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

**This role may be filled at the Principal OR Senior Principal level based on the qualifications listed, below**

In this role, you will perform technical planning, system integration, verification and validation, cost and risk, and supportability and effectiveness analyses for total systems. Analyses are performed at all levels of total system product to include: concept, design, fabrication, test, installation, operation, maintenance and disposal. This role ensures the logical and systematic conversion of customer or product requirements into total systems solutions that acknowledge technical, schedule, and cost constraints. In addition, performs functional analysis, timeline analysis, detailed trade studies, requirements allocation and interface definition studies to translate customer requirements into hardware and software specifications.

Key Responsibilities:

• Organization and self-drive to gather required information, work with stakeholders, and provide analyses and presentations.
• Performs mission engineering activities to ensure continuity between desired operational capabilities and delivered system performance, through the Systems Engineering “V”. 
• Ensures performance capabilities of new systems and architectures are traded against cost and mission requirements; develops mission relevant scenarios; assesses operational effectiveness of existing and emerging systems and capabilities in representative operational environments.
• Develops new and/or integrates existing system simulation frameworks, performance models and algorithms, threat models, and command and control models.
• Simulates real-time operations and develops software that represent projected behavior of systems.
• Develops, integrates, and uses advanced graphical user interfaces and visualization tools.
• Models operational environments, performs trade studies via computer simulation and recommends alternative architectures.
• Performs operational analysis and mission effectiveness analysis.
• Incorporates AI/ML techniques in Modeling and Simulation frameworks.
• Coordinate the workload and assignments of a small team, ensuring efficient execution of engineering tasks.
• Foster team collaboration to solve complex engineering problems and ensure project milestones are achieved.
• Provide mentorship and technical guidance to junior team members.
• Act as the primary point of contact for team-related issues and provide regular progress updates to senior management.
• Identify and implement process improvements within the team to enhance productivity and quality of deliverables.

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 (Principal):

• Must have a Bachelor of Science degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Math (STEM) discipline AND 5 years of related professional/military experience OR a Master of Science degree in a STEM discipline AND 3 years of related professional/military experience, OR a STEM Ph.D. AND 1 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
• Must have experience with Java
• Must have experience with Ansys STK (Systems Tool Kit)

Basic Qualifications (Senior Principal):

• Must have a Bachelor of Science degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Math (STEM) discipline AND 8 years of related professional/military experience OR a Master of Science degree in a STEM discipline AND 6 years of related professional/military experience, OR a STEM Ph.D. AND 4 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
• Must have experience with Java
• Must have experience with Ansys STK (Systems Tool Kit)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience leading small teams of engineers to ensure project objectives are satisfied
• Experience in Python and MATLAB developing tools and algorithms.
• Previous experience in aviation and defense programs.
• Knowledge of Monte Carlo simulations.
• Knowledge with data mining techniques.
• Ability to discover tasks that can be automated for efficiency.
• Familiarity with AGILE, MBSE, and/or system architecture.
• Familiarity with version control tools (Bitbucket, GitHub, etc.).
• Current active in-scope U.S. Government DoD Top Secret security clearance with current or previous Special Program Access (SAP).