Sr. Principal Air Vehicle System Test Engineer ( Int'l Locations - R10207821-2

Sr. Principal Air Vehicle System Test Engineer ( Various Int'l Locations) - R-2

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.

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE:
No relocation assistance available

CLEARANCE TYPE:
Secret

TRAVEL:
Yes, 100% of the Time

Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems has an opening for a Air Vehicle System Test Engineer - Engineering Field Service Representative (FSR) to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals within our Test and Evaluation (T&E) organization.

This position requires 6+ months training on a Domestic Assignment to Pax River, MD and Rancho Bernardo, CA
. After training, the candidate must, based on business needs, be available for deployment to Japan, Italy, United Arab Emirates, or Guam for a minimum of 24 months. The international location will be selected by Northrop Grumman after training and based on timing and available locations. If no immediate international or Guam deployment location is available, the candidate may be relocated to work at one of our core U.S. locations for the immediate future.

The FSR will be embedded with a US Navy unit and serve as the system subject matter expert, providing training on the system hardware and software, supporting sailors in the unit with system operations, troubleshooting, and routine maintenance. The Navy’s intent is for sailors to be the primary operators and maintainers of the system, with the FSR providing training/assistance as needed to keep the system fully mission capable.

The FSR will receive reach-back/liaison support from Northrop Grumman Responsible Engineering/Development/Test Engineering teams.

• Interfacing with NGC and customer Flight Engineers, aircraft maintenance Technicians, US Navy service members, and Subsystem SMEs in order to sustain operations.
• Primary interface between maintenance, design and flight test engineering.
• Vehicle and Payload Test Controller (VTC/PTC) operations during aircraft start-up/shut down for launch and recovery, conduct static ground tests, and troubleshoot.
• Responsible for providing inputs to update Interactive Electronic Technical Manuals (IETMS).
• Review and provide inputs during engineering development and execute Detailed Test Requirements, Acceptance Test Procedures, and Ground Test Plans.
• Install, operate, troubleshoot, maintain, repair, and modify equipment in accordance with IETMS and/or other engineering directives (TDs/ECRs/TEIs/AMRs/MAFs).
• Perform a variety of organizational/depot-level maintenance and technical support on products such as equipment, integrated systems and subsystems, and software at customer and/or field locations.
• Develop general knowledge of all aircraft systems, VTC/PTC, engineering design and software. Perform field integration, troubleshooting, and repair of air vehicle systems at the customer location including operations on a flight line or in a hangar.
• Interpret and trace electrical and air vehicle schematics. Perform essential electrical and RF troubleshooting using equipment such as multimeter, network/spectrum analyzer, oscilloscope, time‑domain reflectometer (TDR), etc.
• Perform support review and analysis of engineering schematics, supplier design data, support of functional test requirements including acceptance, qualification, and system integration on the air vehicle.

• Bachelor of Science Degree in Science, Technical, Engineering or Math (STEM).
• A minimum of 8 years…