Principal Electronics Engineer - Ground Segment Integrator

Northrop Grumman Northrop Grumman · Aerospace · San Diego, CA +1 · Electrical

This role focuses on integrating and managing ground segment software and hardware for defense systems, involving coordination with suppliers, technical leads, and various engineering teams. It requires managing the full lifecycle of software/hardware performance and ensuring correct documentation and reporting.

What you'd actually do

  1. Coordinating the efforts of the supplier for multiple software programs and efforts and seeing projects through from start to finish. Coordinate with the subcontracts management team, systems engineering, supplier quality assurance representatives, safety engineers, cyber team, test team, logistics engineers, cost account manager, and scheduler.
  2. Coordinating and managing the execution of all phases of software/hardware performance, including planning, new capability development, testing, deliveries, deployment, and sustainment.
  3. Reviewing supplier software product documentation
  4. Reporting supplier status to management

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor’s Degree in a STEM discipline and 5 years of related engineering experience; OR a Master’s degree in a STEM discipline and 3 years of related engineering experience; OR a PhD in a STEM discipline
  • Ability to transfer and maintain the final adjudicated U.S. government Secret clearance

Nice to have

  • Understanding of Ground System architecture including UAV Command and Control (C2), classified and unclassified networks, network storage devices, security appliances and government external interfaces
  • Knowledge of, or experience with, common ground approaches, implementations, components, standards, interfaces, constraints, and security needs
  • Demonstrated experience with Ground Segment
  • Experience managing hardware and Software related issues with a supplier-based interaction as part of a Government/DOD contract
  • Familiarity with full hardware integration and Software Development Life Cycles
  • Experience with government acquisition related to hardware and software development, and sustainment activities
  • Experience with Agile software development, integration, and testing
  • Experience with programming and scripting languages
  • Familiarity with Prime and supplier proposal development including technical evaluations of supplier proposals

What the JD emphasized

  • Secret clearance
  • Secret