Senior Staff Radar Modeling Simulation & Analysis Systems Engineer

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

Senior Staff Systems Engineer focused on modeling, simulation, and analysis of advanced radar systems within the defense domain. The role involves architecting simulation frameworks, developing large-scale data analytics, integrating with operational software, and ensuring simulation credibility through verification and validation. Requires C++ and Python programming, with domain experience in Radar/EW/ESM.

What you'd actually do

  1. Utilize Modeling, Simulation, Experimentation, and Analysis (MSE&A) of advanced systems using C++ object-oriented design, advanced data structures and test-driven development.
  2. Develop large scale data analytics, probabilities, and statistics, including the application of design of experiment techniques for the evaluation of system and mission performance.
  3. Integrate MS&A with operational flight software, collecting and analyzing data from laboratory or flight tests, the verification and validation of simulation performance against flight test data, and formally verifying that the models meet specified requirements.
  4. Produce publication quality reports which define the foundation for simulation credibility across all stakeholders and provide the artifacts to support formal simulation Verification, Validation and Accreditation (VVA).
  5. Lead teams to solve problems and architect improvements across MSE&A product lines.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor’s Degree with 14 years of experience, Master’s degree with 12 years of experience, Ph.D. with 10 years of experience in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science or related technical fields; an additional 4 years of experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
  • U.S.-only Citizenship is required
  • A current/active U.S Government Secret clearance.
  • Ability to obtain U.S. Government Top Secret Clearance after hire.
  • Ability to obtain/maintain Special Access Program (SAP) access.
  • Experience with Architecting Software solutions to meet customer requirements
  • Experience with programming languages such as C/C++, Python, Bash or C shell scripting on the Linux and Windows computing environments.
  • Domain experience in simulations of Radar/EW/ESM.
  • Experience with digital signal processing and complex valued signal data.

Nice to have

  • Advanced degrees in Engineering, Computer Science, Applied Physics, Applied Mathematics, or a related technical field.
  • Active U.S Government Top Secret Clearance or higher.
  • Experience leading and coordinating across multi-disciplinary teams
  • Experience developing, Verifying, and Validating Radar/EW/ESM modes.
  • Understanding of the Systems Engineering and Integration & Test processes.
  • Experience leading senior staff to unify technical solutions toward Program and Organization objectives
  • Experience leading junior contributors and building the next generation of MS&A Practitioners
  • Experience with building Customer relationships and inter-agency trust
  • Experience with real-time and/or reactive simulation software applications development.
  • Experience with one or more of the following: statistics, design of experiments, descriptive/diagnostic/predictive/prescriptive analytics, high performance computing.
  • Experience with analytical modeling approaches using MATLAB environment.
  • Familiarity with RF Hardware Architecture.
  • Familiarity with RF Firmware architecture.
  • Experience with LATEX, CUDA, VHDL, cmake, GCC, or other domain specific languages.

What the JD emphasized

  • current/active U.S Government Secret clearance
  • Ability to obtain U.S. Government Top Secret Clearance after hire
  • Ability to obtain Special Access Program (SAP) access