Airframe Design for Survivability - NG Fellow 1

Northrop Grumman; Melbourne (FL); On-site; USD 189,000 - 329,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Northrop Grumman is seeking an Airframe Design for Survivability NG Fellow 1 to lead advanced survivability work onsite across multiple locations, including Melbourne, FL. The role requires delivering technical leadership, architecture, and program guidance for complex survivability challenges.

The candidate will drive design, modeling, and evaluation activities, mentor engineers, and engage with stakeholders to ensure producibility and mission effectiveness in survivability technology.

Qualifications

• Bachelors/Master’s/PhD in a STEM field with significant experience.
• Active DoD security clearance experience desired.
• Experience with survivability systems and aircraft design.

Responsibilities

• Serve as technical lead and advisor on survivability programs.
• Develop and mentor engineers in the Survivability discipline.
• Engage in independent review teams and lead as required.
• Collaborate with manufacturing to improve survivability processes.
• Provide strategic technical guidance to management and program leadership.
• Engage with partners to support future business opportunities.

Skills

Airframe design

Survivability analysis

RCS data analysis

Technical leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in STEM

Master’s or PhD preferred

Tools

Knowbell

Pioneer

SABER

Job description

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: Yes

CLEARANCE TYPE: Secret

TRAVEL: Yes, 25% of the Time

Description

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 Aeronautics Systems has an opening for Airframe Design for Survivability - NG Fellow 1 to join the team of qualified individuals on our Survivability Organization. This leadership role is located onsite in Redondo Beach, CA, Melbourne, FL, San Diego, CA or Oklahoma City, OK or Palmdale, CA.

This position is 100% onsite and cannot accommodate telecommute work. This position will work a 9/80 schedule, with every other Friday off. This position is contingent upon the candidate verification/obtaining final clearances and program access(es) within a reasonable period of time as determined by the company. The ideal candidate will provide vision and leadership in the conduct of complex Survivability analytical, developmental, design and demonstration / test assignments related to advanced Survivability technology development and integration for aircraft propulsion. Candidate must also have a proven track record with designs that are specification compliant and producible at scale.

Responsibilities

This role will serve as technical lead and consultant to various legacy and advanced programs, and Sector initiatives. Responsibilities of this role will include:

• Support multiple programs, IRAD/CRAD projects, and sector initiatives in a leadership or advisory role including the advancement of new technologies through design, integration, testing, and production
• Develop and maintain of the NGAS Survivability Airframe vision and develop a roadmap for Edge technologies
• Participate and occasionally lead independent review teams
• Special assignments to uncover and resolve complex challenges
• Develop and mentor the next generation of engineers in discipline. This includes the development of training material.
• Act as a thought leader for the Survivability community, working across sectors as required
• Advise multiple levels of management on technical research, applications and long-range business planning
• Engage and support the United States Department of War Survivability community to facilitate engagements and/or partnerships leading to future business capture opportunities

Candidate should have broad-based knowledge and experience in the following key areas:

• Have deep technical understanding of the predictive capabilities, input fidelity required to execute the predictions and subcomponent validation like material property measurements, subcomponent tests, or full-size representative test models needed to mitigate unacceptable program risk and ensure NGC maintains its credibility with the technical approach
• Communicate across the engineering disciplines and technology areas to integrate capabilities and communicate technical capabilities and analyses with internal stakeholders and external customers (government customers and company leadership).
• Sound understanding of Survivability design, materials and the tolerances required to achieve specific levels of performance in production vehicles
• Knowledge of survivability material characterization, performance and application in Survivability design
• Expert experience analyzing and explaining similarities and differences between predicted RCS data to measured RCS for full-scale component data, full-scale vehicle data and flight test data
• Experience with RCS data processing tools, such as Knowbell, Pioneer or SABER
• Experience in survivability component design including more than two major aircraft components
• Experience with Tier I, II, III and IV measurement tools and validation
• Knowledge of manufacturing best practices for Survivability materials and technologies

Our Leaders at Northrop Grumman live our values daily and encourage our teams to do the same. We do the right thing: upholding the highest ethical standards and facilitating a safe and respectful environment that attracts, retains, and inspires a diverse and engaged team. We do what we promise: holding yourself and others accountable to meet predictable and balanced results. We commit to shared success: operating as OneNG and removing barriers for our teams. Finally, We pioneer: setting a vision that shapes the future and inspires others.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelors, Master’s, and/or PhD in a relevant STEM degree and robust industry related experience; 20 years of experience with a BS or 18 years’ experience with an MS or PhD
• Must have significant experience with airframe design for Survivability including materials modeling, signature characterization, and the aircraft design process
• Must have extensive knowledge of aircraft contributors to survivability and the design trade space with aircraft and sensor performance
• Must have experience in verification and validation of survivability designs through full-scale vehicle and/or flight testing
• Must have experience working the adjacent disciplines in the airframe design process and ability to defend a survivability design posture
• Must have experience working with Manufacturing to improve the production process for survivability materials and technologies and ability to disposition and defend manufacturing requirements for survivability
• At minimum, an active U.S.Government Secret Clearance level is required to apply and to start the role, with the ability to obtain and maintain Special Program Access and Top Secret Clearance within a reasonable amount of time as determined by the Company to meet its business needs

Preferred Qualifications

• Extensive knowledge of NG survivability codes and tool suite
• Ability to effectively communicate the relevance and mission effectiveness of survivability technologies
• Extensive knowledge of industry signature tools and techniques for survivability testing
• Extensive knowledge of NG manufacturing processes
• Experience as part of an independent review team
• Experience with tiger team assignments to uncover or resolve complex challenges
• Significant experience in developing and mentoring engineers and technicians in discipline
• Experience working across industry to facilitate engagements and/or partnerships leading to future business capture opportunities or technological advancement
• Experience working in a SAP/SAR environment
• An active U.S. Government DoD Top-Secret (TS)/Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) clearance [TS/SCI]

Primary Level Salary Range: $189,400.00 - $328,900.00

The above salary range represents a general guideline; however, Northrop Grumman considers a number of factors when determining base salary offers such as the scope and responsibilities of the position and the candidate's experience, education, skills and current market conditions.

Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay. Annual bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions as well as allow employees to share in company results. Employees in Vice President or Director positions may be eligible for Long Term Incentives. In addition, Northrop Grumman provides a variety of benefits including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, savings plan, Company paid holidays and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business.

The application period for the job is estimated to be 20 days from the job posting date. However, this timeline may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates.

Northrop Grumman is an Equal Opportunity Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class. For our complete EEO and pay transparency statement, please visit http://www.northropgrumman.com/EEO. U.S. Citizenship is required for all positions with a government clearance and certain other restricted positions.