Sentinel - Principal / Sr Principal Systems Engineer - 18977

Northrop Grumman•Roy, UT

2d•$98,400 - $184,200•Onsite

About The Position

Northrop Grumman Defense Systems is seeking a Principal or Senior Principal Systems Engineer to support the Sentinel Program in Roy, Utah. The program supports the Air Force’s sustainment, development, production, and deployment of hardware and system modifications for Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) Ground and Airborne Launch Control Systems, Launch Facilities, and associated infrastructure. The selected candidate will join a team modeling high-level Reliability, Availability, Maintainability, and Cost (RAM-C) processes across multiple campuses. The role focuses on Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) modeling and strategy selection for a large missile system, with opportunities to contribute to other reliability-related modeling and analysis efforts. The RCM team uses failure modes to model possible maintenance strategies and select the best strategy for the overall weapon system. The position performs technical planning, system integration, verification and validation, cost and risk, supportability, and effectiveness analyses across total systems. Work spans system concept, design, fabrication, test, installation, operation, maintenance, and disposal. The engineer converts customer or product requirements into system solutions within technical, schedule, and cost constraints, and conducts functional, timeline, and trade-study analyses, requirements allocation, and interface definition studies. The standard work schedule is 9/80: nine-hour days Monday through Thursday, with every other Friday off. Relocation assistance may be available. Travel is not required. An active U.S. Government DoD Secret clearance is required at application, and the selected candidate must be able to obtain and maintain SAP approval within a reasonable period.

Requirements

Principal level: Bachelor's degree in a STEM discipline from an accredited university and 5 years of experience, or 3 years with a master's degree, or 1 year with a Ph.D.
Senior Principal level: Bachelor's degree in a STEM discipline from an accredited university and 8 years of related experience, or 6 years with a master's degree, or 4 years with a Ph.D.
Must be a U.S. citizen with an active U.S. Government DoD Secret security clearance at application, with an investigation completed within the last 6 years.
Ability to obtain and maintain Special Access Program (SAP) approval within a reasonable period, as determined by the company.
At least 1 year of proficiency with reliability engineering tools such as ReliaSoft, MADe, or Opus, or similar tools.
At least 1 year of proficiency with data-handling scripting such as SQL, Azure, or Power BI, or similar tools.
At least 3 years of proficiency with engineering scripting such as Python, C++/C#, MATLAB, or VBA, or similar tools.
At least 3 years of demonstrated technical expertise in modeling, simulation, and analysis (MS&A) or Reliability, Availability, Maintainability, and Cost (RAM-C).
At least 3 years of demonstrated technical expertise in Systems Engineering, such as systems engineering V, systems integration, RvsC analysis, VV&A, or similar.
Knowledge of Agile development practices.
Ability to work with minimal direction, independently determine and develop technical objectives, and present work for high-level review.

Nice To Haves

Active U.S. Government DoD Top Secret security clearance at application, with an investigation completed within the last 6 years.
Bachelor's degree in engineering or a related technical discipline (STEM).
Experience with Agile Release Train (ART) or Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).
Experience with the Atlassian Tool Suite, including Jira and Confluence.
Advanced use of standard Microsoft Office products, including development tools.
Interest in working across engineering domains such as Systems Safety, Reliability, Availability, Maintainability, Integrated Logistics Support, Product Support, Digital Integration, and Sustainment Cost Modeling.
Experience with pathfinding or blank-page development efforts.
INCOSE certifications.
Knowledge of MIL-HBK-882E, MIL-STD-3034A, NAVAIR 00-25-403, or DoDM 4151.25.
Excellent interpersonal, communication, and organizational skills.
Experience modeling large systems and finding useful data and trends in large data sets.
Maintenance or logistics background.
Experience with Air Force or military maintenance operations.

Responsibilities

Perform technical planning, system integration, verification and validation, cost and risk, supportability, and effectiveness analyses for total systems.
Conduct analyses across system concept, design, fabrication, test, installation, operation, maintenance, and disposal.
Convert customer or product requirements into total-system solutions that account for technical, schedule, and cost constraints.
Perform functional analysis, timeline analysis, detailed trade studies, requirements allocation, and interface definition studies to translate customer requirements into hardware and software specifications.
Model Reliability Centered Maintenance strategies using failure modes and support selection of the best strategy for the weapon system.
Support high-level RAM-C modeling across multiple campuses and other reliability-related modeling and analysis efforts.
Work independently with minimal direction to determine and develop technical objectives, then present completed work for high-level review.