RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available
CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: Yes
CLEARANCE TYPE: Secret
TRAVEL: Yes, 10% of the Time
DescriptionNorthrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems has an opening for a Staff Systems Engineer LTC Capability Lead to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals within our Systems Engineering organization. This role is located in Rancho Bernardo, CA.
In this role, you will fill the role of Global Hawk SEI Long Term Comms (LTC) Capability Lead for the Foreign Military Sales (FMS) Business Area. You will be responsible for leading a diverse engineering design teams to provide imaginative, technical solutions to a wide range of difficult problems across the FMS customers' Global Hawk portfolio. You'll be working across the entire spectrum of the Systems Engineering V-Model, and will support SE disciplines including requirements development, use case development, capability (hardware and software) development, integration planning, lab integration, test planning, formal test, and verification.
Essential Functions:
Leading a multi-disciplinary team of engineers to execute to program objectives and meet technical criteria
Work closely with customers and end users to ensure system requirements, design, risks, and limitations are understood, communicated, and accepted
Lead and execute systems engineering functions to maintain the technical baseline, and to ensure the baseline reflects a cohesive system solution
Responsible for capturing and translating the intent of stakeholders’ mission needs
Ensures the system architecture, operations concepts, and design are affordable, effective and responsive to customer needs and objectives
Utilizes operational experience, architecture, and system knowledge to create innovative system solutions to address stakeholder mission needs
Support the development and validation of system level models used for concept development, design, verification, and validation
Ability to lead team and coordinate with engineering IPTs to minimize technical risk
Leverage your experience supporting Fielded Aircraft Systems, UAV systems, and the full lifecycle of Systems Engineering, including design reviews, requirements decomposition, test planning, and requirements verification
Leverage your experience with ground segment architecture and design and to take concepts and decompose that into executable requirement, architecture and design parameters
Ability to plan, execute a schedule and lead a team towards those goals
Clearly define end user needs and desired capabilities
Define Use Cases into development lifecycle to define system requirements and architecture.
Oversee RE/SME development of sequence diagrams from the use cases.
Utilize operational experience, architecture, and system knowledge to define solutions for stakeholder mission needs
Support the development and validation of system level models used for concept development, design, verification, and validation
Provide technical leadership and oversight for their assigned thread's engineering products and activities.
Development of non-Systems Engineering products will be done by the appropriate SMEs/REs.
Act as a central point of contact for thread, coordinating with multiple teams to ensure a shared understanding and resolve conflicts.
Basic Qualifications:
Must have a 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
Must have an active US Government Secret or higher clearance (with a background investigation completed within the last 6 years or currently enrolled into Continuous Evaluation).
Must have the ability to obtain and maintain Special Access Program (SAP) clearance within a reasonable amount of time as determined by business needs.
Must have previous DOORS experience with requirements management
Must have previous experience with milestone Reviews (e.g.SRR, PDR, CDR, FCA)
Must have previous experience managing Technical Baselines (Functional and Allocated Baselines)
Must have experience with interfaces ICDs
Preferred Qualifications:
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
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
Primary Level Salary Range: $177,000.00 - $265,600.00
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.
