Staff Hardware Engineer - 18474

Northrop Grumman Northrop Grumman · Aerospace · Roy, UT +1 · Material/Process

Staff Hardware Engineer at Northrop Grumman, supporting the Strategic Deterrent Systems Division on the Sentinel (GBSD) program. Responsibilities include overseeing and coordinating mechanical hardware design, evaluating designs, ensuring product quality, supporting PDP delivery, conducting trade studies, identifying risks, and developing designs that meet system requirements and standards. Requires a current DoD Secret clearance and significant experience in mechanical engineering and CAD software.

What you'd actually do

  1. Responsible for overseeing and coordinating mechanical hardware design.
  2. Evaluating mechanical hardware, products, components, and applications by reviewing designs.
  3. Ensures product quality by reviewing mechanical designs and validating that current standards are applied.
  4. Supports the delivery of mechanical hardware PDPs and additional design artifacts.
  5. Supporting structured trade studies to evaluate alternative design solutions to resolve technical issues.

Skills

Required

  • Mechanical Engineering background (Bachelors/Masters/PhD)
  • Mechanical CAD software expertise (Siemens NX preferred)
  • Drawing release or model based engineering environments experience
  • Peer Reviews experience
  • Mentoring Jr Engineers experience
  • Releasing engineering experience
  • Creativity and problem-solving skills
  • Self-motivation and teamwork
  • Supporting Mechanical aspects of Circuit Card Design

Nice to have

  • DoD Top Secret clearance
  • Clearance investigation date within the last 6 years for SAP access
  • Effective communication and presentation skills
  • Siemens NX experience
  • Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing
  • Drawing creation
  • Tolerance stack-up analysis

What the JD emphasized

  • Current DoD Secret clearance with capability for SAP access