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Systems Engineer

Hybrid (San Diego, California, United States of America)
Full Time
$89,400 – $134,200

Location:
San Diego, California, United States of America

About Northrop Grumman

Northrop Grumman solves the toughest problems in space, aeronautics, defense and cyberspace to meet the ever-evolving needs of our customers worldwide. Our 90,000 employees are Defining Possible every day using science, technology and engineering to create and deliver advanced systems, products and services. Northrop Grumman careers and internships are as varied as your interests, with a lifetime of potential that will allow you to work together with people from many backgrounds, personal passions and disciplines.

Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems is looking for well qualified Systems Engineers to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals within our Systems Engineering organization. This position is located in San Diego, CA.

The selected candidate will be responsible for coordination and collaboration with diverse engineering design teams to provide imaginative, technical solutions to a wide range of difficult problems in establishing and managing the technical baseline in support of programmatic milestones. The candidate will be executing system integration tasking across the entire lifecycle of a system and integrating new capabilities on the RQ4 platform. This role support leadership across all SE disciplines including requirements development, use case development, capability (hardware and software) development, integration planning, lab integration, test planning, formal test, verification and fielded test and mission support.

The position requires system thinking and extensive knowledge of development life-cycle processes.  Candidate must exhibit strong communication skills (written and oral) and support coordination cross-IPT toward the goal of an operationally validated integrated system.

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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.

Educational assistance is available to employees who want to continue to learn and develop skills/knowledge.

Our educational assistance program supports employee development by providing resources such as:

  • Free Education Advice: Call 855-222-2398 to speak with an experienced advisor to tailor an educational program to your career goals and needs.
  • Tuition Savings at Accredited Schools: Access a network of accredited schools in a variety of locations (and online) to take advantage of reduced tuition costs and waived fees.
  • Our Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) provide benefits for the member, our leaders and the company. Our ERGs offer opportunities to be a friend, be active, be a volunteer, be a leader, to be recognized and to be yourself. Every ERG is inclusive of all employees

Essential Functions:

  • Support cross-IPT development of system level requirements and use cases
  • Support requirements verification methodology and traceability
  • Support development of interface definitions and integration plans
  • Conduct formal integration and support capabilities-based system level testing of fully integrated complex software and hardware subsystems
  • Evaluate integration and test anomalies and assist disposition and correction of issues as found
  • Perform requirements verification and selloff
  • Provide support to flight test and fielded assets

Basic Qualifications:

  • For Systems Engineer (level 2) consideration- Bachelor's Degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) discipline with 2 Years experience OR Master's Degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) discipline with 0 Years experience
  • Experience in at least one aspect of aerospace Systems Engineering, including requirements decomposition, test planning, requirements verification, integration, and requirements management
  • Must have at least an Interim Secret clearance to start for consideration
  • Ability to obtain and maintain a final DoD Secret Security Clearance
  • Must have ability to obtain and maintain Program Access (PAR) within a reasonable period of time, as determined by the company to meet its business needs.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Familiarity and understanding of system requirements (validation and verification) and interface control documents (ICDs)
  • Strong leadership, excellent communication, and strong presentation skills
  • Familiarity with JIRA software tool (and/or similar) for issue tracking and resolution
  • Experience in troubleshooting system issues and identifying root cause corrective actions
  • Experience in software development, including interfacing with systems engineering and integration and test
  • Experience with USAF programs
  • Experience in integrating hardware and software in a lab environment, troubleshooting and interface management
  • Experience with technical configuration management (CM or Technical Baseline)
  • Experience with root cause investigations, fielded issue investigation, and operational missions