Northrop Grumman Australia · 3 months ago
Sr Principal Engineer Human Factors
United States-Florida-Melbourne
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$119K/yr - $178K/yr
6+ years expNorthrop Grumman Australia is a leader in aerospace and defense, seeking a Senior Principal Human Factors Engineer to join their Human Systems Integration team. This role involves ensuring that evolving aircraft hardware and software systems are operable by military flight and maintenance crews, applying Human-Computer Interaction principles to software designs, and collaborating with various teams to enhance user experience.
Defense & Space
No H1B
Security Clearance RequiredU.S. Citizen Only
Responsibilities
Support the evaluation of requirements adhering to Human Factors best practices and specified sections of MIL-STD-1472
Facilitate the customer’s product vision by conceiving, sketching, and prototyping experiences for digital products with a user centered design approach and consideration to HMI and Human Factors principals
Be flexible and iterate designs in a fast-paced, sometimes ambiguous environment
Use one or more industry standard design and prototyping tools to create wireframes, visual designs, and interactive prototypes
Leads, enables, and is accountable for the preparation, improvement, and integration of the human interface design visuals for the organization
Confer with subsystem engineers and subject matter experts for project details regarding background information, project parameters and objectives, presentation approaches, styles, and techniques
Collaboration with Design Integrated Product Teams (IPTs) to ensure evolving design addresses program needs and adheres to Human Interface design requirements
Contributions to Human Factors Analyses (including but not limited to: Task Analyses and Predictive Workload Analyses, Usability studies, Workload, and Situational Awareness surveys)
Conduct computer based (NX) and empirical accessibility assessments from both an operator and maintainer perspective
Author/support the program documentation of the HFE processes and products in a format consistent with US Military Data Item Descriptions (e.g. Human Engineering Program Plan, Human Engineering Design Approach Document – Operator, Human Engineering Design Approach Document – Maintainer, Human Engineering Test Plan, Human Engineering Test Report, et. Al)
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree and 8 years of experience in a Human Factors related field; or a Master's degree and 6 years of experience in a related field; or a PhD and 4 years of experience in a related field
Your ability to transfer and maintain the final adjudicated government Secret clearance (DoD must be in-scope or enrolled in Continuous Evaluation) and any program access(es) required for the position within a reasonable period of time, as determined by the Company
Preferred
Experience developing, administering and/or analyzing Human Factors questionnaires such as Usability, Workload, and Situational Awareness
Proficiency in writing and executing demonstration & test procedures
The ability to clearly and accurately express engineering findings orally and in written technical reports and presentations
Familiar with the interpretation and application of systems safety, personnel survivability, and habitability requirements to system design
Experience with CAD Tools (NX and NX Jack Expertise preferred)
Experience with system engineering processes and tools (CAMEO preferred)
Understand systems and design thinking as well as HMI/HCI design principles and practices
Experience authoring Human Interface Design CDRLs in accordance with DoD Data Item Descriptions (e.g. HEDAD-M/O, HEPP, HSIPP, HETP/R, etc)
Experience interpreting, applying, and/or tailoring MIL-STD-1472, MIL-STD-411, MIL-STD-1787, MIL-STD-3009, and/or MIL-STD-46855 in support of aircraft design activity
Experience in system modeling tools (i.e., CORE, Rhapsody, PTC Integrity Modeler, Cameo)
Experience with visual design (e.g. typography, symbology, layout) and UX/UI development methods (e.g. personas, usability testing, heuristic evaluations)
Experience with wireframing and user interface prototyping (e.g. Balsamiq)
Proficiency with Adobe Creative Suite (i.e. InDesign, Illustrator)
Benefits
Health insurance coverage
Life and disability insurance
Savings plan
Company paid holidays
Paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business
Company
Northrop Grumman Australia
Northrop Grumman Australia is the Australia-based arm of Northrop Grumman Corporation and committed to generating long-term prosperity, investing in advanced Research & Development, sovereign and exportable Intellectual Property, high-quality jobs and long-term technology leadership across the Commonwealth.
501-1000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageCompany data provided by crunchbase