Systems Engineer - Triton (Level 2 or Level 3)

Northrop GrummanSan Diego, CA
$91,800 - $171,000Onsite

About The Position

Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems sector is seeking a Systems Engineer Level 2 or Level 3 for the Triton program in Rancho Bernardo, CA. In this role, you will be responsible for supporting diverse engineering design teams to provide imaginative, technical solutions to a wide range of difficult problems within the Core Systems Engineering team on the Triton Enterprise. This includes scope across the entire spectrum of the Systems Engineering V-Model. You will be executing system integration tasking across the entire lifecycle of a system and integrating new capabilities on the MQ-4C Triton platform. This role will need your ability to support SE disciplines including requirements development, use case development, capability (hardware and software) development, integration planning, lab integration, test planning, formal test, verification and fielded test and mission support. You'll also be expected to perform tasking in establishment and management of the technical baseline including Integrated Functional Capability (IFC) development and technical configuration and change management.

Requirements

  • Bachelors of Science degree in a STEM field and at least 2 years of relevant military / professional experience, OR a Master's Degree in a STEM field and at least some of relevant military / professional / academic experience (for Level 2)
  • Bachelors of Science degree in a STEM field and at least 5 years of relevant military / professional experience, OR a Master's Degree in a STEM field and at least 3 years of relevant military / professional experience, OR a PhD and at least 1 year of relevant military / professional / academic experience (for Level 3)
  • Active US Government Secret or higher clearance (with a background investigation completed within the last 6 years or currently enrolled into Continuous Evaluation)

Nice To Haves

  • Familiarity with Systems Engineering V model and Design processes
  • Familiarity with TeamCenter PLC and JIRA/Confluence
  • Experience with IFC Development and Management
  • Experience performing lab integration of complex technical capabilities
  • Familiarity with requirements decomposition and verification campaigns

Responsibilities

  • Support cross-IPT development of system level requirements and use cases
  • Implement requirements verification methodology and traceability
  • Support development of interface definitions and integration plans
  • Conduct formal integration and support capabilities based system level testing of fully integrated complex software and hardware subsystems
  • Evaluate integration and test anomalies and assist disposition and correction of issues as found
  • Perform requirements verification and selloff
  • Provide support to flight test and fielded assets
  • Manage configuration of developmental and production systems
  • Development of capability roadmaps within specified capability areas

Benefits

  • health insurance coverage
  • life and disability insurance
  • savings plan
  • Company paid holidays
  • paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business
  • overtime
  • shift differential
  • discretionary bonus
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