Sr Staff Engineer Systems - Global Hawk Resiliency Thread Lead

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE:
Relocation assistance may be available
CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START:
Yes
CLEARANCE TYPE:
Secret
TRAVEL:
Yes, 10% of the Time

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Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems is seeking a Sr Staff Systems Engineer – Global Hawk Resiliency Thread Lead to serve as the technical lead for end‑to‑end mission resiliency upgrades for the RQ-4 Enterprise. Initially, you’ll be focused on the development of Anti-Jam capabilities in support of the USAF Development business area, with a roadmap to scale solutions across multiple business areas.
In this role, you will be the single technical owner for resiliency mission threads, driving coherent requirements, architectures, and design patterns to ensure mission effectiveness in GPS‑denied, spoofed, and contested environments. You will collaborate across platforms, sensors, software, networks, and CONOPS to close resiliency gaps, reduce escapes, and establish reusable resiliency patterns and test approaches that can be adopted enterprise‑wide.

• Serve as the technical owner for end‑to‑end mission resiliency threads in a priority USAF business area, with a roadmap to extend across up to five business areas.
• Define and maintain coherent resiliency requirements, architectures, and design patterns, replacing fragmented, program‑by‑program approaches with integrated enterprise solutions.
• Lead integrated trade studies across platforms, sensors, software, networks, and CONOPS to maintain mission effectiveness under GPS denial, spoofing, jamming, and other contested‑environment threats.
• Identify and close resiliency gaps across the full mission thread, from sensor input through mission execution, reducing escapes to test and field.
• Develop and enforce verification and validation strategies for resiliency requirements, including end‑to‑end test approaches (lab, HWIL, flight/operational as applicable).
• Establish reusable resiliency patterns, analysis methods, and test standards that can be adopted by other programs and business areas to lower NRE and accelerate future upgrades.
• Collaborate closely with program chief engineers, systems architects, software/hardware leads, mission engineering, and operations to ensure resiliency considerations are integrated throughout the lifecycle.
• Provide technical leadership into captures, proposals, and CRADs where assured navigation, mission continuity, and contested‑environment resiliency are key discriminators.
• Act as a trusted technical advisor to internal leadership and customer technical counterparts, representing Aeronautics Systems in technical interchange meetings, design reviews, and requirements working groups.
• Mentor and coach systems and mission engineers in resiliency best practices, model‑based engineering approaches, and enterprise reuse of patterns and standards.

• Bachelor’s Degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) related discipline and 14 years of…