Aeronautical Engineer- Test & Evaluation

Staff Aeronautical Engineer
- Test & Evaluation

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 an opening for a Staff Aeronautical Engineer
- Test & Evaluation to join the team of qualified individuals. Position is located in Rancho Bernardo, CA with an alternate location in Palmdale, CA.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead Test Engineer for multiple small scope efforts
• Assist with System Test Management Plan development
• In depth understanding of the Test & Evaluation lifecycle for hardware/software integration and testing, and ability to lead design efforts, design test & evaluation, and/or transition designs into production
• Collaborate and consult with a highly qualified team of engineers to develop architecture diagrams and products within a Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) environment.
• Collaborate with software and systems engineers, as well as with program and IPT leadership, to capture and communicate mission needs, assess candidate architectures, and develop architecture products.
• Collaborate with teams to allocate requirements among multiple elements of an integrated aerospace system
• The role will focus on working with design team and lab architecture team to ensure successful integration of new hardware and software in a lab test environment and be responsible for synthesizing and translating program requirements into lab specific configurations.
• The position will provide expertise to the program as it matures and progresses to later stages of testing.
• The role may include interfacing with external customer technical representatives, internal engineering associates and program management.
• This role may include collaboration with design teams for requirements flow down, management, and verification, generating complex specifications, interface control documents, and engineering reports from advanced studies, special engineering investigations, and similar activities.
• Responsible for leading the test technical responsibilities, including being test SME of effort, coordinating testing across all test areas, leading team through technical challenges, and communicating status
• The selected candidate will be required to work full-time, on-site at our facility. There is no remote / hybrid / telework available for this position. Travel up to 25% may be required.

We offer flexible work arrangements, 4/10 work schedule with every Friday off, phenomenal learning opportunities, exposure to a wide variety of projects and customers, and a very friendly team environment. We are looking for self-motivated, proactive, and goal-oriented people to help us grow our services and become even better at what we do.

Basic Qualifications:

• Must have a Bachelor of Science degree in a STEM discipline AND 12 years of related professional/military experience to include a background in systems, OR a Master's degree AND 10 years of related professional/military experience to include a background in system, OR a Ph.D. AND 8 years of related professional/military experience to include a background in systems.
• Must have an active US Secret Government 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.
• Ability to obtain and maintain subsequent SAP PARs following…