Systems Engineer Systems - Level 4

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available CLEARANCE TYPE: Interim Secret TRAVEL: Yes, 10% of the Time

At Northrop Grumman, our employees have incredible opportunities to work on revolutionary systems that impact people’s lives around the world today, and for generations to come. Our pioneering and inventive spirit has enabled us to be at the forefront of many technological advancements in our nation’s history - from the first flight across the Atlantic Ocean, to stealth bombers, to landing on the moon.

We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage and a pioneering spirit to join forces to invent the future, and have fun along the way. Our culture thrives on intellectual curiosity, cognitive diversity and bringing your whole self to work — and we have an insatiable drive to do what others think is impossible. Our employees are not only part of history, they’re making history.

Northrop Grumman Space Systems is seeking a Principal Systems Engineer to support the GPI program’s Test & Evaluation (T&E) Integrated Product Team (IPT) for the Glide Phase Interceptor (GPI) program. The T&E IPT has whole landscape ownership of program test campaign through Initial Operational Capability (IOC). T&E IPT is accountable to ensure ground and flight test hardware is ready for test execution and post test data certification.

Seeking candidate that has strong technical depth in test and evaluation with emphasis in using environmental requirements and systems specifications to forge test requirements of component, subsystem, and system.

This position is 100% on site in Chandler, AZ.

• Act as primary POC for T&E IPT to compile data products that support GPI’s execution of the Technology Maturation and Risk Reduction (TMRR) path to IOC. This includes assisting in major program artifacts such as the Verification Execution Plan (VEP), Test Execution Plan (TEP), Analysis Execution Plan (AEP) Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) input, and Hardware Utilization Matrix (HUM). Focus for this candidate will be the VEP and TEP.
• Support T&E IPT ownership of the development and maturity of the VEP, TEP, and HUM to include units under test, software configuration, special test equipment, and software for special test equipment. These customer deliverable artifacts will represent the test and evaluation landscape of the program.
• Lead program hardware responsible engineers to establish the qualification test strategy tracing requirements to verification events including performance model anchoring in support of integrated system performance path to IOC.
• Bridge the Systems Engineering Integration & Test (SEIT) Verification and Validation (V&V) “V” process through test execution. This includes working closely in support of deriving All Up Round (AUR) Environments and helping architect path to efficient Qualification / Environmental Navy Certification path to IOC.

• Bachelor’s degree with 8 years of professional experience – OR – Master’s degree with 6 years of professional experience – OR – PhD with 4 years of professional experience
• Interim Secret DoD security clearance, or higher – Most work is performed in a closed area
• Working knowledge of Systems Engineering life cycle from concepts through production and sustainment.
• Experience in developing test requirements based on system specifications and system engineering requirement derivation.
• Self‑starter that can work with minimal guidance with the confidence to successfully engage, direct, and educate hardware leads on how they fit into the overall master test plan. This includes engineering, design verification, risk reduction, qualification, and certification testing that is specific to their hardware and ultimately augmenting the systems test.
• Capability to clearly communicate technical concepts to both technical and non‑technical personnel.

• Active US DoD Secret security clearance, or higher.
• Systems Engineering background with test and evaluation experience.
• Willingness to work fast paced development programs
• Experience with tailoring and test planning to SMC‑S‑016 guideline
• Experience…