Systems Engineer - Air to Ground

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE:
Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START:
Yes

CLEARANCE TYPE:
Secret

TRAVEL:
Yes, 10% of the Time

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.

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 Mission Systems has an opening for a Staff Systems Engineer (Air-to-Ground) to join our organization. Our organization within Northrop Grumman Mission Systems offers the opportunity to join a team to solve problems in the field and drive new solutions into next generation systems across a wide variety of platforms and environments. You will support the Systems Engineering Integration and Test (SEIT) team on multiple major development programs.

This position is based out of Linthicum, MD and will be 100% on-site.

• Lead development of radar system architectures for air‑to‑ground missions, ensuring alignment with platform and mission needs (e.g., SAR, ISAR, GMTI/T, Targeting, Weather, Surface Return, Sea Surface Search, Ship Track, etc.).
• Define and partition system‑level requirements, performance budgets, and interfaces across RF, processing, software, and platform teams.
• Direct and review trade studies on waveforms, antenna design, processing architectures, and CONOPS/mission scenarios.
• Lead radar performance modeling and simulation (end‑to‑end link budgets, coverage, detection/tracking performance, clutter and interference analysis).
• Guide development and evaluation of Air‑to‑Ground concepts and algorithms from a systems perspective.
• Make data‑driven recommendations and decisions to optimize performance, cost, schedule, and technical risk.
• Define verification strategies and test architectures from lab through flight test for new and evolved radar capabilities.
• Oversee integration and test campaigns, including test planning, execution oversight, data analysis, and discrepancy resolution.
• Drive root cause investigations and corrective actions for complex system‑level issues.
• Represent the radar system engineering team in technical reviews (SRR, PDR, CDR, TRR) and risk/issue boards.
• Interface directly with customers to present technical approaches, performance results, and roadmaps.
• Support business development, including capture strategy, concept…