Mission Management Hardware Engineer

Requisition ID:
R10179512

• Category:
  Engineering
• Location:
  Melbourne, Florida, United States of America
• Clearance Type:
  Secret
• Telecommute:
  No- Teleworking not available for this position
• Shift:
  1st Shift (United States of America)
• Travel Required:
  Yes, 10% of the Time
• Relocation Assistance:
  Relocation assistance may be available
• Positions Available:
  1

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.

This position is currently contingent on program award and associated program award funding. Start dates are determined after funding confirmation.

Please note:
Only external candidates and NG employees who are not currently in AS Engineering will be considered under this requisition.

Northrop Grumman's Aeronautics Systems sector is seeking a Mission Management Hardware Engineer to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals in defining the future. This position will be located in Melbourne, FL.

The selected engineer will perform as a member of an interdisciplinary team on a key effort to develop novel and innovative solutions to advanced technical problems. The successful engineer will contribute to the overall development of Electronic Warfare subsystems, including developing functional architectures, analyzing performance, developing and managing requirements and interfaces, and verifying/validating all allocated requirements. You will design, develop, build, and test EW systems in conjunction with key suppliers.

The Mission Management HW engineer in this role will be responsible for one or more of the following:

• Support development and integration of Mission Management HW and components to meet platform mission objectives

• Requirements development, analysis, maturation and implementation translating customer requirements into hardware and software specifications

• Perform MBSE and capturing requirements, interfaces, behaviors, structures and parametrics

• Performing functional and performance analyses

• Conducting detailed trade studies

• Collaborate with engineers and program stakeholders

• Developing and maintaining supplier documentation, performance-based specifications, and statements of work

• Review documents from the supplier's development effort and support supplier technical interchange meetings and design reviews

• Perform informal and formal testing of subsystem requirements in lab, troubleshooting hardware in the lab

• Perform aircraft ground and flight test on subsystems to validate and verify subsystem requirement and sell-off

A successful Mission Management HW Engineer has good leadership skills and understands the scope of the work and the impact of the work on other teams, consistently brings up concerns, issues and risks to program and technical leadership and holds the team to a high level of technical rigor.

Basic Qualifications:

Mission Management Hardware Engineer (T02):

• Must have a Bachelor's degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) discipline from an accredited university AND 2 years of related professional/military experience in Engineering; OR a Master's degree in a STEM discipline from an accredited university AND 0 years of related professional/military experience in Engineering.

• Your ability to transfer and maintain the final adjudicated government Secret clearance, and any program access(es) required for the position within a reasonable period of time, as determined by the company.

• Experience in PC computer architecture and associated elements:
  processing hardware, operating systems, board support packages, messaging middleware, networking standards/protocols (e. g. 1553, 1394, Ethernet), or data storage

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with integration of COTS electronics into military systems

• Possess a DODD 8570 certifications, such as CompTIA Security+, CISSP, or similar network/security certifications

• Experience with embedded systems, Unix or Linux operating systems, single board computers, networking components, Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA), single board computers and Network Attached Storage (NAS) solutions

• Experience in decomposing, deriving, allocating and tracing requirements from system to component level

• Experience in model-based systems engineering using Cameo or similar SysML tools

• Experience engaging directly with internal and external technical and programmatic representatives

• Familiarity with Atlassian collaboration tool set (Jira and Confluence)

• Experience in supplier/subcontract management

• Experience with developing supplier documentation, performance-based specifications, and statements of work

• Experience building supplier evaluation criteria and experience in conducting technical evaluations, documenting results and selection

• Ability to review documents from the supplier's development effort and support supplier technical interchange meetings and design review

Northrop Grumman is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action 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/AA a.