Staff Systems Engineer - Ltc Design/architecture/integration

Northrop Grumman Northrop Grumman · Aerospace · San Diego, CA +1 · Systems/Architecture/Test

Staff Systems Engineer role at Northrop Grumman focused on Long Term Comms (LTC) Design, Architecture, and Integration for the Global Hawk program, supporting Foreign Military Sales (FMS) customers. The role involves leading engineering teams, managing the technical baseline, translating mission needs into system solutions, and supporting the full Systems Engineering V-Model lifecycle from requirements to verification and milestone reviews. Requires a STEM Bachelor's degree with significant experience, a Secret clearance, and experience with requirements management tools like DOORS and technical baselines.

What you'd actually do

  1. Work closely with customers and end users to ensure system requirements, design, risks, and limitations are understood, communicated, and accepted
  2. Execute systems engineering functions to maintain the technical baseline, and to ensure the baseline reflects a cohesive system solution
  3. Responsible for capturing and translating the intent of stakeholders’ mission needs and objectives
  4. Utilizes operational experience, architecture, and system knowledge to create innovative system solutions to address stakeholder mission needs
  5. Support the development and validation of system level models used for concept development, design, verification, and validation

Skills

Required

  • Bachelors degree in a STEM field and at least 12 years of relevant military / professional experience, OR a Master's Degree in a STEM field and at least 10 years of relevant military / professional experience, OR a PhD and at least 8 years of relevant military / professional experience
  • active US Government Secret or higher clearance
  • previous DOORS experience with requirements management
  • previous experience managing Technical Baselines (Functional and Allocated Baselines)
  • experience with integration and interfaces ICDs

Nice to have

  • Experience with RQ-4 air vehicle, ground segment, sensor payloads, COMMS and support equipment
  • Experience with FMS customers
  • Experience with FMS operations
  • Experience with FMS architecture
  • Experience with MBSE
  • Requirements verification and validation experience including generating Requirements Verification Plans (RVPs), generating Requirements Verification Reports (RVRs), verification sell-off. Preferred Functional Configuration Audit (FCA) experience.
  • Experience with Use Case generation
  • Experience as Segment-Level Systems Engineer
  • Active TS/SCI
  • MS degree in STEM field

What the JD emphasized

  • Secret or higher clearance
  • Secret
  • Secret or higher clearance (with a background investigation completed within the last 6 years or currently enrolled into Continuous Evaluation)