Staff Engineer Systems - Development Lead Security Clearance

Position: Staff Engineer Systems - Development Lead with Security Clearance
RELOCATION ASSISTANCE:
Relocation assistance may be available CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START:
Yes CLEARANCE TYPE:
Interim Secret TRAVEL:
Yes, 10% of the Time Description 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 Sector is seeking a Staff Systems Engineer for the RQ-4 Global Hawk program in Rancho Bernardo, San Diego CA at the Autonomous Design Center of Excellence. The selected candidate will fill the role of Global Hawk SEI Development Lead for the Systems Engineering IPT. In this role, the selected candidate will be responsible for leading a diverse engineering design teams to provide imaginative, technical solutions to a wide range of difficult problems across the USAF customers Global Hawk portfolio.

This role includes scope across the entire spectrum of the Systems Engineering V-Model. The selected candidate will lead SE disciplines including requirements development, use case development, capability (hardware and software) development, integration planning, lab integration, test planning, formal test, and verification including but not limited to Global Hawk system refreshes and continued sustainment. The selected candidate will also be expected to lead tasking and provide direction in establishment and management of the technical baseline including Integrated Functional Capability (IFC) development and technical configuration and change management.

Essential Functions:

• Leading a multi-disciplinary team of engineers to execute to program objectives and meet technical criteria
• Work closely with customers and end users to ensure system requirements, design, risks, and limitations are understood, communicated, and accepted
• Lead and execute systems engineering functions to maintain the technical baseline, and to ensure the baseline reflects a cohesive system solution
• Support leadership to define and develop a roadmap for future technology integration
• Responsible for capturing and translating the intent of stakeholders' mission needs
• Ensures the system architecture, operations concepts, and design are affordable, effective and responsive to customer needs and objectives
• Utilizes operational experience, architecture, and system knowledge to create innovative system solutions to address stakeholder mission needs
• Support the development and validation of system level models used for concept development, design, verification, and validation
• Ability to lead team and coordinate with engineering IPTs to minimize technical risk

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor of Science degree in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Math) discipline from an accredited university with a minimum of 12 years' engineering experience; 10 years with Masters; 8 years with PhD.
• An Interim Secret Clearance for consideration and ability to obtain and maintain final DoD Secret Clearance
• Experience supporting Fielded Aircraft Systems
• Experience with UAV systems
• Experience in full lifecycle of Systems Engineering, including design reviews, requirements decomposition, test planning, and requirements verification
• Experience with ground segment architecture and design
• Experience to take concepts and decompose that into executable requirement, architecture and design parameters
• Ability to plan, execute a schedule and lead a team towards those goals
• Ability to obtain and maintain Program Access (PAR) within a reasonable…