Space Mission Systems Design Engineer​/Ground Systems Engineer - Principal​/Sr. P

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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.

is seeking a Principal or Sr Principal Systems Engineer to join our Mission Systems Engineering Integration and Test (MSEIT) 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 on-orbit operations and support.

This position can be staffed in one of our office locations based in Linthicum, MD, Morrisville, NC, and Aurora, CO.

• Work across multiple Space RADAR Payload programs as MSEIT team member supporting requirements, verification, and other Systems Engineering CDRL deliveries.
• Help coordinate larger MSEIT team inputs into specifications, verification documents, CONOPS document, and technical description documents.
• Engage with Mission Partner to maintain system level specification and verification artifacts.
• Maintain segment level, e.g., ground and on-orbit segment, specification and associated verification artifacts.
• Work with lower-level SE organizations, e.g., payload and ground, to maintain element level specifications and verification artifacts.
• Maintain R&V management process and configuration management of MSEIT external deliveries and internal artifacts.
• Work with Configuration Management (CM) to establish, implement, and maintain engineering controls across the larger program.
• Work to establish and maintain lower-level IPT processes (ground/payload SE teams) that integrate into program processing.
• Some travel, approximately once per month, is required to Linthicum, MD, Morrisville, NC, and Aurora, CO.

This position can be staffed at a Principal or Sr. Principal level using the basic qualifications below.

• Principal Engineer:
  Bachelor’s degree in STEM curriculum with 5 years relevant experience; 3 years with MS Degree; or PhD with 0 years of experience.
• Sr Principal Engineer:
  Bachelor’s degree in STEM curriculum with 8 years relevant experience; 6 years with MS Degree; or PhD with 3 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 SCI approval/access.
• The ability to travel approximately once per month, is required to Linthicum, MD, Morrisville, NC, and Aurora, CO.
• Systems engineering experience (e.g., requirements, mission engineering, architecture, modeling and simulation, integration and test, verification and validation)
liExperience with deployed/operational ground systems for tasking space sensor payloads and processing space sensor payload data.
• Experience with R&V teams for Space programs.
• Experience working with application-based software development teams and Agile development processes
• Familiarity with continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipeline and ground software verification and regression testing

• Proponent of process and configuration management.
• Can…