Northrop Grumman Australia · 1 month ago
Staff Engineer Aeronautical Product Architect
United States-California-San Diego
Full-time
Onsite
Lead/Staff
$177K/yr - $266K/yr
8+ years expNorthrop Grumman is a leading aerospace and defense technology company, seeking a Staff Engineer Aeronautical Product Architect to join their Vehicle Management System organization. The role involves defining system architecture, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and overseeing the development and validation of engineering models to ensure compliance with airworthiness certification.
Defense & Space
No H1B
Security Clearance RequiredU.S. Citizen Only
Responsibilities
Defining a comprehensive system architecture
Making critical decisions regarding the selection and sizing of CPUs, FPGAs, and memory
Determining the design of the internal and external bus topology
Driving the design of power-supplies and the development of thermal management strategies
Establishing effective dataflow, clocking methodologies, and a BIT philosophy
Conducting rigorous trade studies to steer part selection to meet performance, configuration, environmental, and lifecycle requirements
Identifying modular subsystems for potential reuse across the product line
Collaborating with program leadership to develop and execute a thorough analysis plan
Providing accurate time estimates and supporting overall scheduling and planning
Managing prototyping and validation efforts, overseeing the creation of proof-of-concept and engineering models
Defining and reviewing test strategies to ensure documentation supports airworthiness certification
Partnering with the team to implement integrated tool suites including Requirements Management (ALM), MBSE, PLM, and other analysis tools
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in a STEM discipline (Science, Technology, Engineering or Math) with 12 years of related professional engineering experience; OR a Master's degree in STEM with 10 years of related professional engineering experience, OR a PhD in STEM with 8 years of related professional engineering experience
Ability to obtain and maintain an active DOD Secret clearance
Preferred
Experience with safety critical HW/SW development, preferably in the aerospace industry
Successful history of implementing Ethernet, TSN, CANbus, Serial interfaces RS-232/485/422), PCIe, etc
Product-specific experience with VxWorks, AMD UltraScale+ MPSoCs and Vivado
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