Radiation & Survivability Engineering NG Fellow 1

Radiation & Survivability Engineering NG Fellow 1

Northrop Grumman's Space Systems Sector is seeking a Radiation & Survivability Engineering NG Fellow 1 to join our team. This role can be located at any of our major Northrop Grumman locations within the continental United States, and the position requires the work to be conducted onsite at one or more of these locations. These major worksite locations include (but are not limited to):
Redondo Beach, CA;
Azusa, CA;
Gilbert, AZ;
Aurora, CO;
Huntsville, AL; and Dulles, VA along with others across the continental United States. The selected individual will play an instrumental role in developing, evolving, and leading technological strategy in this skill area for the broader organization.

Northrop Grumman Fellows are recognized experts in their fields who solve the hardest technical problems while ensuring we retain the hard-won insights needed to perform complex tasks successfully. These leaders define possible in our most important technical capability areas while identifying and cultivating essential people, processes, and tools. They are deployed against critical programs and captures, aligned with our sector's top business priorities, and advance our products and solutions to meet customers' missions every day.

The ideal candidate will set and drive strategy for a broad set of technical initiatives and be empowered to make decisions that significantly impact annual operating plans (AOP), long-range strategic plan (LRSP) outcomes, and the Technology Roadmap. The Northrop Grumman Fellow is expected to provide scientific, technical, intellectual leadership, as well as analytical support contributing to the advancement of growth goals.

The candidate must also have a strong grasp of campaign execution, networking strategy, and possess the skills, drive, and judgement to successfully interface with senior leaders/technologists across the company and customer community.

The Radiation & Survivability Engineering Fellow is the enterprise authority for space radiation effects, nuclear hardness & survivability, and system hardening. The Fellow will shape and enforce program execution strategy, define enterprise technical standards, and drive the development of cutting-edge methodologies sector-wide. The Fellow will interface with and engage on programs sector-wide to ensure mission-critical electronics, materials, and systems can survive and operate in natural space radiation and nuclear hardness & survivability-related environments.

This senior role requires deep expertise in total ionizing dose (TID), single event effects (SEE), displacement damage (DD), Prompt Dose, System Generated EMP (SGEMP), neutron effects, Micrometeoroids and Orbital Debris (MMOD), Atomic Oxygen (ATOX) effects, and emerging threat domains in space and nuclear attack scenarios. The Fellow will be pivotal in establishing standardized sector practice, assisting in evaluation and negotiation of process development and tool use across various regions nationwide.

The Fellow will act as the primary technical liaison with customers, government agencies, national laboratories, and industry/academic partners, influencing standards and guiding long-range technology investments that provide strategic capability and agility for the Space Systems sector and the broader enterprise.

* This position is contingent upon the candidate obtaining final clearances and program access(es) within a reasonable period of time as determined by the company. Continued employment thereafter will be subject to maintenance of the level of clearance and program access required for the position in the future.

Job responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:

Leadership Skills

-Strong stakeholder management skills, including presenting solutions to senior leadership.

-Experience in leading organizational change and ensuring successful adoption of new technologies and best practices.

-Experience mentoring junior engineers and fostering a culture of continuous improvement.

-Ability to influence and gain buy-in from key stakeholders, ensuring alignment and successful project delivery.

Technical Authority & Standards

-Serve as the recognized enterprise authority in radiation effects, nuclear hardness & survivability, and system hardening.

-Maintain current knowledge of evolving space and nuclear threats and their impact on electronics, materials, and systems.

-Establish technical standards, best practices, and acceptance criteria for Radiation Hardness Assurance (RHA).

-Guide selection and application of advanced test methodologies (heavy ion, proton, pulsed-laser SEE, combined-environment testing, etc.).

-Integrate multi-physics understanding, including device physics, materials science, system architecture, environment modeling.

Investigation & Innovation

-Lead root-cause investigations for anomalous radiation-induced failures at the system and mission level.

-Resolve novel, high-consequence survivability challenges where little…