Principal​/Sr. Principal Vehicle Management Systems Engineer

Overview

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE:
Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE TYPE:
Secret

TRAVEL:
Yes, 10% of the Time

Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems has an opening for a Principal/Sr. Principal Vehicle Management Systems Engineer in Melbourne, Florida. The position is primarily based in office spaces to support the program and business needs, operating on a 9/80 schedule with every other Friday off. No remote or hybrid work is available.

Level: Principal or Senior Principal Vehicle Management Systems Engineer. Primary responsibilities include VMS specification development, requirements definition, functional modeling, and VMS testing. Location, work schedule, and on-site requirements are described above.

Vehicle Management Systems (VMS) Engineer responsibilities include designing and developing system architectures, defining key capabilities and performance requirements, defining design and technology maturity constraints, developing definitions of system external interfaces, defining the implementation approach and operational concept, and ensuring requirements are met with customer evaluation.

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 and software; on-aircraft testing; support to vehicle flight testing; and anomaly resolution. Strong written and verbal communication skills, teamwork, and the ability to organize work, manage time, plan, and prioritize are required.

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

This requisition may be filled at either a Principal Vehicle Management Systems Engineer or Sr. Principal Vehicle Management Systems Engineer.

• Principal Vehicle Management Systems Engineer: 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.
• Principal Vehicle Management Systems Engineer: Bachelor’s Degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) field from an accredited university with 8 years of system architecture definition experience OR a Master’s Degree in STEM with 6 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 the position within a reasonable period of time, as determined by the company.

• Experience using the CAMEO design suite
• Previous experience with design, development, and/or integration of Air Vehicle systems and subsystems in the military aerospace environment
• Prior airworthiness experience
• Experience in electronics hardware and software certification

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Primary Level Salary Range: $95,300.00 - $

Secondary Level Salary Range: $ - $

The above salary range represents a general guideline; however, Northrop Grumman considers a number of factors when determining base salary offers such as the scope and responsibilities of the position and the candidate's experience, education, skills and current market conditions.

Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay. Annual bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions as well as allow employees to share in company results. Employees in Vice President or Director positions may be eligible for Long Term…