Northrop Grumman · 3 weeks ago
Vehicle Management Systems Engineer / Principal Engineer - R10216212
Northrop Grumman is a leading aerospace and defense technology company, seeking a Vehicle Management Systems Engineer / Principal Engineer to join their team in Melbourne, Florida. The role involves designing and developing system architectures for aircraft vehicle management systems, ensuring requirements are met, and conducting various testing and support activities.
AerospaceData IntegrationManufacturingRemote SensingSecurity
Responsibilities
Flight critical system design for aircraft control
Architecture design with optimized redundancy levels
Trade studies
Specification of hardware elements and technical support to procurement
Vehicle management software specification and oversight
Fault management design
Lab testing of flight hardware & software
On-aircraft testing
Support to vehicle flight testing
Anomaly resolution
VMS Specification development
Requirements definition
Functional modeling
VMS testing
Support subsystems to VMS interfaces including managing requirements, design, testing and presenting updates to internal and external customers
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) field from an accredited university with 2 years of system architecture definition experience
Experience with at least one of the following technical disciplines: subsystem integration and test, data bus architecture definition, system integrity analysis, Vehicle Management Systems architecture development
Your ability to transfer and maintain the final adjudicated government Secret clearance, and any program access(es) required for the position within a reasonable period of time, as determined by the company
Bachelor's Degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) field from an accredited university with 5 years of system architecture definition experience OR a Master's Degree in STEM with 3 years of system architecture definition experience
Experience with at least one of the following technical disciplines: subsystem integration and test, data bus architecture definition, system integrity analysis, VMS architecture development
Your ability to transfer and maintain the final adjudicated government Secret clearance, and any program access(es) required for the position within a reasonable period of time, as determined by the company
Preferred
Previous experience with design, development, and/or integration of Air Vehicle systems and subsystems in the military aerospace environment
Active DoD Secret clearance (with background investigation completed within the last 6 years or currently enrolled in Continuous Evaluation)
Prior airworthiness experience
Integrated Hardware/Software (Subsystem/System Feature) validation experience
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
Northrop Grumman is an aerospace, defense and security company that provides training and satellite ground network communications software.
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$3.7BKey Investors
U.S. Department of DefenseNASA
2025-05-27Post Ipo Debt· $1B
2024-01-29Post Ipo Debt· $2.5B
2023-12-20Grant· $72M
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