Sentinel - Sr Nuclear Hardness Survivability 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 Defense Systems is seeking a Sr. Staff Nuclear Hardness Survivability Engineer to join the Sentinel Systems Engineering Ground Systems team located in Roy, UT. Northrop Grumman supports the Air Force’s sustainment, development, production and deployment of hardware and system modifications for Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) Ground and Airborne Launch Control Systems, Launch Facilities, and associated infrastructure.

The successful candidate will join the Nuclear Hardness & Survivability (NH&S) team in Roy, UT to Provide SME level technical oversight to the NH&S team in the area Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) effects, hardening, EMP Test, etc. This position would be the team’s primary technical lead for all EMP related activities, as well as supporting with system requirements thread work. This position will provide both technical direction and of Missile (AVE HEMP qualification) and ground system qualification (MIL-STD-188-125) and design trade studies (LS HEMP trade study)– providing technical leadership to a team of 3-5 engineers and mentorship to a team of 30 engineers.

• Defining NH&S environments and requirements
• Coordinate some of the largest scale EMP tests ever performed
• Effects of electromagnetic pulses on electronics
• NHS qualification testing and analysis of semiconductors
• NHS qualification testing and analysis of the Sentinel systems, subsystems and equipment.
• NHS qualification requirement and EMP Survivability thread support.

• Degree in Physics, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or other relevant STEM degree.
• Sr Staff Systems Engineer
  
  Experience:
  
  14+ years of related work experience with BS. 12+ years of related work experience with Master’s degree, 10 years of related work experience with a PhD.
• Must be a US Citizen with an active DoD Secret Clearance with an investigation date within the last 6 years
• Subject matter expert in MIL-STD-461, MIL-STD-464, MIL-STD-188-125, MIL-STD-2169, MIL-STD-1766C
• Experience with Electromagnetic hardening and system level testing
• Ability to meet program technical, cost, and schedule milestones
• Experience leading EMP design efforts with integrated product teams (IPTs).
• Ability to integrate, engage, and lead an EMP hardening team of 3-5 engineers.
• Ability to interface with the customer and to present EMP design recommendations to IPT leads, program boards, and customers.

• Prior experience performing EMP design work on a missile program.
• Prior experience performing EMP design work on fixed ground installations.
• Prior experience performing EMP simulations of HEMP and SREMP
• ICBM Experience
• 5+ years experience leading technical teams in support of program execution to meet cost and schedule.
• Technical areas include Space and Launch…