Sr Principal Engineer Guidance Navigation Control
Listed on 2026-02-12
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Engineering
Systems Engineer, Electrical Engineering
RELOCATION ASSISTANCE:
No relocation assistance available CLEARANCE TYPE:
Secret TRAVEL:
Yes, 10% of the Time. Description 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 Mission Systems is a trusted provider of mission-enabling solutions for global security. We have a wide portfolio of secure, affordable, integrated, and multi-domain systems and technologies. Our differentiated battle management and cyber solutions deliver timely, mission‑enabling information and provide superior situational awareness and understanding to protect the U.S. and its global allies.
Northrop Grumman Mission Systems sector is looking for you to join our team as a Engineer Guidance Navigation Control located in Salt Lake City, UT. To be successful, the engineer must demonstrate experience on guidance, navigation, and control systems (or similar complexity systems), collaboration skills, and excellent written and verbal communication skills.
What you’ll get to do:- Develop, implement, verify and test algorithms and software and simulation tools to perform guidance, navigation and control of aircraft, spacecraft, missiles, launch vehicles and a variety of other end items.
- Process development and maintenance over test operations.
- Develop, improve, and maintain test procedures.
- Continuing process improvement based on data driven metrics.
- Interface with and build relationships across organizations in Salt Lake City, Woodland Hills and other NGC sites.
- Represent the organization to program office and external customer as needed.
The ideal candidate must have good presentation skills with the ability to communicate written and verbally, demonstrate the ability to lead technical projects, including project scope management, budget, schedule, and overall execution.
Basic qualifications for the Engineer Guidance Navigation Control 4:- Bachelor’s degree in engineering or directly related STEM discipline with a minimum of 8 years with bachelor’s in science; 6 years with Master’s; 4 years with PhD.
- Experience collaborating with teams and project leadership.
- 2 or more years of experience guidance and navigation control systems.
- Experience in a manufacturing environment.
- U.S. Citizenship required.
- Must be able to obtain and maintain a Secret clearance.
- Experience with MATLAB.
- Experience with standard Microsoft Office software (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook).
- Experience with database queries techniques.
- SAP experience.
- Data mining experience.
- Experience in a high regulatory environment such as DoD, FAA or FDA.
- Experience using data for decision making.
- Root Cause Corrective Actions experience.
- Six Sigma experience.
- Experience with electromechanical assembly.
Primary Level Salary Range: $ – $
The above salary range represents a general guideline; however, Northrop Grumman considers a number of factors when determining base salary offers such as the scope and responsibilities of the position and the candidate’s experience, education, skills and current market conditions. Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay.
Annual bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions as well as allow employees to share in company results. Employees in Vice President or Director positions may be eligible for Long Term Incentives. In addition, Northrop…
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