The Systems Engineer / Principal Systems Engineer seeking to join our team will focus on Requirements Management, Reliability Analysis and Systems Safety Analysis based out of Rocket Center, WV.  As a Systems Engineer at Northrop Grumman you will have a challenging and rewarding opportunity to be a part of our Enterprise-wide digital transformation. Our success is grounded in our ability to embrace change, move quickly and continuously drive innovation.  The successful candidate will be collaborative, open, transparent, and team-oriented with a focus on team empowerment & shared responsibility, flexibility, continuous learning, and a culture of automation.  

Specific responsibilities include:

Performs technical planning, system integration, verification and validation, cost and risk, reliability and system safety analysis of rocket motor propulsion systems. Analyses are performed at the sub-system product level to include: concept, design, fabrication, test, operation, maintenance and disposal. Ensures the logical and systematic conversion of customer or product requirements into systems solutions that acknowledge technical, schedule, and cost constraints. A Systems Engineer in this business area is responsible for working with a broad customer base to identify unique requirements, flow the requirements into design documentation, and work with a diverse design team to support the build and test of propulsion systems.

Expected duties include:

• Presenting to customers on the capabilities of current products, performance analyses, design information, and requirements verification methods.
• Generating, reviewing, and managing multiple requirements sets that cover all aspects of both performance and nonperformance including mechanical interfaces, electrical interfaces, data requirements, environmental requirements, reliability, and systems safety.
• Awareness and responsiveness to contract milestones and deliverables.
• Working with a team of subsystem engineers and subject matter experts to ensure the designs are sufficient to meet the system requirements.
• Working with integration and test engineers to ensure all requirements are verified through inspection, analysis, demonstration, or test often by providing test and data reduction inputs.
• Collaborate on providing direction to ensure production tests and troubleshooting tests are executed correctly and resulting data conforms to requirements.
• Develop simulation models for propulsion systems.

This requisition may be filled at a higher grade based on qualifications listed below.

Basic Qualifications for a level 2:

• Bachelor’s degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) related discipline with 2 years of relevant experience; Master’s degree in STEM related discipline with 0 years of relevant experience

• Strong requirements development and management skills using DOORS (or equivalent software)

• Demonstrated ability to clearly communicate to team members, customers, and suppliers
• Must be able to obtain a Department of Defense Secret security clearance; U.S. citizenship is a prerequisite.

Basic Qualifications for a level 3:

• Bachelor’s degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) related discipline with 5 years of relevant experience; Master’s degree in STEM related discipline with 3 years of relevant experience; or a PhD
• Strong requirements development and management skills using DOORS (or equivalent software)
• Demonstrated ability to clearly communicate to team members, customers, and suppliers
• Must be able to obtain a Department of Defense Secret security clearance; U.S. citizenship is a prerequisite.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Familiarity with propulsion systems
• Familiarity with programs or projects in a production phase
• Experience managing system requirements and requirements verification
• Strong requirement development and management skills using DOORS
• Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) experience with tools like CAMEO
• Familiarity with reliability analysis
• Familiarity with systems safety analysis