Consulting Engineer Mission Architect

Description

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.

Join Northrop Grumman Mission Systems sector, focused on the development of new capabilities for our military and intelligence customers around the globe. 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.

Northrop Grumman Strategic Intelligence & Data Exploitation (SI&DE) is an Operating Unit within the larger Northrop Grumman Corporation that is located at multiple sites. You’ll get the opportunity to wrestle with the next big problems in an atmosphere of collaboration and cooperation, sharing your expertise while also learning from other highly gifted and experienced engineers.

We are looking for you to join our team as the Chief Technologist and Mission Architect located in Chantilly, Virginia to focus on the technical direction across the entire SI&DE Operating Unit.

We are looking for a cleared or clearable professional who wants to solve the puzzles that make a difference to our nation’s security with a focus on SIGINT sensor systems air and ground systems. This position requires daily onsite work in Chantilly, VA with regular travel to Sacramento and Woodland Hills, CA and other customer and Northrop Grumman sites.

This role leverages the systems and technologies from across the operating unit and the enterprise to solve some of the world’s most challenging problems, which includes

• Airborne and ground SIGINT technology roadmap creation and execution

• R&D Investment Strategy

• Technical business development inclusive of proposals, white papers and customer engagement

• Serve as SIGINT technology liaison across the corporation

• Program mentorship for technical leaders

As the technology liaison, you will work across the corporation and sectors for Passive and Active SIGINT, Non-kinetic effects and techniques, Cyber, sensor technologies, signal processing, electronic attack techniques, and special comms/waveforms.

A key component of the position includes technical business development and developing customer relationships. These include identifying technology enablers to solve the mission, the ability to present in large groups of unfamiliar people, the ability to develop relationships with customer leaders and technical directors along with generating white papers and proposals.

For programs, you will advise and consult to programs as a subject matter expert, mentor junior engineering staff, and conduct independent reviews of program milestones and technical work products.

You will perform system-of-system trades, analysis of alternatives, modeling, simulation, and analysis to deliver Customer mission effects, data or capabilities. Mission architecture trades may include orbits, air/space vehicles, payloads, ground segments, mission planning, Concepts of Operations (CONOPS), Design Reference Missions (DRM), system security and external interfaces. You will lead mission system element design, capability assessment, mission thread and interface definition, verification/validation planning, and mission integration functions during system development.

Mission is everything to our program teams. Our customers come to us because we have proven time and again, we can meet their challenging requirements and quickly. You will be responsible for communicating with our customers and end users to…