Northrop Grumman, Space Systems, is seeking a Staff Systems Engineer to join our System Engineering team. This position will be at our Propulsion Systems Division facility located in Promontory, UT with periodic assignments at our Bacchus (Magna) & Roy UT location.

We are excited for you to join our team of qualified and diverse individuals. Our domain provides rewarding work that contributes to the latest advancements being made in the missile defense industry.

Roles and Responsibilities:

This position will have dual roles, both developing MBSE standards as part of a functional homeroom and working within teams to directly implement them across programs.

As the leading manufacturer of solid rocket motor propulsion, this position will have responsibility for defining how MBSE can be applied to enhance production. This includes integrating manufacturing and quality engineering perspectives with design, modeling the manufacturing process flow and associated requirements, controls, data, and inspections. A digital twin will be created for each production unit that is delivered with the physical hardware. Manufacturing data will be structured in the model for variance and trend analysis, creating better understanding of manufacturing controls and capabilities, reducing defects and informing future design improvements.  

Propulsion Systems provides critical on-going support of delivered product to government customers for monitoring the health of fielded strategic assets to ensure mission readiness. This position will have responsibility for defining how MBSE can be applied to enable better reliability and service life predictions. Informed by aging and surveillance program plans, large amounts of test data will be managed and incorporated into automated analysis suites to provide continuously updated individual motor and fleet predictions.

As a provider of solid rocket motor solutions to a variety of prime integrators, our customers are requiring increasing MBSE integrations as the industry pursues digital modernization strategies. This position will have responsibility for defining how to interface and/or integrate our models with customer models. This includes flow down of requirements, design constraints, interfaces, loads and environments, etc. It includes data management where interactions and dependencies exist in iterative workflows between motor, vehicle, and launch infrastructure. It also includes flow up of verification results from test, analysis, and production data.

The ideal candidate will be able to lead implementation of these solutions and coach other SEs to build their capabilities for leading.

Job duties as a subject matter expert within the Systems Engineering functional homeroom:

• Work with functional and program leadership to identify systems engineering needs

• Define standards for Systems Engineering products and processes

• Develop tools that enable efficient and effective execution across the product lifecycle

• Provide training to Systems Engineers to raise the baseline level of competency across the systems engineering skill set and upskill as the discipline advances

• Provide peer reviews and coaching across programs to ensure quality products and recommendations for continuous improvement

• Provide support for critical needs including proposals, program start-ups, problem-solving teams, etc.

• Represent Propulsion Systems internally within the enterprise and externally among government / customer / industry groups

Job duties as an individual technical leader acting as the systems engineering lead:

• Work with Program Management and Chief Engineering to define the systems engineering approach and create program plans

• Build an MBSE model architecture consistent with standards and suitable for program needs

• Coordinate with customers to define an integration approach with customer models and databases, facilitate alignment for concurrent development including key decision points, milestones, requirements definition and data needs

• Lead program teams in executing Agile for Systems Engineering, acting as scrum master and coach

• Create program-level qualification plans, provide technical performance measures based on analytical progress, and provide systems direction for major test verification activities

• Facilitate problem-solving workshops as needed, supporting the Chief Engineer in finding solutions to complex problems crossing multiple teams

Basic Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications for a level 5:  

• BS degree in Mechanical, Aerospace, Physics or Engineering Management is required & 12 years of experience, 10 years with a MS or 8 years with a Ph.D.

Required Qualifications:

• Advanced level skills across the systems engineering competency framework as applicable to aerospace hardware design, manufacture, and sustainment (equivalent to INCOSE CSEP)

• Advanced user and project administrator for DOORS requirements management tool

• Knowledge of MBSE language (SysML or UML) diagrams, objects, and relationships as applicable to hardware

• Advanced level skills in MBSE tools, specifically with object-oriented tools like Cameo Systems Modeler or similar

• Knowledge of programming language suitable for MBSE tools (Python, Java, etc.)

• Knowledge of Agile methodologies

• Knowledge of digital thread methodology

• Knowledge of reliability engineering approaches for hardware

• Leadership skills for influencing key program decisions, coaching teams of systems engineers, and leading digital transformation

• Minimum of 5 years of experience working with aerospace hardware (other equivalent fields may be considered)

• Minimum of 5 years of experience working in Systems Engineering or Integration

• Experience in aspects of aerospace design (or similar) development processes including design, analysis, testing and integration

• Experience leading development of MBSE tools and approaches

• Experience writing standards and providing training

• Experience leading cross-functional integrated product teams

Preferred Qualifications:

• Systems Engineering degree or graduate certificate strongly desired

• Model-Based Systems Engineering Certification strongly desired

• Experience with hardware design and manufacturing processes for solid rocket motors or other similar types of propulsion

• Familiarity with the general requirement sets and system architectural approach necessary for development of a spaceflight system

• Experience integrating complex system-of-systems

• Experience supporting fielded strategic systems, including reliability, maintainability, safety, and sustainability

• Experience with product testing, including system level tests

• Experience with manufacturing and quality control databases and processes

• Experience with risk management

Additional Requirements:

• Successful candidate must be able to pass a background check for the Federal Safe Explosives Act (SEA)

Position Benefits:

As a full-time employee of Northrop Grumman Space Systems, you are eligible for our robust benefits package including:

• Medical, Dental & Vision coverage

• 401k

• Educational Assistance

• Life Insurance

• Employee Assistance Programs & Work/Life Solutions

• Paid Time Off

• Health & Wellness Resources

• Employee Discounts 

This position’s standard work schedule is a 9/80A. The 9/80 schedule allows employees who work a nine-hour day Monday through Thursday to take every other Friday off.

This role may offer a competitive relocation assistance package.