Please note: Only external candidates and NG employees who are not currently in AS Engineering will be considered under this requisition.

Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems has an opening for a Vehicle Management Systems Engineer / Principal Engineer to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals. This position is located in Melbourne, Florida. This requisition may be filled at a higher grade based on qualifications listed below.

Vehicle Management Systems (VMS) Engineer requires coursework and/or experience in aircraft vehicle management systems.

A VMS engineer designs and develops system architectures, and defines key capabilities and performance requirements. Defines design and technology maturity constraints of the system in accordance with customer specifications. Develops thorough definition of system external interfaces. Defines system implementation approach and operational concept. Ensures requirements are met and evaluates performance with customer.

Duties include: flight critical system design for aircraft control; architecture design with optimized redundancy levels; trade studies; specification of hardware elements and technical support to procurement;  vehicle management software specification and oversight; fault management design; lab testing of flight hardware & software; on-aircraft testing; support to vehicle flight testing; and anomaly resolution. We seek candidates with strong written and verbal communication skills, the ability to work as part of a team, and the ability to organize work, manage time, plan, and prioritize.

Primary responsibilities will include VMS Specification development, requirements definition, functional modeling, and VMS testing. In addition, engineer will support subsystems to VMS interfaces including managing requirements, design, testing and presenting updates to internal and external customers.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

This requisition may be filled at either an Engineer Aeronautical or a Principal Engineer Aeronautical level.

The basic qualifications for an Engineer Aeronautical are:

• Bachelor’s Degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) field from an accredited university with 2 years of system architecture definition experience.
• Experience with at least one of the following technical disciplines: subsystem integration and test, data bus architecture definition, system integrity analysis, Vehicle Management Systems architecture development
• Your ability to transfer and maintain the final adjudicated government Secret clearance, and any program access(es) required for the position within a reasonable period of time, as determined by the company.

The basic qualifications for a Principal Engineer Aeronautical are:

• Bachelor’s Degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) field from an accredited university with 5 years of system architecture definition experience OR a Master’s Degree in STEM with 3 years of system architecture definition experience.
• Experience with at least one of the following technical disciplines: subsystem integration and test, data bus architecture definition, system integrity analysis, VMS architecture development
• Your ability to transfer and maintain the final adjudicated government Secret clearance, and any program access(es) required for the position within a reasonable period of time, as determined by the company.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Previous experience with design, development, and/or integration of Air Vehicle systems and subsystems in the military aerospace environment
• Active DoD Secret clearance (with background investigation completed within the last 6 years or currently enrolled in Continuous Evaluation)
• Prior airworthiness experience
• Integrated Hardware/Software (Subsystem/System Feature) validation experience.