RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: No relocation assistance available
CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: Yes
CLEARANCE TYPE: Secret
TRAVEL: No
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.
Northrop Grumman Space Systems, Multi-Domain Operations, and Missile Defense Integration Business Unit (BU) has an exciting career opportunity for a **Systems Engineer – Level 5 ** to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals. This position will be in Huntsville, AL.
Position Overview:
The selected Systems Engineer – Level 5 responsibilities will include the support of the Ground Weapons System (GWS) program as an individual contributor on the (MBSE) Model Based Systems Engineering and Systems Safety team. This role is responsible for developing systems engineering and safety engineering products that directly support the design and development of the GWS capability on behalf of the Missile Defense Agency (MDA).
Essential Functions:
- Decompose customer specification documents into Clear, Verifiable, and Achievable requirements utilizing DOORS.
- Develop Verification Compliance Strategizes that detail how we plan to verify derived requirements and what data is required to provide the evidence.
- Own requirement or verification packages, and hold reviews and adjudicating comments from Product Teams, SMES, and the Customer to baseline Packages.
- Own development of systems safety engineering packages for GWS (including safety analysis and modeling efforts)
The selected candidate should thrive in a fast-paced work environment with high expectations, significantly diverse assignments, and collaborative/teams comprised of all experience levels.
Basic Qualifications:
- Systems Engineer Level 4: Bachelor’s Degree in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) discipline from an accredited university and 12 years of related work experience, or a Master's Degree in STEM and 10 years of related work experience, or a PhD. and 8 years of related work experience.
- Applicants must have a current active in-scope U.S. Government DoD issued Secret security clearance at the time of application.
- 6+ years of experience with requirements decomposition and management
- Working knowledge of systems engineering principles and processes
- Verification experience or knowledge
- Experience with requirements management tools such as DOORS
- Experience developing Certification or Verification packages for all levels of requirements (including safety requirements for operations, flight test, and ground test)
- Experience developing systems engineering and systems safety products in an Agile environment
- System Safety Engineering experience conducting comprehensive system safety analyses IAW MIL-STD-882E, including Preliminary Hazard Analysis (PHA), Functional Hazard Analysis (FHA), System Hazard Analysis (SHA), and Operating & Support Hazard Analysis (O&SHA) to ensure compliance and mitigate operational risks
- Missile Defense Weapon System experience
- Must be able to work on-site in an office environment.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with Requirement Verification methods such as Test
- GMD Knowledge
- Associate Safety Professional (ASP) / Certified Safety Professional (CSP) Certificate
- Demonstrated independent planning, organization, and working in cross-functional teams with a customer focus
- Familiarity with Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) and associated tools
- INCOSE or System Engineering certification
Primary Level Salary Range: $169,000.00 - $253,600.00
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.