Staff Engineer Systems - Development Lead

Northrop Grumman; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 177,000 - 265,600; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Life and disability insurance

Savings plan

Company paid holidays

PTO

Job summary

Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems in Rancho Bernardo, CA, is seeking a Staff Systems Engineer to lead a diverse SEI development team within the Global Hawk portfolio. You will guide requirements, architecture, verification, and integration across the SE V-Model for both hardware and software components.

You will coordinate with IPTs, ensure performance, risk management, and program milestones, and contribute to sustainment and technology refresh activities while interfacing with USAF

Qualifications

• Bachelor/Master/PhD in STEM with 8–12 years of relevant experience

Responsibilities

• Lead multi-disciplinary engineering teams to meet program objectives
• Collaborate with customers and end users to validate requirements and risk
• Maintain the technical baseline and ensure cohesive system solutions
• Define roadmaps for future technology integration
• Capture stakeholder needs and translate into actionable requirements
• Develop and validate models for concept development, design, and verification
• Plan, execute schedules, and guide teams toward milestones
• Leverage experience with UAV/ground segment architectures and mission payloads

Skills

Leadership

Systems engineering

Requirements development

IPT coordination

Technical baseline management

Problem solving

Education

BS in STEM

MS in STEM

PhD in STEM

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Bitbucket

Job description

Overview

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: Yes

CLEARANCE TYPE: Interim Secret

TRAVEL: Yes, 10% 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 a Staff Systems Engineer to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals within our Systems Engineering organization. This role is located in Rancho Bernardo, CA at the Autonomous Design Center of Excellence in San Diego.

In this role, you will fill the role of Global Hawk SEI Development Lead for the Systems Engineering IPT. You will be responsible for leading a diverse engineering design teams to provide imaginative, technical solutions to a wide range of difficult problems across the USAF customers Global Hawk portfolio. You\'ll be working across the entire spectrum of the Systems Engineering V-Model, and will lead SE disciplines including requirements development, use case development, capability (hardware and software) development, integration planning, lab integration, test planning, formal test, and verification including but not limited to Global Hawk system refreshes and continued sustainment.

You\'ll also be expected to lead tasking and provide direction in establishment and management of the technical baseline including Integrated Functional Capability (IFC) development and technical configuration and change management.

Essential Functions

• Leading a multi-disciplinary team of engineers to execute to program objectives and meet technical criteria
• Work closely with customers and end users to ensure system requirements, design, risks, and limitations are understood, communicated, and accepted
• Lead and execute systems engineering functions to maintain the technical baseline, and to ensure the baseline reflects a cohesive system solution
• Support leadership to define and develop a roadmap for future technology integration
• Responsible for capturing and translating the intent of stakeholders’ mission needs
• Ensures the system architecture, operations concepts, and design are affordable, effective and responsive to customer needs and objectives
• Utilizes operational experience, architecture, and system knowledge to create innovative system solutions to address stakeholder mission needs
• Support the development and validation of system level models used for concept development, design, verification, and validation
• Ability to lead team and coordinate with engineering IPTs to minimize technical risk
• Leverage your experience supporting Fielded Aircraft Systems, UAV systems, and the full lifecycle of Systems Engineering, including design reviews, requirements decomposition, test planning, and requirements verification
• Leverage your experience with ground segment architecture and design and to take concepts and decompose that into executable requirement, architecture and design parameters
• Ability to plan, execute a schedule and lead a team towards those goals

Basic Qualifications

• Must have a Bachelor of Science degree in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Math) discipline and at least 12 years of relevant military / professional experience, or a Masters in a STEM field and at least 10 years of relevant military / professional experience, or a Ph.D. in a STEM field and at least 8 years of relevant military / professional experience.
• Must have the ability to obtain and maintain a DoD Secret clearance within a reasonable time as determined by business needs.
• Must have the ability to obtain and maintain Special Access Program (SAP) clearance within a reasonable time as determined by business needs.

Preferred Qualifications

• An active DoD Top Secret Clearance
• Exposure to IFC management and planning
• Experience in ICD development and integration
• Experience with hands on troubleshooting in SIL and operational environments
• Experience supporting Fielded Aircraft Systems
• Experience with UAV systems
• Experience in full lifecycle of Systems Engineering, including design reviews, requirements decomposition, test planning, and requirements verification
• Experience with ground segment architecture and design
• Experience to take concepts and decompose that into executable requirement, architecture and design parameters
• Ability to plan, execute a schedule and lead a team towards those goals
• Experience with RQ-4 air vehicle, ground segment, sensor payloads, and support equipment
• Posses a detailed understanding of external dependencies on the system and provide context of how the system contributes to the broader system-of-systems of mission architecture, including limitations, constraints, interfaces, and data flows.
• Posses a detailed technical understanding of the entire system design, functionality, and performance, including mission payloads, communications & networking, air vehicle, and ground segment
• Experience in performing operational utility assessments to assess operations, data flow, mission performance and technical risk to inform requirements and design concept development
• Experience in collecting and analyzing operational mission data to evaluate mission effectiveness and recommend improvements to system design, architecture and system operations concept
• Working knowledge of Atlassian tools (Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket)

Primary Level Salary Range: $177,000.00 - $265,600.00

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.