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Northrop Grumman · 3 months ago

Sr Principal Engineer Human Factors - R10208516

Melbourne, FL

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$119K/yr - $178K/yr

6+ years exp

Northrop Grumman is a leader in technological advancements, seeking a Senior Principal Human Factors Engineer to join their Human Systems Integration team. This role focuses on ensuring that aircraft hardware and software systems are operable by military flight and maintenance crews, applying Human-Computer Interaction principles and collaborating with various teams to enhance user experience.

AerospaceData IntegrationManufacturingRemote SensingSecurity

Growth Opportunities

No H1B

Security Clearance Required

U.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

Human Factors EngineeringUser Experience DesignHCI PrinciplesCAD ToolsSystems EngineeringHuman Factors AnalysisUX/UI DevelopmentPrototypingVisual DesignWireframingAdobe Creative SuiteTechnical WritingCollaboration

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)