System Integration & Test Engineer — Secret Clearance

Northrop Grumman; Melbourne (FL); On-site; USD 79,000 - 119,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary bonus

Overtime eligibility

Shift differential

Long Term Incentives

Health insurance

Paid time off

Job summary

Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems in Melbourne, FL, is seeking a System Integration & Test Engineer to join our Lab Test organization. The role requires a Secret clearance and involves first-time integration, test condition derivation, and formal procedure development in a lab environment.

Responsibilities include analysis of test data, defect investigations, and cross-team collaboration across engineering disciplines, with occasional overtime and shift considerations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a STEM discipline with 2+ years of experience; or master's or higher in STEM.
• Active US Government clearance (or enrolled into Continuous Evaluation).
• Ability to obtain SAP clearance within a reasonable time.
• Prior aerospace/test engineering experience.
• Foundational engineering concepts understood.
• Strong teamwork and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Perform first-time integration and functionality checkouts for air vehicle and mission system capabilities.
• Derive test conditions, configurations, actions, expected results, and success criteria using systems engineering principles.
• Plan, develop, update, and brief formal lab test procedures for software certification.
• Analyze post-test data to support pass/fail disposition for test steps.
• Document investigations and retest efforts for defects and anomalies.
• Collaborate with systems engineering, hardware, software, production, ground test and flight test teams.

Skills

Lab test systems

Systems engineering

Troubleshooting

Written and verbal communication

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in STEM

Master's or higher in STEM

Tools

Atlassian tool suite

Python

MATLAB

LabVIEW

Job description

Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems in Melbourne, FL, is seeking a System Integration & Test Engineer to join our Lab Test organization. The role requires a Secret clearance and involves first-time integration, test condition derivation, and formal procedure development in a lab environment.

Responsibilities include analysis of test data, defect investigations, and cross-team collaboration across engineering disciplines, with occasional overtime and shift considerations.