Vehicle Management Systems Engineer​/Principal Engineer - R10216212

Vehicle Management Systems Engineer / Principal Engineer

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Relocation assistance may be available.

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.

Please note that this opportunity is contingent on program funding. Start dates are determined after funding confirmation.

Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems has an opening for a Vehicle Management Systems Engineer / Principal Engineer to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals. This position is located in Melbourne, Florida. This requisition may be filled at a higher grade based on qualifications listed below.

Vehicle Management Systems (VMS) Engineer requires coursework and/or experience in aircraft vehicle management systems. A VMS engineer designs and develops system architectures, and defines key capabilities and performance requirements. The engineer defines design and technology maturity constraints of the system in accordance with customer specifications, develops a thorough definition of system external interfaces, defines system implementation approach and operational concept, and ensures requirements are met and evaluates performance with the customer.

Duties include flight‑critical system design for aircraft control; architecture design with optimized redundancy levels; trade studies; specification of hardware elements and technical support to procurement; vehicle‑management software specification and oversight; fault‑management design; lab testing of flight hardware & software; on‑aircraft testing; support to vehicle flight testing; and anomaly resolution. We seek candidates with strong written and verbal communication skills, the ability to work as part of a team, and the ability to organize work, manage time, plan, and prioritize.

Primary responsibilities will include VMS specification development, requirements definition, functional modeling, and VMS testing. The engineer will support subsystems to VMS interfaces, including managing requirements, design, testing and presenting updates to internal and external customers.

• Bachelor’s Degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) field from an accredited university with 2 years of system architecture definition experience.
• Experience with at least one of the following technical disciplines: subsystem integration and test, data bus architecture definition, system integrity analysis, Vehicle Management Systems architecture development.
• Your ability to transfer and maintain the final adjudicated government Secret clearance, and any program access(es) required for the position within a reasonable period of time, as determined by the company.

• Bachelor’s Degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) field from an accredited university with 5 years of system architecture definition experience OR a Master’s Degree in STEM with 3 years of system architecture definition experience.
• Experience with at least one of the following technical disciplines: subsystem integration and test, data bus architecture definition, system integrity analysis, VMS architecture development.
• Your ability to transfer and maintain the final adjudicated government Secret clearance, and any program access(es) required for…