Systems Engineer 2/3
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. The Central Region Systems Engineering organization within the Northrop Grumman Space Systems pushes the boundaries of innovation, redefines engineering capabilities, and drives advances in various sciences. Our team is chartered with providing the skills, innovative technologies to develop, design, produce and sustain optimized product lines across the sector while providing a decisive advantage to the warfighter. Come be a part of our mission. Northrop Grumman Space Systems (NGSP) is looking for you to join our team as a Systems Engineer 2/3 based out of Aurora, CO. Position Overview: Performs system integration, verification and validation, and supportability and effectiveness analyses for total systems. Ensures the logical and systematic conversion of customer or product requirements into total systems solutions that acknowledge technical, schedule, and cost constraints. Performs functional analysis, timeline analysis, detailed trade studies, requirements allocation, and interface definition studies to translate customer requirements into hardware and software specifications. This role can travel approximately 20% of the time to OCONUS locations with durations lasting approximately 1-2 weeks. This position requires being onsite and does not support remote or hybrid work. This requisition may be filled at a higher job grade based on the qualifications listed below. This requisition may be filled as either a level 2 or level 3.
Requirements
- Must have an active U.S. Government DoD Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) security clearance at the time of application
- Bachelor's degree in a STEM discipline with 2 years of relevant experience; 0 years of relevant experience with a master’s degree (for Level 2)
- Bachelor's degree in a STEM discipline with 5 years of relevant experience; 3 years of relevant experience with a master’s degree; 1 year of relevant experience with a PhD (for Level 3)
- Experience with development of test plans, procedures, and reports (functional testing and checkout)
- Must have experience with Linux and Windows based systems
- Must have experience with software installations utilizing docker
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite - Project, PowerPoint, Excel, Word
- Experience working with the Atlassian Suite of tools (Confluence, Jira)
- Understanding of entire product lifecycle, modeling and engineering best practices
- Must have the ability to travel to OCONUS for 7 to 14 day increments (up to 20% annually)
Nice To Haves
- Experience in integration and test of ground station systems to include antenna and RF knowledge
- Experience in software installations utilizing Kubernetes
Responsibilities
- Performs system integration, verification and validation, and supportability and effectiveness analyses for total systems.
- Ensures the logical and systematic conversion of customer or product requirements into total systems solutions that acknowledge technical, schedule, and cost constraints.
- Performs functional analysis, timeline analysis, detailed trade studies, requirements allocation, and interface definition studies to translate customer requirements into hardware and software specifications.
- Ensures the logical and systematic conversion of customer or product requirements into total systems solutions that acknowledge technical, schedule, and cost constraints.
- Experience with data collection/instrumentation methods
- Experience in troubleshooting anomalous hardware and software
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
- a discretionary bonus
- Annual bonuses
- Long Term Incentives (for Vice President or Director positions)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
