Senior Mission Integration & Innovation Engineering Leader

Northrop Grumman; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Northrop Grumman seeks an innovative, mission-driven technical leader to establish and lead the Mission Integration & Solution Engineering. The Manager Innovation Engineering 3 role connects complex operational challenges with advanced engineering capabilities to identify unmet mission needs and accelerate delivery of mission-relevant capabilities.

The ideal candidate combines exceptional technical depth, strong customer acumen, and entrepreneurial leadership.

Qualifications

• Active DoD Secret clearance.
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Systems Engineering, or a related technical discipline, with progressively responsible technical and/or engineering leadership experience; minimum 8 years relevant experience.
• Demonstrated success developing technical solutions for complex systems or mission-critical applications.
• Demonstrated software engineering leadership experience and success.
• Broad technical expertise in systems engineering, software-intensive systems, solution architecture, system integration or related disciplines.
• Proven ability to engage senior technical customers, understand complex challenges, and collaboratively develop credible engineering solutions.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary technical teams, engineering initiatives, or cross-functional development efforts.
• Strong technical communications and interpersonal skills, including the ability to communicate effectively with senior customers, engineers, program leadership, and operational stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to operate effectively in ambiguous, rapidly evolving environment and translate emerging needs into actionable engineering approaches.
• Ability to travel up to 75%.

Responsibilities

• Lead collaborative technical discussions with customers and engineering teams, translating operational needs into viable technical concepts, architectures, and engineering approaches.
• Build trusted relationships with government customers, military operators, and technical stakeholders; identify needs and ensure solutions address real-world operational requirements.
• Establish and lead a high‑performance mission integration and solution engineering capability; develop practices, foster collaboration, and recruit/mentor engineering talent.
• Identify opportunities to apply emerging technologies and modern engineering practices to mission challenges; champion rapid experimentation and practical innovation.
• Partner across program and engineering organizations to connect customer needs with technical capabilities, and facilitate transition of solutions into execution.

Job description

Northrop Grumman seeks an innovative, mission-driven technical leader to establish and lead the Mission Integration & Solution Engineering. The Manager Innovation Engineering 3 role connects complex operational challenges with advanced engineering capabilities to identify unmet mission needs and accelerate delivery of mission-relevant capabilities.

The ideal candidate combines exceptional technical depth, strong customer acumen, and entrepreneurial leadership.