Staff Mission Integration Specialist

Northrop Grumman; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Northrop Grumman is seeking a seasoned Staff Mission Integration Specialist to bridge operational experience with advanced engineering. The role focuses on translating real-world mission challenges into actionable technical opportunities, engaging with military operators and government customers, and guiding solution development.

The ideal candidate has extensive military operational background, strong technical fluency, and excellent analytical and communication skills.

Qualifications

• Active DoD Secret clearance is required.
• Significant military operations experience or equivalent support to complex military missions.
• Strong ability to engage with military operators, government customers, and engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Provide authoritative operational insight to engineering teams to identify mission challenges and opportunities for innovation.
• Build trusted relationships with military operators and stakeholders to understand workflows and unmet needs.
• Collaborate with engineers to translate operational insights into viable technical concepts and priorities.
• Participate in demonstrations, experimentation, prototyping, and user evaluations to assess relevance and effectiveness of solutions.
• Evaluate emerging technologies from an operational perspective to improve mission performance.
• Work with cross-functional teams to incorporate operational feedback into development activities.
• Advocate for operator-centered engineering practices and contribute to iterative development approaches.

Skills

Active DoD Secret clearance

Military operations domain knowledge

Customer engagement

Analytical and communication skills

Travel readiness 75%

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience

12+ years relevant experience

Job description

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: No relocation assistance available

CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: Yes

CLEARANCE TYPE: Secret

TRAVEL: Yes, 75% 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 is seeking an experienced, technically proficient military operations professional to join Mission Integration & Solution Engineering within Northrop Grumman Innovation Engineering (NGINE).

The Staff Mission Integration Specialist role bridges operational experience and advanced engineering, ensuring that emerging technologies and technical solutions address real-world mission challenges. The successful candidate will leverage firsthand operational expertise, technical understanding, and strong customer engagement skills to identify unmet warfighter needs, evaluate emerging capabilities, and influence the development of mission-relevant solutions.

The ideal candidate combines significant military operational experience with technical fluency, analytical thinking, and a passion for innovation. This individual must be comfortable engaging military operators, government customers, and engineering teams to translate operational challenges into actionable technical opportunities. This position can be based onsite at Roy, UT or Huntsville, AL. This role can also support a full time teleworker.

Primary Responsibilities

• Operational Mission Expertise: Provide authoritative operational insight to engineering teams, helping identify mission challenges, capability gaps, operational constraints, and opportunities for innovation
• Warfighter Engagement: Build trusted relationships with military operators and government stakeholders to understand operational workflows, emerging threats, and unmet mission needs
• Mission Integration: Collaborate with engineers and technical leaders to translate operational insights into viable technical concepts, solution requirements, and engineering priorities
• Operational Evaluation: Participate in demonstrations, experimentation, prototyping, and user evaluations to assess mission relevance, operational suitability, and effectiveness of proposed solutions
• Technology Assessment: Evaluate emerging technologies and advanced capabilities from an operational perspective, identifying opportunities to improve mission performance and warfighter effectiveness
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with systems engineering, software engineering, Human Systems Integration (HIS), and other technical disciplines to incorporate operational feedback into development activities
• Continuous Improvement: Advocate for operator-centered engineering practices and contribute to iterative development approaches that accelerate delivery of effective mission capabilities

Basic Qualifications

• Active DoD Secret clearance
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience, subject to position-level requirements; minimum of 12 plus years relevant experience
• Military operational experience or directly comparable experience supporting complex military missions
• Demonstrated understanding of military operations, operational planning, mission execution, and associated technical systems
• Strong technical aptitude and the ability to engage effectively with engineers and technical subject matter experts
• Experience identifying operational challenges, assessing capability gaps, and communicating actionable recommendations
• Strong analytical, interpersonal, and communication skills, with the ability to engage credibly with military operators, government customers, and technical teams
• Ability to travel up to 75%

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with joint or multi-domain operations, command and control (C2), integrated air and missile defense, or other complex mission environments
• Experience supporting military technology development, operational testing, experimentation, or capability evaluation
• Familiarity with Operator-in-the-Loop, User-in-the-Loop, Human Systems Integration (HIS), or user-centered-design engineering approaches
• Understanding of modern defense technologies, including advanced software, AI-enabled capabilities, autonomous systems, and integrated mission systems
• Experience collaborating directly with engineering teams to develo