Northrop Grumman Australia · 3 hours ago
Space Mission Systems Design Engineer / Ground Responsible Systems Engineer - Principal / Sr. Principal Engineer Systems
United States-North Carolina-Morrisville
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$108K/yr - $171K/yr
5+ years expNorthrop Grumman is a leading company in technological advancements, seeking a Principal or Sr Principal Systems Engineer for their Mission Systems Engineering Integration and Test team. The role involves supporting requirements and verification for Space RADAR Payload programs, maintaining specifications, and engaging with mission partners.
Defense & Space
No H1B
Security Clearance RequiredU.S. Citizen Only
Responsibilities
Work across multiple Space RADAR Payload programs as MSEIT team member supporting requirements, verification, and other Systems Engineering CDRL deliveries
Help coordinate larger MSEIT team inputs into specifications, verification documents, CONOPS document, and technical description documents
Engage with Mission Partner to maintain system level specification and verification artifacts
Maintain segment level, e.g., ground and on-orbit segment, specification and associated verification artifacts
Work with lower-level SE organizations, e.g., payload and ground, to maintain element level specifications and verification artifacts
Maintain R&V management process and configuration management of MSEIT external deliveries and internal artifacts
Work with Configuration Management (CM) to establish, implement, and maintain engineering controls across the larger program
Work to establish and maintain lower-level IPT processes (ground/payload SE teams) that integrate into program processing
Some travel, approximately once per month, is required to Linthicum, MD, Morrisville, NC, and Aurora, CO
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in STEM curriculum with 5 years relevant experience; 3 years with MS Degree; or PhD with 0 years of experience for Principal Engineer
Bachelor's degree in STEM curriculum with 8 years relevant experience; 6 years with MS Degree; or PhD with 3 years of experience for Sr Principal Engineer
Must have an active U.S. Government DoD Top Secret security clearance at time of application, current and within scope, with the ability to obtain and maintain SCI approval/access
Systems engineering experience (e.g., requirements, mission engineering, architecture, modeling and simulation, integration and test, verification and validation)
Experience with deployed/operational ground systems for tasking space sensor payloads and processing space sensor payload data
Experience with R&V teams for Space programs
Experience working with application-based software development teams and Agile development processes
Familiarity with continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipeline and ground software verification and regression testing
Preferred
Proponent of process and configuration management
Can champion change and improvement
Capable of indirect leadership
Experience with DOORS, STK, Cameo, MATLAB, Python
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