Northrop Grumman Australia · 6 hours ago
Sr Staff Engineer Mission Architect
United States-Virginia-Dulles
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$193K/yr - $289K/yr
10+ years expNorthrop Grumman is a leading aerospace and defense technology company that is seeking a Mission Architect to join their team in Dulles, VA. The role involves leading technical efforts for program capture and strategy, managing the capture technical team, and supporting the establishment and evolution of system architecture for various programs.
Defense & Space
No H1B
Security Clearance RequiredU.S. Citizen Only
Responsibilities
Manage the capture technical team
Direct developmental and analytical efforts to reduce risk, mature the system, ensure mission success, and grow the business area
Support the family of programs with system architecture establishment/evolution and CONOPs development
Ability to capture core concepts and instructional needs from a large amount of technical data (ground and space hardware) and communicate technical concepts to an audience of non-subject matter experts with varying levels of domain experience
Educate leads, customers, and engineers on mission capability, analysis, and CONOPS
Performs system-of-system trades, modeling, simulation and analysis to assess space mission architecture alternatives for delivering a customer mission effect, data or capability as it fits within a broader campaign
Support capture activities, including RFI/RFP preparation, customer presentations and demonstrations, and competitor analysis
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree with 14 years of professional experience – OR – Master's degree with 12 years of professional experience – OR – PhD with 10 years of professional experience
Requires an active U.S. Government DoD Top-Secret/SCI security clearance at time of application, current and within scope, with an ability to maintain Special Access Program (SAP) approval within a reasonable period of time
Understanding of Systems Engineering principles and practices
Experience with developing and presenting briefing slides to senior leaders and executive level personnel
Strong written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to work within diverse teams
Preferred
Experience in mission design, satellite ground software, distributed modeling & simulation
Understanding of system of system architecture designs the interplay between various national security customers and products
Prior aerospace-related work experience for a U.S Government Agency or Contractor
Previous experience with flight hardware on operational systems
Previous experience with Class C / demonstration programs
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