Sentinel - Safety and Security Capability Lead Systems Engineer

Safety & Security Capability Lead (Staff Systems Engineer – Level
5)

Northrop Grumman Defense Systems is seeking a Safety & Security Capability Lead (Staff Systems Engineer – Level
5) to join the team located in Roy UT, Bellevue NE, Huntsville, AL or Manhattan Beach, CA in support of the Sentinel program. Northrop Grumman supports the Air Force's sustainment, development, production and deployment of hardware and system modifications for Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM), Ground and Airborne Launch Control Systems, Launch Facilities, and associated infrastructure.

What you will get to do:

The Safety & Security Capability Lead (Staff Systems Engineer – Level
5) will join the Command Systems team leading activities including requirements definition / allocation, functional decomposition, interface definition, verification & validation, and requirements traceability across the ground segment of the Sentinel Weapon System.

Specific duties to include, but are not limited to the following:

• Lead a small team of systems engineers to develop systems engineering artifacts across the Nuclear Surety, Physical Security, and System Safety capability threads for the Sentinel ground system
• Work with both technical teams and stakeholders to develop and mature allocation of multiple Technical Requirement Documents (NS, Safety) and standards (AFSPCMAN 91-710, AIAA S-113) through the full suite of Command Systems hardware and software products
• Help develop and incorporate the appropriate requirements for the system and ensure that they are properly represented in the model.
• Develop systems architecture using Cameo Enterprise Architecture (behavioral, structural, analytical).
• Contribute to system requirements development, management, and analysis.
• Develop unifying model techniques, procedures, and processes (for model development, tool integration, and team integration.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) with 12 years of experience; or master's degree with 10 years of experience; or PhD with 8 years of experience
• Must be a US Citizen with an active DoD Secret Clearance, at time of application, current and within scope, with an investigation date within the last 6 years.
• Must have the ability to obtain Special Access Program (SAP) approval within a reasonable period, as determined by the company to meet its business needs.
• 4 years of experience with requirements management/analysis/allocations
• 3 years of experience with Model-Based Engineering / Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBE/MBSE) practices, languages and/or tools such as Cameo, Rhapsody or Magic Draw
• 5 years of experience with one or more of the following:
  Command & Control (C2), physical security, cybersecurity, Nuclear Command, Control, and Communications (NC3) systems/processes, communications systems, facility design, military aerospace development (e.g. Sentinel, Minute Man III, B-2, B-21 delivery systems)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Active DoD Top Secret Clearance
• Demonstrated understanding of the Systems Engineering Vee Model
• 3+ years of experience in model-based systems engineering; thread-based system decomposition, requirements engineering, system modeling in SysML
• Experience in documenting Interface Control Documents, Interface Requirement Specifications, and Interface Description Documents
• Understanding of Object-Oriented Systems Engineering Methodology and systems thinking
• Excellent collaboration skills and experience working across product, design, and systems engineering teams with various stakeholder communities
• Proven technical leadership in designing, modeling, and verifying complex, hierarchical State Machines for distributed, real-time command and control architectures. This includes defining clear, deterministic state transitions for critical mission sequences (e.g., Power-On, Daily Monitoring, Targeting/Planning, Countdown, Launch, Abort, and Shutdown)
• Extensive experience developing automated FDIR frameworks and Built-In Test (BIT) strategies (Periodic, Initiated, and Continuous) for high-consequence systems. This includes leveraging fault-tree analysis to design algorithms that…