Sr. Principal Weapon Stores Management Subsystem Responsible Engineer

Sr. Principal Weapon Stores Management Subsystem Responsible Engineer

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.

Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems has opening for a Sr. Principal Weapon Stores Management Subsystem Responsible Engineer at our Melbourne, FL campus and will be based within our office spaces to support the program and business needs. Operating on our 9/80 schedule means you will get every other Friday off. This position has NO HYBRID OR REMOTE WORK AVAILABLE.

This position requires a Program Security Clearance to be obtained prior to starting in the role. The selected engineer will perform as a member of an interdisciplinary team in a key effort to develop novel and innovative solutions to advanced technical problems. The successful engineer will contribute to the overall development of stores management subsystems, including developing functional architectures, analyzing performance, developing and managing requirements and interfaces, and verifying/validating all allocated requirements.

You will work with cross-disciplinary teams to design, develop, build, and test stores management subsystems in conjunction with key suppliers.

Essential Functions:

• Lead and support development and integration of stores management subsystems and components to meet platform mission objectives
• Requirements development, analysis, maturation and implementation, translating customer requirements into hardware and software specifications
• Lead and support functional and performance analyses
• Lead and support detailed trade studies
• Lead and support risk analysis and developing mitigation plans and tracking to closure
• Collaborating with other disciplines, product teams and program stakeholders
• Technical management of program strategic partners and suppliers, including development, acquisition, acceptance, qualification, system integration and test support
• Identifying/planning/executing informal and formal testing of subsystem requirements in lab, troubleshooting hardware in the lab
• Identifying/planning/executing aircraft ground and flight test on subsystems to validate and verify subsystem requirement and sell-off
• Lead and support technical discussions with the customer and have daily interaction with management, external personnel, customers, and various sub teams
• Guiding the team through development/implementation activities.

A successful Sr. Principal Weapons SMS Responsible 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 Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) discipline from an accredited university AND 8 years of related professional/military experience in Engineering; OR a Master's degree in a STEM discipline from an accredited university AND 6 years of related professional/military experience in Engineering; or a Ph.D. AND 4 years of related professional/military experience in Engineering.
• Experience in Weapons Integration or developing Stores Management Subsystems
• Experience in decomposing, deriving, allocating and tracing requirements from system to component level
• Knowledge of MIL-STD-1760, Universal Armament Interface (UAI), Common Functional Weapon (CFW), and MIL-STD-1553.
• Experience in hardware/software integration of embedded systems
• Must have Active US Government Secret Clearance (with a background investigation within the past 6 years or enrolled into Continuous Evaluation).
• Must have the ability to obtain and maintain Special Access Program (SAP) clearance, within a reasonable amount of time as determined by business needs

Preferred Qualifications:

• Demonstrated strong verbal and written communication skills and the ability to work well in a close team environment
• Demonstrated ability to assimilate new concepts quickly and independently and work in a self-directed manner
• Experience with working on a multidisciplinary team and writing technical proposals
• Experience with developing supplier documentation, performance-based specifications, and statements of work
• Demonstrated problem solving and troubleshooting skills
• 6+…