Principal​/Sr. Principal Flight Sciences Engineer

Principal Flight Sciences Engineer (Level
3) Or Senior Principal Flight Sciences Engineer (Level
4)

Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems is seeking a Principal Flight Sciences Engineer (Level
3) OR Senior Principal Flight Sciences Engineer (Level
4) to join the Vehicle Engineering Center of Technical Excellence.

The Vehicle Engineering (VE) Center of Technical Excellence (CoTE) is positioned to drive robust and efficient vehicle development activities within the Aeronautics Systems (AS) Engineering organization by equipping our teams with the processes, tools, and technical training needed to succeed and grow. Leaders within the VE CoTE team are at the heart of our relentless pursuit of engineering excellence, driving sustained improvement and ensuring that our technical capabilities stay ahead of emerging challenges and opportunities.

The Vehicle Engineering CoTE organization is hiring a Flight Sciences (FS) Engineer with a background in one or more FS discipline areas. The candidate will have a mechanical, electrical, aerospace, or software skillset ideally aligned to a technical background in Mass Properties or another FS discipline, such as Loads & Dynamics, Guidance, Navigation and Control (GNC), Vehicle Management Systems (VMS), Aerodynamics, Performance, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), Configuration, or Propulsion.

The candidate will perform functional analysis, timeline analysis, detail trade studies, and requirements allocation studies to translate customer, product or derived requirements into hardware and software specification requirements. These activities will be conducted in collaboration with Mass Properties engineers and other technical leaders within the FS communities of practice. The candidate will be required to analyze and understand aircraft configurations and flight conditions to develop processes and related tools to characterize system behavior – tools utilized may include solid modeling tools, database tools, and/or custom applications.

The candidate will provide technical expertise on Mass Properties or another FS discipline area, advising and partnering with program engineering teams to drive execution efficiencies. As such, the ideal candidate is a proactive, self-starter that can achieve results with minimal direction, possessing strong people, organizational, presentation, and communication skills.

This position supports all the Aeronautics Systems (AS) business divisions across our primary geographic sites, including Melbourne, FL;
Palmdale, CA;
San Diego, CA; and South Bay (El Segundo / Redondo Beach / Manhattan Beach), CA;
Oklahoma City, OK;
Iuka, MS; and Moss Point, MS.

While the position provides support to all AS sites, the primary location for the selected candidate will be Melbourne, FL.

Key Responsibilities may include, but are not limited to:

• Perform as the subject matter expert (SME) in FS tool capabilities and propose solutions that align programmatic requests with current tool architectures
• Serve as a technical lead over major Mass Properties and FS homegrown tools with the ability to add complementary tools based on future requirements for air vehicle development activities
• Lead multi-language development over a portfolio of FS applications that require working knowledge of C#, XAML, SQL, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Visual Basic, .NET, and/or Python
• Lead alignment between engineering release systems and Mass Properties or FS databases, supporting the development and expansion of a Digital Engineering Ecosystem
• Support application deployment into programmatic environments with various levels of security classifications

Basic Qualifications:

This requisition may be filled at a Principal Aeronautical Engineer (Level
3) OR Senior Principal Aeronautical Engineer (Level
4) level based on the qualifications below.

Principal Aeronautical Engineer (Level
3)

• Must have a Bachelor's Degree in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, or Math) discipline and 5 years of related professional/military experience; OR a Master's Degree in a STEM discipline and 3 years of related professional/military experience; OR a Ph.D. in a STEM discipline and 1 year of related…