Space Systems Engineer - TS/SCI Clearance

0909 SP - Orbital Space Systems; United States; On-site; USD 92,000 - 138,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Life and disability insurance

Savings plan

Company paid holidays and PTO

Job summary

Northrop Grumman's Space Sector is seeking an Engineer (Level 2) to join our team in Dulles or Chantilly, VA. This 100% onsite role supports Space Superiority and Warfighting programs, delivering technical content for milestones and critical data products.

Ideal candidates have a background in systems engineering, requirements and interface management, and mission planning, with scripting and modeling skills such as Python or MATLAB.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with 2 years of professional experience or Master’s degree with 0 years of professional experience.
• Active U.S. Government TS/SCI clearance at time of application, current and within scope.
• Experience in systems engineering to include architectural studies, technical baseline definition, requirements & interface management, hardware/software integration, and mission planning & execution.

Responsibilities

• Supporting major program milestones and readiness reviews by developing technical content and summarizing them into presentations for key stakeholders.
• Authoring and providing input to program data products and other vital deliverables.
• Working with mission partners to accurately model mission-level elements.
• Assessment of a vehicle’s day-in-the-life and creation of design reference missions (DRMs).
• Producing miscellaneous analysis, such as propellant budget analyses, on-orbit fuel requirements, RF link budgets, and mission lifetime estimates.
• Development of analysis tools as required.
• Requirements Management, including the decomposition of requirements from the Mission down to Subsystems.
• Interface Management, including the development of Interface Control Documentation.

Skills

Systems engineering

Requirements management

Interface management

Mission planning

Scripting languages

Model-based systems engineering

Python

MATLAB

STK

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field

Tools

STK

MATLAB

Python

Job description

Northrop Grumman's Space Sector is seeking an Engineer (Level 2) to join our team in Dulles or Chantilly, VA. This 100% onsite role supports Space Superiority and Warfighting programs, delivering technical content for milestones and critical data products.

Ideal candidates have a background in systems engineering, requirements and interface management, and mission planning, with scripting and modeling skills such as Python or MATLAB.