Staff Engineer Systems
About The Position
Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems has an opening for a Staff Systems Engineering to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals within our Systems Engineering organization. This role is located in Melbourne, FL. In this role, you will be a dynamic Systems Engineering (SE) leader to provide technical support to a high visibility capability upgrade program. You will orchestrate all SE disciplines—Safety, Requirements & Verification, Specialty Engineering, etc. —towards ensuring the program is scoped appropriately for system-level verification within schedule, cost, and performance objectives. This role demands a hands on technical expert with strong communication skills to coordinate with the USG towards building a robust and comprehensive verification program.
Requirements
- Must have a Bachelors degree in a STEM field and at least 12 years of relevant military / professional experience, OR a Master's Degree in a STEM field and at least 10 years of relevant military / professional experience, OR a PhD and at least 8 years of relevant military / professional experience
- Must have an active DoD Secret or higher clearance (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 with BOE development
- Experience briefing or leading technical reviews with USG Customers
Nice To Haves
- Advanced STEM degree
- Strong knowledge of lab- and system-level test planning and execution, system safety, requirements & verification, and specialty engineering domains
- Experience with IBM DOORS
- Leadership and team-lead experience
- Earned Value Management
- Prior experience with capability upgrade programs
Responsibilities
- Leadership of Verification Planning
- Direct day to day coordination across multidisciplinary boundaries and with USG counterparts.
- Ensure review deliverables are complete, technically sound, and aligned with program milestones.
- Proposal & Estimating Support
- Contribute technical expertise to long term effort proposals, cost estimates, and schedule forecasts.
- Requirements & Verification Management (DOORS)
- Ensure requirements are captured, traced, and verified throughout the lifecycle.
- Process Improvement
- Conduct periodic SE process reviews; identify bottlenecks and implement best practice enhancements.
- Lead continuous improvement initiatives (e.g., root cause analysis, lessons learned capture, tool integration).
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
Education Level
Ph.D. or professional degree
