Systems Engineer / Principal Systems Engineer - Nuclear Surety

Northrop Grumman Northrop Grumman · Aerospace · Melbourne, FL +1 · Systems/Architecture/Test

Systems Engineer / Principal Systems Engineer role at Northrop Grumman focused on nuclear surety for military aircraft or weapon systems. Responsibilities include performing and supporting design evaluations for nuclear surety requirement compliance, requirement derivation, verification processes, system architecture examinations, and coordinating with stakeholders. Requires a Secret clearance and experience with military aircraft or weapon system design and/or operation. The role may be filled at either the Base or Principal level.

What you'd actually do

  1. perform and support evaluations of designs for nuclear surety requirement compliance
  2. support IPTs on the implementation and demonstration of nuclear surety requirement compliance to include hardware, software, and test support
  3. support Nuclear Safety Design Certification activities to produce required artifacts in accordance with AFI 63-125, lead and support nuclear surety planning, certification assessments, and risk & vulnerability activities to include Fault Tree and Signal Path analyses
  4. coordinate with key stakeholders such as AFNWC, AFSEC, NNSA, and AFGSC

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor of Science degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) discipline
  • Systems Engineer: 2 years of experience OR a Master of Science degree in a STEM discipline
  • Principal Systems Engineer: Bachelor of Science degree in a STEM discipline and 5 years of experience OR a Master of Science degree in a STEM discipline and 3 years of experience OR a PhD in a STEM discipline with 1 year of experience
  • Experience with military aircraft or weapon system design and/or operation to include requirements verification and certification
  • active DoD Secret clearance or higher
  • ability to obtain and maintain Special Access Program (SAP) clearance

Nice to have

  • Experience working with Nuclear Surety Requirements (e.g. AFI 63-125, AFMAN 91-118/91-119, AFI 91-107, AFI 91-101)
  • Experience with Fault Tree Analyses, Signal Path Analyses, Technical Risk Assessments, or other safety-related analyses
  • Experience with Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE)
  • Experience interpreting, deriving, allocating, or managing technical requirements
  • Experience with software development
  • Experience with nuclear weapons design, manufacture, development, or operations
  • Familiarity with MIL-STD-1553 and MIL-STD-1760
  • Demonstrated experience with nuclear certification stakeholders such as AFNWC, AFSEC, NNSA, and AFGSC
  • DoD Top Secret / SCI Clearance

What the JD emphasized

  • Secret clearance
  • nuclear surety requirement compliance
  • nuclear surety planning
  • nuclear surety requirement compliance