Systems Engineer - Level 2 or 3

Northrop Grumman•Boulder, CO

2d•$91,800 - $171,000•Onsite

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. Northrop Grumman Space Systems, Multi-Domain Operations, and Missile Defense Integration Business Unit (BU) Advanced Programs Group has an exciting career opportunity for a Systems Engineer – Level 2 or 3 to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals. We are working on an autonomous distributed tracking system - Join our high performing software team as the primary systems engineer and come make history with us! This job is in Boulder, CO – Boulder is nestled in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, and only 25 miles from downtown Denver. Due to the nature of our work, full-time in-person work is required. Position Overview: As a Systems Engineer or Principal Systems Engineer on this program, the role will focus on providing systems engineering support directly to both the Chief Architect and Program Manager of the program. Tasking will touch on all parts of the overall systems engineering lifecycle including planning, design, integration, and verification. This role requires a highly collaborative individual who has strong verbal and written communication skills. Technical writing experience and great attention to detail in developing customer-facing presentations and documentation will be a big component of this role.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) discipline from an accredited university and 2 years of related work experience, or a Master's Degree in STEM and 0-2 years of related work experience (for Level 2).
Bachelor’s Degree in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) discipline from an accredited university and 5 years of related work experience, or a Master's Degree in STEM and 3 years of related work experience, or a PhD. and 1 year of related work experience (for Level 3).
Applicants must have a current active in-scope U.S. Government issued Secret security clearance at the time of application which is required to start.

Nice To Haves

Experience with SDA’s PWSA
Experience with OPIR systems
Experience with embedded systems
Experience working on systems engineer for software products specifically
Experience with Cameo or other MBSE modeling tools
Experience with Agile; Experience with Atlassian tools (Jira and Confluence) or similar agile workflow environments.
Prior experience developing presentations for IDRs, PMRs, or other large customer facing events
Prior experience with modeling and simulation software
Familiarity with OPIR data and software development and analysis of specialized combat systems that are providing advanced algorithms to improve tracking, prediction, and discrimination capabilities for emerging threats worldwide
Experience collaborating with engineering disciplines and stakeholders across IPTs

Responsibilities

Creating design documentation, maintain ICDs, ATBs, CONOP diagrams, requirements and mapping/creation of test requirements and documentation of results.
Generating systems engineering diagrams and other elements in confluence/PPT that will be used to brief current status in programmatic events.
This may include milestone roadmaps, risk and opportunity tracking, and other various tasking to support the software engineering team to aid in clarifying design, deployment, and launch of the software products.
Collaborating with graphics teams to depict how the system works, and developing media to help with showing our current and future capabilities.
Leveraging modeling and simulation software to build depictions of how the system works.