Senior Principal Data Scientist - Secret Clearance, Defense

Northrop Grumman Corp.; Magna (UT); On-site; USD 135,000 - 203,000; Full time

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Total Rewards package

Health insurance

Job summary

Northrop Grumman Corp. in Magna, UT is seeking a Sr. Principal Data Scientist – Level 4 to define the art of the possible from day one, applying reliability and data science to solid rocket motor hardware design, production, and sustainment.

This role collaborates with engineering, quality, operations, program management, and business management; requires strong statistical knowledge and a DoD Secret clearance; fielding impact across critical missions in a production environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Statistics, Data Science, Engineering or other quantitative field with 8 years of experience or Master’s with 6 years or PhD with 4 years
• Must have a current DoD Secret clearance at time of application
• Knowledge of solid rocket motor components, functions and manufacturing processes
• Experience with reliability, probabilistic and Bayesian uncertainty quantification methods
• Experience with RStudio, Statistica or other statistics software
• Ability to apply statistics in novel applications
• Excellent teamwork, organization and communication skills
• Entrepreneurial drive to identify opportunities and develop solutions

Responsibilities

• Partner with systems and design engineering to develop failure modes and effects and model reliability for the system
• Collaborate with process and quality to estimate manufacturing variability and SPC
• Support manufacturing defect reduction and improvement initiatives
• Develop data models for material properties used in design
• Analyze data from performance tests on solid rocket motor systems
• Maintain data for aging trends and support sustainment activities
• Develop and use predictive cost models for products and programs
• Develop technology roadmaps and tools

Skills

Statistics

Data science

Teamwork

Communication

Entrepreneurial drive

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Statistics/Data Science/Engineering

Master’s degree in Statistics/Data Science/Engineering

PhD (optional)

Tools

RStudio

Statistica

Job description

Northrop Grumman Corp. in Magna, UT is seeking a Sr. Principal Data Scientist – Level 4 to define the art of the possible from day one, applying reliability and data science to solid rocket motor hardware design, production, and sustainment.

This role collaborates with engineering, quality, operations, program management, and business management; requires strong statistical knowledge and a DoD Secret clearance; fielding impact across critical missions in a production environment.