Staff Engineer Systems – Remote Sensing Programs - R10204000

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RELOCATION ASSISTANCE:
No relocation assistance available

CLEARANCE TYPE:
Top 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.

The Payload and Ground Systems Division within Northrop Grumman Space Systems is a strategic partner specializing in delivering intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance solutions for classified and unclassified missions in space. Headquartered in Linthicum, Maryland, PGS RSP has offices, manufacturing, and world-class assembly, integration, and test facilities. We do it all here, on-site, from sensors to payloads to full up spacecraft, supporting Class A to Class D missions.

Our key capabilities include Active RF, Passive RF, and Electro-Optical payloads, space solar power, cross domain missions, and space resilience payloads & solutions.

This position is for a Staff Engineer Systems to join our Remote Sensing Programs Systems Engineering, Integration and Test (RSP SEIT) team. As a member of this team, you will have the opportunity to support efforts on both concept and product development to deliver key solutions to our customers. We cover a wide range of expertise within the systems engineering domain.

This includes mission engineering, requirements, architecture, modeling and simulation, integration and test, verification and validation, and many more!

This position is based 100% on-site in Linthicum, Maryland.

The position will be responsible for supporting and leading systems engineering tasks for space subsystems, payloads and/or vehicles. These may include, but are not limited to:

• Requirements analysis, derivation, and management
• Mission Engineering, modeling, and analysis
• Architecture and CONOPs development
• Systems modeling and simulation
• Functional analysis
• Timeline analysis
• Trade studies
• Technical planning
• Cost and risk analysis
• Interface definition
• System design
• System integration and test
• Verification and Validation planning and execution
• Supportability and effectiveness analysis for total systems.
• Some tools you could expect to use are DOORS, STK, Cameo, Rhapsody, MATLAB, python

• Bachelor’s degree in STEM curriculum with 12 years relevant experience; 10 years with MS Degree; or PhD with 7 years of experience.
• Must have an active U.S. Government DoD Top Secret security clearance at time of application, current and within scope, with the ability to obtain and maintain a Top-Secret clearance and SCI approval/access.
• The ability to obtain and maintain a Polygraph is required.
• United States Citizenship
• Systems engineering experience (i.e. requirements, mission engineering, architecture, modeling and simulation, integration and test, verification and validation)
• Digital Signal Processing experience
• GNURadio experience
• Proficient in MATLAB
• Experience with VHDL
• Experience with Verilog

• Active Polygraph at time of application.
• Experience with Machine Learning (embedded AI specifically)
• Space experience
• Sensor/payload experience: antennas, radar, EO/IR, communications, processing, specifically On-Board Processing
• Space vehicle experience
• Space ground systems architecture and design experience
• Mission engineering, modeling and simulation
• Space Mission CONOPS
• Assembly, Integration and Test (AI&T)

Primary Level Salary Range: $ - $

The above salary range represents a…