Sr Principal Engineer Human Factors

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE:
Relocation assistance may be available. CLEARANCE TYPE:
Secret. TRAVEL:
Yes, 10% of the Time

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.

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 Senior Principal Human Factors Engineer to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals. Position is located in Melbourne, Florida.

The Human Systems Integration team is seeking a Human Factors Engineer (HFE)/User Experience (UX) Designer to join Northrop Grumman. In this position, the new team member will be part of the team ensuring the evolving aircraft hardware and software systems are operable by US military flight and maintenance crews. This position requires a strong background in applying HCI principals to evolving software designs.

Job responsibilities include:

• Support the evaluation of requirements adhering to Human Factors best practices and specified sections of MIL-STD-1472.

• Facilitate the customer’s product vision by conceiving, sketching, and prototyping experiences for digital products with a user centered design approach and consideration to HMI and Human Factors principals

• Be flexible and iterate designs in a fast-paced, sometimes ambiguous environment

• Use one or more industry standard design and prototyping tools to create wireframes, visual designs, and interactive prototypes

• Leads, enables, and is accountable for the preparation, improvement, and integration of the human interface design visuals for the organization

• Confer with subsystem engineers and subject matter experts for project details regarding background information, project parameters and objectives, presentation approaches, styles, and techniques

• Collaboration with Design Integrated Product Teams (IPTs) to ensure evolving design addresses program needs and adheres to Human Interface design requirements

• Contributions to Human Factors Analyses (including but not limited to:
  Task Analyses and Predictive Workload Analyses, Usability studies, Workload, and Situational Awareness surveys).

• Conduct computer based (NX) and empirical accessibility assessments from both an operator and maintainer perspective.

• Author/support the program documentation of the HFE processes and products in a format consistent with US Military Data Item Descriptions (e.g. Human Engineering Program Plan, Human Engineering Design Approach Document – Operator, Human Engineering Design Approach Document – Maintainer, Human Engineering Test Plan, Human Engineering Test Report, et. Al).

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree and 8 years of experience in a Human Factors related field; or a Master's degree and 6 years of experience in a related field; or a PhD and 4 years of experience in a related field.

• Your ability to transfer and maintain the final adjudicated government Secret clearance (DoD must be in-scope or enrolled in Continuous Evaluation) and any program access(es) required for the position within a reasonable period of time, as determined by the Company.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience developing, administering and/or analyzing Human Factors questionnaires such as Usability, Workload, and Situational Awareness.

• Proficiency in writing and executing demonstration & test procedures

• The ability to clearly and accurately express engineering findings orally and in written…