EO/IR Engineer - R10214371
Listed on 2026-01-01
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Engineering
Systems Engineer, Electrical Engineering
EO/IR Engineer - R at Northrop Grumman
Location:
Melbourne, FL
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.
Roles and Responsibilities- Support development and integration of EO/IR subsystems and components to meet platform mission objectives.
- Requirements development, analysis, maturation and implementation translating customer requirements into hardware and software specifications.
- Perform MBSE and capturing requirements, interfaces, behaviors, structures and para metrics.
- Performing functional and performance analyses.
- Conducting detailed trade studies.
- Collaborate with engineers and program stakeholders.
- Developing and maintaining supplier documentation, performance based specifications, and statements of work.
- Review documents from the supplier’s development effort and support supplier technical interchange meetings and design reviews.
- Perform informal and formal testing of subsystem requirements in lab, troubleshooting hardware in the lab.
- Perform aircraft ground and flight test on subsystems to validate and verify subsystem requirement and sell-off.
A successful EO/IR Engineer has good leadership skills and understands the scope of the work and the impact of the work on other teams, consistently brings up concerns, issues and risks to program and technical leadership and holds the team to a high level of technical rigor.
Basic Qualifications- Must have a Bachelor’s degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) discipline from an accredited university AND 2 years of related professional/military experience in Engineering; OR a Master’s degree in a STEM discipline from an accredited university AND 0 years of related professional/military experience in Engineering; or a Ph.D. (STEM) AND 0 years of related professional/military experience in Engineering.
- 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.
- Knowledge of EO/IR phenomenology.
- Experience designing, developing, integrating, and/or testing EO/IR equipment for airborne platforms.
- Experience in EO/IR system and atmospheric modeling.
- Knowledge of digital image processing algorithms.
- Experience in decomposing, deriving, allocating and tracing requirements from system to component level.
- Experience in model based systems engineering using Cameo or similar SysML tools.
- Experience in performance analysis using MATLAB and Excel or similar tools.
- Experience engaging directly with internal and external technical and programmatic representatives.
- Familiarity with Atlassian collaboration tool set (Jira and Confluence).
- Experience in supplier/subcontract management.
- Experience with developing supplier documentation, performance based specifications, and statements of work.
- Experience building supplier evaluation criteria and experience in conducting technical evaluations, documenting results and selection.
- Ability to review documents from the supplier’s development effort and support supplier technical interchange meetings and design review.
Primary Level Salary Range: $77,200.00 - $.
The above salary range…
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