EO​/IR Engineer - R10214381

Job Overview

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.

Melbourne, FL. Travel 10% of the time.

Relocation assistance may be available.

Secret clearance required.

Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems has an opening for an EO/IR Engineer in Melbourne, FL. The selected engineer will work as part of an interdisciplinary team on a key effort to develop novel and innovative solutions to advanced technical problems. Responsibilities include contributing to the overall development of electro‑optical infrared (EO/IR) subsystems, creating functional architectures, analyzing performance, developing and managing requirements and interfaces, and verifying/validating all allocated requirements.

You will design, develop, build, and test EW systems in conjunction with key suppliers.

• Support development and integration of EO/IR subsystems and components to meet platform mission objectives.
• Develop, analyze, mature, and implement requirements translating customer needs into hardware and software specifications.
• Perform MBSE and capture requirements, interfaces, behaviors, structures, and para metrics.
• Conduct functional and performance analyses.
• Perform detailed trade studies.
• Collaborate with engineers and program stakeholders.
• Develop and maintain supplier documentation, performance‑based specifications, and statements of work.
• Review documents from the supplier’s development effort and support 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 requirements and sell‑off.

• Must have a Bachelor’s degree in a 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 and 0 years of experience, or a Ph.D. in STEM with 0 years of experience.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a government Secret clearance and any required program access 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 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, 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 developing supplier documentation, performance‑based specifications, and statements of work.
• Experience building supplier evaluation criteria and 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 reviews.

Primary Level Salary Range: $77,200.00 – $.

Employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential,…