RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: No relocation assistance available
CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: Yes
CLEARANCE TYPE: Top Secret
TRAVEL: Yes, 10% of the Time
DescriptionWe are seeking a cleared
Sr.Staff Systems Engineer for a critical leadership role in our Systems Engineering Group as a key contributor to the successful completion of
RF Communications projects. Professionals who want to solve the challenges that make a difference to our nation’s security.
Please be aware that this position will be contingent upon obtaining funding, customer approval and holding final clearances prior to start date. *
This position is perfect for a candidate who can lead design efforts to produce new hardware products at the Xetron facility that support National Defense partners. The products produced at this facility support all domains of intelligence and defense battlespaces including land, sea, air and space. Many of the problem-sets our customers expect us to solve do not have known solutions, so ingenuity is essential.
The senior principal systems engineer has overall technical responsibility for the electrical design, development, integration, and test for the development project and serves as the primary point of contact for the external customer and internal development engineering team. Ideal candidates for this position have substantial breadth and depth of knowledge in all aspects of engineering with a focus on producing deployable hardware products derived from generalized customer mission objectives and goals into traceable requirements. The candidate must have the ability to independently form innovative solutions to difficult problems and lead teams of highly skilled engineers to execute these solutions and act as the link between technical and business goals of the project.
Typical teams are 5-10 people and require our engineers to have diverse skill sets that apply to the entire lifecycle of a program. This position allows the candidate to have direct contact with our end customers and end operators of our products, which allows for pragmatic and early feedback from the user community during the design process. Preferred technical background includes experience with collaborating across engineering teams to resolve and integrate technical/engineering requirements and verify their incorporation into the resulting product.
Candidates for this position should have:
- Substantial breadth and depth of knowledge in all aspects of engineering with a focus on producing deployable RF sensors and collection systems
- Engineering team leadership and direct technical contribution with RF hardware communication and collection design projects
- Experience in extracting derived requirements and generating system architectures from mission-level concept of operations (ConOps)
- Previous direct contact with end customers in the creation and development of project technical reviews and documentation.
- Preferred technical background includes experience with design improvements, requirements management, especially in relationship to reliability, maintainability, and supportability.
Examples of programs and products executed at Xetron include:
- RF communication and collection systems
- RF electronic warfare (EW) systems
- Unique waveform communication products
- Innovative Digital Signal Processing (DSP) solutions
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor of Science Degree in Engineering, or other STEM degree, plus 14 years of progressive experience OR Master of Science degree plus 12 years of progressive experience, OR PhD plus 9 years of progressive experience
- Recent design experience and a track record of successful RF product designs.
- Experience leading engineering teams from various disciplines in a recent technical development project
- Experience in assessing project status in terms of technical, cost, and schedule execution
- US Citizenship is required
- Active Top-Secret clearance
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience as an IPT lead, functional lead, or leadership in the military
- Experience with model-based system engineering concepts and platforms, such as Cameo
- Experience with ISO/IEC/IEEE 15288, MIL-STD-499, and/or INCOSE system engineering life-cycle processes
- Experience integrating antenna, RF subsystems, and processing hardware/software into a complete system
- RF modeling, simulation, and analysis including link budgets
- MATLAB knowledge and/or experience
- Demonstrated ability to quickly learn and apply varied technologies
- Ability to perform as liaison to the customer for all engineering efforts
- Ability to collaborate in a team environment.
Primary Level Salary Range: $175,300.00 - $262,900.00
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.
