NATO Principal or Sr. Principal System Engineer
About The Position
Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems has an opening for a Principal / Senior Principal Systems Engineer to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals within our Systems Engineering organization. This role is located in Rancho Bernardo, CA. In this role, you will fill the role of System Engineer for the NATO Business Area. You will be responsible for leading a diverse engineering team to provide imaginative, technical solutions to a wide range of difficult problems. You will be working across the entire spectrum of the Systems Engineering V-Model, and will support SE disciplines including requirements development, use case development, capability (hardware and software) development, integration planning, lab integration, test planning, formal test, and verification.
Requirements
- At a Principal Level: Must have a 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
- At a Senior Principal Level: Must have a Bachelors of Science degree in a STEM field and at least 8 years of relevant military / professional experience, OR a Master's Degree in a STEM field and at least 6 years of relevant military / professional experience, OR a PhD and at least 4 years of relevant military / professional experience
- Must have an active US Government 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.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with RQ-4 air vehicle, ground segment, sensor payloads, COMMS and support equipment
- Experience with International Customers
- Experience managing Technical Baselines (Functional and Allocated Baselines)
- Experience conducting end to end system integration, verification and validation
Responsibilities
- Work closely with customers and end users to ensure system requirements, design, risks, and limitations are understood, communicated, and accepted
- Execute systems engineering functions to maintain the technical baseline, and to ensure the baseline reflects a cohesive system solution
- Support the development and validation of system level models used for concept development, design, verification, and validation
- Leverage your experience supporting Fielded Aircraft Systems, UAV systems, and the full lifecycle of Systems Engineering, including design reviews, requirements decomposition, test planning, and requirements verification
- Ability to plan, execute a schedule and lead a team towards those goals
- Clearly define end user needs and desired capabilities
- Provide support and deliverables for successful milestone reviews (e.g. SRR, SFR, PDR, CDR, FCA)
- Presentation skills to effectively provide status to internal executive management and customers
Benefits
- Relocation assistance may be available
- 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
- Annual bonuses
- Long Term Incentives (for VP or Director positions)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
