Principal or Sr. Principal Flight Control Actuation System; FCAS Engineer

Principal or Senior Principal Flight Control Actuation System (FCAS) Engineer – El Segundo, CA

Relocation Assistance:
Relocation assistance may be available.

Clearance Required for Start:
No.

Clearance Type:
Secret.

Travel:
Yes, approximately 25% of the time.

Northrop Grumman offers opportunities to work on revolutionary systems that impact people’s lives worldwide.

• Integrate avionics hardware, accounting for hardware capabilities/limitations, defining interfaces, and incorporating required redundancy.
• Support proposal development, technical planning, verification & validation, cost & risk analysis, and trade studies.
• Perform project planning to determine program requirements and develop plans for program execution.
• Interface with external FCAS suppliers and manage external FCAS supplier activities.
• Develop and present materials for internal and external program-related briefings.
• Interact with key cross-discipline stakeholders to achieve program objectives in a timely manner.
• Perform technical and ICD writing, task planning, and technical peer reviews.
• Work on complex technical problems and provide solutions which are highly innovative.
• Collaborate and execute on long-range goals and objectives.
• Develop advanced technological ideas and guide development into a final product.

• Bachelor's Degree in a related STEM field plus 5 years of relevant experience, or Master’s Degree plus 3 years, or PhD plus 1 year.
• Demonstrated experience with avionics development or background in electronics engineering.
• Experience with subsystem integration and developing/maintaining Interface Control Documents (ICDs).
• Experience with requirements management and verification practices.
• Experience developing, testing, and integrating Flight Control Actuation Systems.
• Experience using MATLAB to create, process, analyze, and visually represent data.
• Experience with supplier management; technical artifact review and adjudication as part of development activities.
• Must have the ability to obtain and maintain a US Government Secret clearance and a Special Access Program (SAP).

• Bachelor's Degree in a related STEM field plus 8 years of relevant experience, or Master’s Degree plus 6 years, or PhD plus 4 years.
• Demonstrated experience with avionics development or background in electronics engineering.
• Experience with subsystem integration and developing/maintaining Interface Control Documents (ICDs).
• Experience with requirements management and verification practices.
• Experience developing, testing, and integrating Flight Control Actuation Systems.
• Experience using MATLAB to create, process, analyze, and visually represent data.
• Experience with supplier management; technical artifact review and adjudication as part of development activities.
• Must have the ability to obtain and maintain a US Government Secret clearance and a Special Access Program (SAP).

• Experience with system checkout and troubleshooting practices.
• Active US Government Secret (or equivalent) security clearance or higher.
• Comprehensive knowledge of flight control actuation systems.
• Experience with system redundancy and associated safety analysis.
• Experience performing system-level design and troubleshooting.
• Experience with motor controller software in flight-critical systems.
• Experience with Safety of Flight (SoF) and/or airworthiness certification testing and artifact generation.
• Experience with Agile design teams and tools (Atlassian).
• Understanding of Systems Engineering Principles and Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) tools with a practical focus for relevant use cases in propulsion integration.

Primary Level Salary Range: $ - $.

Secondary Level Salary Range: $ - $.

Benefits include health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, savings plan, company-paid holidays, paid time off for vacation or personal affairs, potential overtime, shift differential, discretionary bonus, and long-term incentives for senior positions.

Applicants must be U.S. citizens and eligible for a US Government Secret clearance and Special Access Program (SAP). The role is a federal contract position requiring compliance with security clearance and citizenship requirements.

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