Payload Ai&t Lead Staff Systems Engineer

Northrop Grumman Northrop Grumman · Aerospace · Linthicum Heights, MD +1 · Systems/Architecture/Test

Lead Staff Systems Engineer for Payload AI&T at Northrop Grumman, focusing on systems engineering, integration, and test for space systems. Responsibilities include directing SEIT execution, ensuring engineering process integrity, managing cost and schedule, and leading systems engineering tasks for space subsystems. This involves developing and operating custom software tools for analyzing RF data, debugging, troubleshooting, and system compliance assessment within test environments.

What you'd actually do

  1. responsible for directing the execution of the overall systems engineering, integration, and test (SEIT) effort on the program and is responsible for horizontal and vertical integration across all engineering elements of the program.
  2. responsible for leading systems engineering tasks for space subsystems, payloads and/or vehicles.
  3. Responsibilities include leading I&T analysis and tool development, coding/script development to analyze and interpret RF data for the purposes of debug/troubleshooting and system compliance assessment, support various test environments with different analysis needs, create/improve/operate custom SW tools during I&T and operational workflow.

Skills

Required

  • systems engineering
  • integration
  • test
  • coding/script development
  • analysis and interpretation of RF data
  • debug/troubleshooting
  • system compliance assessment
  • custom SW tools development/operation
  • DoD Top Secret security clearance
  • SCI approval/access
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Computer Engineering
  • Computer Science
  • Applied Physics
  • Applied Mathematics

Nice to have

  • Risk and Opportunity Management
  • Earned Value Management (EVMS)
  • Space sensor payloads (antennas, radar, EO/IR, communications)
  • interfacing with large multi-site/multi-division teams

What the JD emphasized

  • Must have an active U.S. Government DoD Top Secret security clearance a time of application, current and within scope, with the ability to obtain and maintain SCI approval/access.
  • SCI
  • Top Secret

Other signals

  • coding/script development to analyze and interpret RF data
  • support various test environments with different analysis needs
  • create/improve/operate custom SW tools during I&T and operational workflow