineering processes across the full lifecycle (concept through test and integration) for complex hardware-intensive or weapon systems, including requirements development, decomposition, and verification.
Experience in conceptual design and development including rapid prototyping and testing to support fast-paced missile development.

Nice To Haves

Active DoD Top Secret Clearance
Electromechanical system design and development experience, including support to manufacturing, integration, and test of complex hardware assemblies.
Demonstrated ability to lead design teams on fast-paced development and prototyping efforts.
Strong communication skills (written and oral) and the ability to convey critical thinking to others in a way that improves their performance and product development.
Multidisciplined technical breadth across systems, hardware, software, and specialty engineering (e.g., reliability, safety, logistics) for complex defense systems.

Responsibilities

Lead the SLCM-N hardware integration during the Technology Maturation and Risk Reduction (TMRR) phase, providing technical leadership for complex, shipboard hardware assemblies.
Lead technical planning, requirements development, allocation, and traceability for integrated electromechanical assemblies, ensuring alignment with customer, weapon system, and interface requirements.
Review model-based systems engineering (MBSE) artifacts in Cameo (e.g., system/subsystem behavioral and structural models, interface definitions) to ensure alignment with technical baseline.
Oversee verification and validation strategy development, including verification methods, test plans, procedures, and acceptance criteria for integrated hardware assemblies.
Perform system integration and hardware–software integration planning and execution, including support to lab integration, troubleshooting, anomaly resolution, and configuration control.
Drive technical rigor in completion and development of functional analysis, trade studies, risk and opportunity assessments, and impact analyses to support design decisions.
Collaborate with cross-functional IPTs (hardware, software, manufacturing, test, operations, logistics, specialty engineering) to ensure designs are producible, testable, and supportable across the system lifecycle.
Review systems engineering artifacts (e.g., theory of operations, interface control documents, assembly description documents, installation and integration documents) for assigned hardware products.
Provide subject matter expertise of the technical baseline, providing guidance to hardware design responsible engineers and represent the program in internal and external senior-level technical reviews.
Mentor and provide technical guidance to early-career engineers in engineering best practices.