Sr. Principal Systems Engineer - LTC Design / Architecture / Integration

This role is for a Sr. Principal Systems Engineer focused on Long Term Comms (LTC) Design, Architecture, and Integration for the Global Hawk program within the Foreign Military Sales (FMS) Business Area at Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems. The engineer will lead a diverse engineering team to provide technical solutions across the FMS customers' Global Hawk portfolio, working across the entire Systems Engineering V-Model. Responsibilities include requirements development, use case development, integration planning, lab integration, test planning, formal test, and verification. The role involves close collaboration with customers and end users to ensure system requirements and design are understood and accepted.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with customers and end users to ensure system requirements, design, risks, and limitations are understood, communicated, and accepted
• Execute systems engineering functions to maintain the technical baseline, and to ensure the baseline reflects a cohesive system solution
• Responsible for capturing and translating the intent of stakeholders’ mission needs and objectives
• Utilizes operational experience, architecture, and system knowledge to create innovative system solutions to address stakeholder mission needs
• Support the development and validation of system level models used for concept development, design, verification, and validation
• Leverage your experience supporting Fielded Aircraft Systems, UAV systems, and the full lifecycle of Systems Engineering, including design reviews, requirements decomposition, test planning, and requirements verification
• Ability to plan, execute a schedule and lead a team towards those goals
• Clearly define end user needs and desired capabilities
• Define Use Cases into development lifecycle to define system requirements and architecture
• Utilize operational experience, architecture, and system knowledge to define solutions for stakeholder mission needs
• Support the development and validation of system level models used for concept development, design, verification, and validation
• Provide support and deliverables for successful milestone reviews (e.g. SRR, SFR, PDR, CDR, FCA)
• Presentation skills to effectively provide status to internal executive management and customers

Requirements

• Must have a Bachelors degree in a STEM field and at least 8 years of relevant military / professional experience, OR a Master's Degree in a STEM field and at least 6 years of relevant military / professional experience, OR a PhD and at least 4 years of relevant military / professional experience
• Must have an active US Government Secret or higher clearance (with a background investigation completed within the last 6 years or currently enrolled into Continuous Evaluation).
• Must have previous DOORS experience with requirements management
• Must have previous experience managing Technical Baselines (Functional and Allocated Baselines)
• Must have experience with integration and interfaces ICDs

Nice to have

• Experience with RQ-4 air vehicle, ground segment, sensor payloads, COMMS and support equipment
• Experience with FMS customers
• Experience with FMS operations
• Experience with FMS architecture
• Experience with MBSE
• Requirements verification and validation experience including generating Requirements Verification Plans (RVPs), generating Requirements Verification Reports (RVRs), verification sell-off. Preferred Functional Configuration Audit (FCA) experience.
• Experience with Use Case generation
• Experience as Segment-Level Systems Engineer
• Active TS/SCI
• MS degree in STEM field

Benefits

• RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available
• Primary Level Salary Range: $142,200.00 - $213,400.00The above salary range represents a general guideline; however, Northrop Grumman considers a number of factors when determining base salary offers such as the scope and responsibilities of the position and the candidate's experience, education, skills and current market conditions.Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay. Annual bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions as well as allow employees to share in company results. Employees in Vice President or Director positions may be eligible for Long Term Incentives. In addition, Northrop Grumman provides a variety of benefits including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, savings plan, Company paid holidays and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business.The application period for the job is estimated to be 20 days from the job posting date. However, this timeline may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates.Northrop Grumman is an Equal Opportunity Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class. For our complete EEO and pay transparency statement, please visit http://www.northropgrumman.com/EEO. U.S. Citizenship is required for all positions with a government clearance and certain other restricted positions.