Sr. Principal Systems Engineer – X-Lab Sr Systems Engineer (25-019)

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: No relocation assistance available

CLEARANCE TYPE: 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 Space Systems – Launch and Missile Defense Systems has an exciting career opportunity for a Sr Principal Systems Engineer – X-Lab Sr Systems Engineer o join our team of qualified, diverse individuals. This position will be located at Schriever Space Force Base, Colorado Springs, CO, and is not a remote work position.

Position Overview:

The Command and Control, Battle Management, and Communications (C2BMC) program integrates the Missile Defense System. It is a vital operational system that enables the U.S. president, secretary of defense, and combatant commanders at strategic, regional, and operational levels to systematically plan ballistic missile defense operations, to see the battle develop collectively, and to dynamically manage designated networked sensors and weapons systems to achieve global and regional mission objectives.

 C2BMC supports a layered missile defense capability that enables an optimized response to threats of all ranges in all phases of flight. C2BMC is the force multiplier that globally and regionally networks integrate, synchronizing autonomous sensor and weapon systems and operations to optimize performance. C2BMC is integral to all system ground and flight tests, which verify and exercise all current and future missile defense system capabilities.

The Command and Control, Battle Management, and Communications Experimentation Laboratory (C2BMC X-Lab) is a very fast paced and dynamic environment. The X-Lab is responsible for developing and integrating future-capability prototypes for the Missile Defense System (MDS) including Sensor/Weapon Integration, Algorithm Development, User Interface Development and other critical leading-edge missile defense technologies.

The X-Lab has a need to augment the team with a senior systems engineer to lead our Analysis Team. The candidate will perform both as an individual contributor and as a Team Lead for advanced concepts development projects. This includes directing the activities of junior level engineers. The candidate will contribute to full lifecycle development of advanced concepts.

Essential Functions:

• Evaluate advanced missile defense command and control capabilities to provide innovative solutions to complex technical problems, including defining and coordinating analysis objectives and metrics for various experimental prototypes, and performing associated analysis
• Serve as the X-Lab spokesperson on advanced projects when briefing results to the customer
• Work assignments are often self-initiated and coordinated with X-Lab leadership
• Provide oversight of maintenance and improvements to the analysis tool suite, and maintain team analysis standards and metrics
• Support advanced concept demonstrations during live and simulated MDA test events
• Focus on and lead the analysis of R&D systems in C2BMC and will contribute to other ongoing X-Lab projects as needed
• Assess how the C2BMC prototype system performs by identifying high level objectives and refining into an integrated set of metrics, analysis tool development, assessment of experimental data, generating and presenting customer-quality products containing analytical observations
• Apply these results to identify and work to enhance C2BMC for future operations
• Must be comfortable with rapidly changing requirements, design challenges that require novel solutions, fast-paced activities, and tight deadlines

Basic Qualifications:

Please note your updated security clearance and IAT/relevant certifications on your resume, if applicable.

• Bachelor’s Degree in a STEM field (Mathematics, Science, Physics, Engineering or related technical discipline) from an accredited university and 8 years of related experience or a Master’s degree in a related STEM discipline and 6 years of experience
• Ability and willingness to travel up-to 10% to support business needs
• Applicants must have a current active in-scope DoD-issued Secret security clearance at the time of application, which is required to start
• Non-standard work hours are highly likely during event execution
• Ability and willingness to travel up to 10% to support business needs
• Must have experience contributing to an integrated team environment with other systems, software, and specialty engineers to develop solutions that includes a background in all aspects of the analysis life cycle
• Must have experience with identification of analysis objectives, metric generation, data assessment, and presentation of the results
• Must demonstrate the ability to analyze high level customer needs and defined a structured and logical approach to refine the objectives and analysis requirements
• Must demonstrate the ability to communicate effectively, develop and script analysis tools, clearly present technical approaches and findings, and have experience in writing and implementing analysis plans within a project
• Must possess expertise in a technical discipline related to systems engineering, data analysis, or missile defense
• Experience developing analysis tools using:
  • MATLAB
  • Python
  • Excel
  • Bash and others  
• Must have a strong math and physics background, including probability and statistics, linear algebra, and calculus
• Linux and/or Unix based development
• Perform verification and validation of systems (functional and performance)
• Full cycle systems engineering of new capabilities, including development of artifacts such as:
  • Use Cases
  • System requirements
  • Performance specifications
  • System interface design & Interface Control Documents
• Conduct and participate in peer reviews
• Leadership of a team composed of multiple disciplines

What We Can Offer You:

Northrop Grumman provides a comprehensive benefits package and a work environment that encourages your growth and supports the mutual success of our people and our company. Northrop Grumman benefits give you the flexibility and control to choose the benefits that make the most sense for you and your family. Your benefits will include the following:

• Health Plan
• Savings Plan
• Paid Time Off
• Education Assistance
• Training and Development
• Flexible Work Arrangements

https://benefits.northropgrumman.com/us/en2/BenefitsOverview/Pages/default.aspx

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Salary Range: $124,900.00 - $187,300.00

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 committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action 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/AA 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.