Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems has an opening for an Engineer Systems Architect to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals within our Systems Engineering organization. This role is located in Melbourne, FL.

In this role, you will work with the Chief Engineer and Systems Engineering lead to design architecture solutions supporting Open Mission System (OMS) and Universal Command and Control Interface (UCI) Standards development as well as developing solutions to integrate existing programs intending to adopt the OMS and UCI Standards.

We are looking for innovative thinkers who thrive in a dynamic environment and are comfortable with multi-tasking, prioritizing tasks, giving verbal presentations, and self-educating without direct supervision. The candidate should have a firm understanding of traditional systems engineering concepts and methodologies and must be able to apply and adjust these concepts and methodologies to an accelerated process in the early stages of the engineering design. The candidate should be familiar with Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE), be able to work within an agile environment, and be an “out of the box” thinker. 

Key Responsibilities:

• Participation in architecture definition and complex system problem solving in support of Research and Advanced Design programs
• Collaborate with the Chief Engineer and Lead Systems Engineer to build out Systems Engineering artifacts in support of standards development for incorporation into ABMS and JADC2
• Generating and presenting material to support internal and external customer briefings

We offer flexible work arrangements, 9/80 work schedule with every other Friday off, phenomenal learning opportunities, exposure to a wide variety of projects and customers, and a very friendly team environment. We are looking for self-motivated, proactive, and goal-oriented people to help us grow our services and become even better at what we do.

Basic Qualifications: 

• Must have a Bachelor of Science degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Math (STEM) discipline AND 2 years of related professional/military experience OR a Master of Science degree in a STEM discipline AND 0 years of related professional/military experience OR a STEM Ph.D. AND 0 years of related professional/military experience
• Must have an active DoD Secret or higher clearance (with a background investigation completed within the last 6 years or currently enrolled into Continuous Evaluation)
• Must have the ability to obtain and maintain a DoD Top Secret clearance within a reasonable amount of time as determined by the company
• Must have the ability to obtain and maintain Special Access Program (SAP) clearance within a reasonable amount of time as determined by the company

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Familiarity with working concepts across multiple system and engineering domains
• Familiarity with model-based systems engineering development and/or products and/or Mission Engineering
• Active Top Secret clearance
• Active SAP
• Experience/familiarity with working in an open consortium environment
• Experience with Cameo Enterprise Architecture modeling for system design
• Experience with Altova XMLSpy
• Experience in integrating complex system across multiple domains
• Experience demonstrating concepts to management and customers