Principal​/Sr Principal Engineer - Operations Research AHT - R10209877

Principal/Sr Principal Engineer – Operations Research (AHT – R)

Posted 1 month ago. Relocation assistance may be available. Clearance type:
Secret. Travel:
Yes, 10% of the time.

At Northrop Grumman, our employees work on revolutionary systems that impact lives worldwide. We seek bold new ideas, courage, and a pioneering spirit 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.

Northrop Grumman Advanced Weapons Business Unit is seeking a Principal / Sr Principal Engineer – Operations Research for our Advanced Programs Software, Modeling, and Simulation team in Northridge, CA. The role evaluates investment decisions and assesses new technologies and military operations. Responsibilities include simulation tool and infrastructure development, model development, scenario creation, and analysis across multiple domains.

• Develop and apply advanced software and systems methods to investigate complex technical problems.
• Develop and use tools that support visualization of the battlespace at mission or engagement level.
• Use, develop, and modify tools to support data analysis of simulation or flight test results.
• Model operational environments; perform trade studies via computer simulation; recommend alternative architectures.
• Develop software to model behavior of systems in real‑time and constructive simulations.
• Develop, integrate, and use advanced graphical user interfaces and visualization tools.
• Perform mission simulation using government or industry standard tools to determine mission effectiveness.
• Perform engagement simulation using standard tools, MATLAB, Simulink and others.
• Perform modeling and simulation studies that optimize mission performance across the air, land, sea, space, and cyber domains.
• Perform modeling, simulation, and analysis tasks assessing system survivability, effectiveness, and overall performance in engagement/mission-level scenarios.
• Develop performance models and algorithms, threat models, and command and control models for new and existing system simulation frameworks.
• Solicit input from stakeholders, synthesize data, and communicate results to leadership.
• Participate in Agile engineering project frameworks.

• BS in Computer Science, Engineering, Math, or Physics and 5+ years modeling, simulation, and analysis of Aerospace Systems; OR MS and 3+ years of similar experience.
• Current/active U.S. Government issued DoD Secret Clearance (issued within past 5 years).
• Experience as an AFSIM developer/analyst, including making and validating movers, creating observers, post‑processors, and performing large Design of Experiments (DoE) studies.
• Experience creating compelling OV‑1s, data visualization, and briefing materials.
• Experience executing technology development and EMD contracts with DoD customers.
• Experience leading Operations Research studies, identifying Technical Performance Metrics (TPMs), and developing study plans from Statements of Work (SOWs) and Statements of Objectives (SOOs).

• BS and 9+ years modeling, simulation, and analysis of Aerospace Systems; OR MS and 7+ years; OR PhD and 4+ years.
• Current/active U.S. Government issued DoD Secret Clearance (issued within past 5 years).
• Experience as an AFSIM developer/analyst, including making and validating movers, creating observers, post‑processors, and performing large Design of Experiments (DoE) studies.
• Experience creating compelling OV‑1s, data visualization, and briefing materials.
• Experience executing technology development and EMD contracts with DoD customers.
• Experience leading Operations Research studies, identifying TPMs, and developing study plans from SOWs and SOOs.

• Comfortable with high‑level programming languages such as C/C++.
• Strong software development principles with data throughput and distributed systems knowledge.
• Experience with MATLAB, Python, VBA, or similar.
• Comfortable developing across Windows/Linux operating systems.
• Strong debugging skills and use of debuggers,…