Sentinel- Mechanical Engineer/principal Mechanical Engineer - 18743

Northrop Grumman Northrop Grumman · Aerospace · Huntsville, AL +1 · Mechanical

Mechanical Engineer role focused on conceptual and preliminary design, technology maturation, and system engineering for advanced missile subsystems and support systems. Involves trade studies, architecture development, and ensuring designs meet performance, cost, schedule, and risk thresholds. Requires a Secret clearance and experience in design, manufacturing, or test engineering, particularly with government weapon systems.

What you'd actually do

  1. Provide technical contributions to a growing Advanced Programs Missile Subsystem team for conceptual and preliminary design and technology maturation of new advanced concepts for future deterrence needs in the areas of cruise missiles and support systems/subsystems.
  2. Develop design concepts for launcher capsule and provide technical oversight for avionics and airframe design, with an emphasis on minimizing impacts to Navy operations and re-use of existing launch systems.
  3. Contribute to trade studies, architecture development, and system engineering, including producibility and affordability design influence, to produce credible conceptual and preliminary weapon system designs that meet potential customers' performance, cost, schedule, and risk thresholds while informing them of the surrounding design space for capability considerations, especially capability versus life cycle and cost versus technical availability date.
  4. Operate in an advanced design environment and collaborate across the Division and Suppliers as required to accomplish the team goals
  5. Transition innovative solutions, technologies, and advanced concepts for US strategic deterrence interests to programs of record for product development and fielding.

Skills

Required

  • Aerospace or Mechanical Engineering or related STEM field degree
  • 2-5 years of relevant experience
  • U.S. citizen
  • Secret clearance
  • design engineering, manufacturing engineering, or test engineering experience
  • government weapon system support system conceptual and preliminary design experience
  • design analysis cycles experience
  • cost versus capability trade studies experience
  • multi-design discipline integration experience
  • ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, and/or weapon support system design experience
  • attention to detail
  • follow-through
  • time management skills
  • verbal/written communication skills
  • proactive interpersonal initiative
  • self-motivated
  • able to work productively and independently

Nice to have

  • Active Top Secret clearance
  • Operational experience with Navy Strategic Weapons Facilities
  • Experience with Navy Programs and submarine operations
  • digital design experience
  • model based engineering (CAMEO) experience
  • modeling and simulation tools and processes experience
  • nuclear hardened strategic systems experience
  • Directed Trade Studies experience
  • creating 3D models in Computer Aided Design (CAD) systems (NX, Catia, Solidworks, etc.)
  • using an industry-standard Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) System such as TeamCenter
  • performing structural and thermal analysis
  • design, development, and analysis for Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) and Electromagnetic Environmental Effects (E3)
  • designing to Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T) Standards

What the JD emphasized

  • Secret clearance
  • Secret clearance
  • Secret clearance