Systems Engineer - Level 4

Northrop Grumman; Virginia; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Northrop Grumman is hiring a Systems Engineer - Level 4 in its Space Systems Sector. The role focuses on managing interfaces for hosted payloads to a spacecraft bus, developing ICDs, and overseeing bus accommodations. You will support analysis for science and mission planning and contribute to mission performance evaluation.

Position is based in Gilbert, AZ or Dulles, VA with Top Secret clearance required. Relocation assistance may be available and travel up to 10% is expected.

Responsibilities

• Manage the technical and functional interfaces of one or more hosted payloads to a spacecraft bus.
• Develop payload port-specific interface control documents (ICDs).
• Manage giver-receiver materials and review bus accommodation documents.
• Develop functional and performance test scripts for payloads.
• Identify mechanical, electrical, and environmental constraints and requirements.
• Support science, experiment, and mission planning for the payload and evaluate mission performance and orbital operations.

Job description

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: Yes

CLEARANCE TYPE: Top 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’s Space Systems Sector is seeking a Systems Engineer - Level 4 to join our team in Gilbert, Arizona or Dulles, VA.

This Systems Engineer -Level 4 position is for an individual contributor within a multi-disciplinary engineering team. The specific responsibilities of this position will be to manage the technical and functional interfaces of one or more hosted payload(s) to a spacecraft bus. Work products include the development of payload port-specific interface control documents (ICDs), managing giver-receiver materials, review and approval of bus accommodation documents, development of functional and performance test scripts, and identification of mechanical, electrical, and environmental constraints and requirements. Analysis roles include supporting science, experiment, and mission planning for the payload and evaluating mission performance and orbital operations.

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