Principal / Senior Principal Systems Engineer
About The Position
Northrop Grumman Missions Systems is seeking a skilled Systems Engineer with a strong understanding of requirements development, test case development, and verification and validation of those requirements. The ideal candidate should be proficient with requirements technical baseline management via IBM Rational DOORS, and act as the technical lead and point of contact to the Chief Engineer and customer. 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.
Requirements
- Bachelors degree in STEM discipline with 5+ years of engineering experience; Master's degree in STEM discipline with 3+ years of engineering experience; PhD in STEM discipline with 1+ years of engineering experience (Principal Systems Engineer)
- Bachelors degree in STEM discipline with 8+ years of engineering experience; Master's degree in STEM discipline with 6+ years of engineering experience; PhD in STEM discipline with 4+ years of engineering experience (Senior Principal Systems Engineer)
- Experience with IBM Rational DOORS
- Technical baseline management
- Writing and updating DOORS requirements
- Decomposing and deriving requirements based on customer specifications
- Software requirements development
- Requirements development
- Test Case development
- Verification and Validation, i.e. experience running tests and documenting results
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Demonstrated experience presenting to internal and external stakeholders
- Demonstrated experience communicating technical information, e.g. requirements updates, test plans, integration test plans, etc…
- Demonstrated Experience supporting test investigations and debugging efforts
- Collaborating with cross-functional teams
- A current/active U.S. Government Secret clearance is required
- Ability to work onsite full-time at Woodland Hills, CA
Nice To Haves
- Experience with the following interfaces: MIL-STD-1553, ARINC-429, Ethernet
- Experience working in an Agile engineering team
- Experience with JIRA
- Systems Engineering experience on large, complex systems
- Lab and system integration experience
- Demonstrated experience with Model Based Systems Engineering and Cameo modeling (or equivalent)
- Experience with ClearQuest / ClearCase
Responsibilities
- Work with a broad customer base to identify unique requirements, flow the requirements into design documentation, and work with a diverse team to build and test those requirements.
- Present to customers on the capabilities of current products, performance analyses, design information, and requirements verification methods.
- Generate, review, and manage multiple requirements sets that cover all aspects of both performance and nonperformance including mechanical interfaces, electrical interfaces, data requirements, environmental requirements, and reliability.
- Awareness and responsiveness to contract milestones and deliverables.
- Lead an Agile team to ensure the designs are sufficient to meet the system requirements.
- Work with various Agile teams to ensure all requirements are verified through inspection, analysis, demonstration, or test often by providing test and data reduction scripts.
- Provide test directions to ensure production tests and troubleshooting tests are executed correctly and resulting data conforms to requirements.
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
