Lead Mission Assurance Engineer

Northrop Grumman; Sunnyvale, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 114,000 - 171,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Life and disability insurance

Savings plan

Paid holidays

PTO

Job summary

Northrop Grumman Corp. (JP) in Sunnyvale, CA is seeking a Principal Engineer Mission Assurance to lead quality and mission assurance across a production program.

This on-site role supports production planning, hardware execution, inspections, and delivery, with frequent collaboration with Program Management and engineering teams. The ideal candidate brings strong quality engineering and program-quality experience, excellent communication, and the ability to lead multidisciplinary teams through

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience applying quality engineering principles in production environments.
• Program quality experience coordinating with management and cross-functional teams.
• Experience interfacing with program management to communicate status, risks and recovery actions.
• Experience reviewing requirements and flow-downs in contracts and drawings.
• Experience with AS9100/ISO 9001 and GD&T is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Serve as QA/Mission Assurance focal point for an established production program.
• Define and monitor mission-assurance plans, processes, metrics and work products.
• Apply quality practices to production planning, hardware execution, inspection, acceptance and delivery.
• Lead root cause and corrective action activities; drive preventive actions.
• Develop and communicate quality metrics, risks and recovery actions to leadership and customers.
• Travel up to 25% to customer, supplier and other locations.

Skills

Quality engineering

Program quality

Problem solving

Root cause analysis

Communication skills

Leadership

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in STEM

Job description

Northrop Grumman Corp. (JP) in Sunnyvale, CA is seeking a Principal Engineer Mission Assurance to lead quality and mission assurance across a production program.

This on-site role supports production planning, hardware execution, inspections, and delivery, with frequent collaboration with Program Management and engineering teams. The ideal candidate brings strong quality engineering and program-quality experience, excellent communication, and the ability to lead multidisciplinary teams through