RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available
CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: Yes
CLEARANCE TYPE: Secret
TRAVEL: 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.
Join Northrop Grumman on our continued mission to push the boundaries of possible across land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace. Enjoy a culture where your voice is valued and start contributing to our team of passionate professionals providing real-life solutions to our world’s biggest challenges. We take pride in creating purposeful work and allowing our employees to grow and achieve their goals every day by Defining Possible. With our competitive pay and comprehensive benefits, we have the right opportunities to fit your life and launch your career today.
Northrop Grumman Defense has an opening for a Systems Engineer (level 2)/Principal Systems Engineer level 3) to join its team in **Roy, UT **or **Manhattan Beach, CA **supporting the Digital Ecosystem team in building digital engineering capabilities for programs within the SDS Division.
What you will get to do:
The successful candidate will support one or more Digital Ecosystem Integrated Product Teams across the full systems engineering life cycle, from use case development through verification. You will collaborate closely with members across the assigned IPTs and with systems engineers for other Digital Ecosystem IPTs to produce rigorous systems engineering and design artifacts, working with technical teams and stakeholders to develop and mature a system design to provide effective and secure Digital Engineering capability across the SDS Division. Your responsibilities will include engaging user community along with program and government counterparts for use case analysis; defining, allocating, and tracing requirements; ensuring those requirements are accurately represented in the system model; performing functional decomposition and interface definition; and performing verification activities.
In addition, you will develop the system architecture using Cameo Enterprise Architecture, modeling behavioral, structural, and analytical aspects of the solution. You will contribute to ongoing requirements development, management, and analysis while establishing unifying modeling techniques, procedures, and processes that enable seamless model development, tool integration, and team collaboration.
Specific duties to include, but are not limited to the following:
- Collaborate with assigned Digital Ecosystem Integrated Product Teams and with systems engineers for other Digital Ecosystem IPTs to develop rigorous and proper systems engineering and design artifacts.
- Use case development, requirements definition, requirements allocation, requirements traceability, functional decomposition, interface definition, verification.
- Work with test teams to ensure successful checkout and verification of the system
- Perform user acceptance testing and similar engagements to solicit informal and formal user feedback
- Work with technical teams and stakeholders to develop and mature system design as part of the Digital Ecosystem.
- Help develop and incorporate the appropriate requirements for the system and ensure that they are properly represented in the model.
- Develop systems architecture using Cameo Enterprise Architecture (behavioral, structural, analytical).
- Contribute to system requirements development, management, and analysis.
- Develop unifying model techniques, procedures, and processes (for model development, tool integration, and team integration)
Basic Qualifications:
Systems Engineer (Level 2):
- Bachelor's degree in STEM with 2 years of experience, 0 years of experience with master’s degree.
- Must have an active DoD Secret clearance or higher at the time of application.
- Must have the ability to obtain a Top-Secret clearance.
- Must have the ability to obtain and maintain Special Access Program (SAP) approval within a reasonable period, as determined by the company to meet its business need
- 1 year of experience in complex information systems.
- 1 year of experience in creating, updating, and maintaining requirements specifications in DOORS
- 1 year of experience in creating, updating, and maintaining MBSE system and software architecture and design definition in an MBSE tool such as Cameo
Principal Systems Engineer (Level 3):
- Bachelor's degree in STEM with 5 years of related experience, 3 years of related experience with master’s degree, or 1 year of related experience with PhD.
- Must have an active DoD Secret clearance or higher at the time of application.
- Must have the ability to obtain a Top-Secret clearance.
- Must have the ability to obtain and maintain Special Access Program (SAP) approval within a reasonable period, as determined by the company to meet its business need
- 2 years of experience in complex information systems.
- 2 years of experience in creating, updating, and maintaining requirements specifications in DOORS
- 2 years of experience in creating, updating, and maintaining MBSE system and software architecture and design definition in an MBSE tool such as Cameo
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience in software development
- Experience on agile or other incremental/continuous integration and delivery effort
- Experience in team environments with technical leadership responsibilities.
- Experience with defining digital engineering or digital ecosystem capabilities
- Experience with hybrid and cloud-based information system development
- Experience with common data platform, data ingest/synchronization, data analytics, and decision support technologies and applications
- Experience with Artificial Intelligence technologies and applications
- Experience with network infrastructure technologies and applications
- Experience resolving issues and providing technical support.
- Capable of working with minimal direction and in team environments.
- Strong oral and written communication skills, including demonstrated experience with high value customer presentations, with ability to focus on multiple projects with competing priorities.
- Strong understanding and broad application of complex engineering systems (engineering standards, configuration management, material review board, process control, tooling, facilities, software, etc.) for the development of complex systems of systems.
- Experience with defining and building cybersecure information systems.
- Experience with developing systems in joint collaborative environment between contractor and customer.
- ICBM Experience (MMIII or Sentinel).
- Experience with Agile, JIRA, Confluence.
- Experience using Microsoft (MS) Word, Excel, and Power Point.
- Familiar with Teamcenter/CPLM, Primavera, ARM, Gitlab, COBRA, Nexus, SharePoint.
Position Benefits:
As a full-time employee of Northrop Grumman, you are eligible for our robust benefits package including:
- Medical, Dental & Vision coverage
- 401k
- Educational Assistance
- Life Insurance
- Employee Assistance Programs & Work/Life Solutions
- Paid Time Off
- Health & Wellness Resources
- Employee Discounts
This position’s standard work schedule is 9/80. The 9/80 schedule allows employees who work a nine-hour day Monday through Thursday to take every other Friday off.
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Primary Level Salary Range: $79,300.00 - $118,900.00
Secondary Level Salary Range: $98,400.00 - $147,600.00
The above salary range represents a general guideline; however, Northrop Grumman considers a number of factors when determining base salary offers such as the scope and responsibilities of the position and the candidate's experience, education, skills and current market conditions.
Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay. Annual bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions as well as allow employees to share in company results. Employees in Vice President or Director positions may be eligible for Long Term Incentives. In addition, Northrop Grumman provides a variety of benefits including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, savings plan, Company paid holidays and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business.
The application period for the job is estimated to be 20 days from the job posting date. However, this timeline may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates.
Northrop Grumman is an Equal Opportunity Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class. For our complete EEO and pay transparency statement, please visit http://www.northropgrumman.com/EEO. U.S. Citizenship is required for all positions with a government clearance and certain other restricted positions.