Requisition ID: R10167831

• Category: Engineering

• Location: Linthicum, Maryland, United States of America | Annapolis Junction, Maryland, United States of America

• Clearance Type: Polygraph

• Telecommute: No- Teleworking not available for this position

• Shift: 1st Shift (United States of America)

• Travel Required: Yes, 10% of the Time

• Relocation Assistance: Relocation assistance may be available

• Positions Available: 1

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.

Today’s dynamic global security threats require solutions both big and small – solutions living within the Northrop Grumman Microelectronics Center (NGMC). Boasting state-of-the-art design and fabrication capabilities NGMC is a leader in discriminating microelectronics, support electronics, and software building these into application centric next generation processing capabilities that are geared toward the military, aerospace, and commercial markets. For more than 70 years, we have been generating complex systems that meet unique applications based on key high performing and reliable microelectronics. Our wide breadth of technologies and capabilities allows us to provide our customers with unique “More than Moore” solutions.

The Systems Engineering Integration & Test (SEIT) department is seeking a Sr. Staff Systems Engineer Architect to join our team and develop these technologies into high-performance computing systems that solve an assortment of unique mission needs. You’ll work in a fast-paced team environment alongside physicists, design engineers, and superconducting foundry engineers to make these technologies a reality.

What You'll Get To Do:

Define and maintain the visions for an end solution focused demonstration ensuring the end demonstration meets customer and product technical, schedule, and cost constraints. Take ownership of the system definition, development, and integration, and final testing by performing various systems engineering tasks such as functional analysis, detailed trade studies, requirements allocation, and interface definition studies. Interfacing with multiple disciplines, including customers, internal executive management, program management, hardware, software, system engineering, procurement, suppliers, and manufacturing ensuring demonstration success. Acting as the liaison between the technical performance team, the customer, and the program team, the applicant must be able to lead and summarize progress for all demonstrator technical performance metrics which tracking and assessing compliance to system level requirements, technical risks, key performance parameters, and lessons learned.

The successful candidate will clearly demonstrate strong leadership skills and will have an excellent track record as an effective communicator and problem solver, who is able to develop and maintain good working relationships with internal and external stakeholders. The candidate will have an ability to operate in a team environment and collaborate across the business areas as required to accomplish the team goals.

Role and Responsibilities

Support the Systems Architect with any program specific responsibilities allocated to the role to include:

• Design and development of sensor system architectures and definition of key capabilities and performance requirements

• Define the system implementation approach and operational concept of operations

• Create, evolve, and maintain the System Architecture that supports customer requirements, cost, and development schedule, including modularity, scalability, and extensibility

• Develop and define system and component interfaces

• Ensure the systematic conversion of customer or product needs into total systems solutions

• Perform functional analysis, detailed trade studies, requirements development and allocation, and interface definition studies translating customer needs into hardware and software requirements and specifications

• Lead / oversee technical work products developed by the larger engineering team, supporting design reviews and integration and test activities as needed

• Support capture activities, including RFI/RFP preparation, customer presentations and demonstrations, and competitor analysis

• Maintain knowledge of current and developing technologies and developing strategies for their insertion into both legacy and next-generation applications

• Provide presentations to customers and senior management, with tailored material based on the audience.

• Apply new technologies as well as common designs and products enabling rapid development, prototyping and affordable solutions.

This position is contingent on clearance.

This position will serve on-site in Linthicum/ Annapolis Junction, MD.

Basic Qualifications for Sr. Staff Systems Engineer :

• Bachelor's degree in a STEM discipline with 14 years of experience, a Master's degree in a STEM discipline with 12 years of experience or a PhD in a STEM discipline with 9 years of experience.

• This position requires the applicant to be a U.S. citizen with Active DoD TS/SCI with poly security per clearance business requirements.

• Demonstrated system development experience

• High proficiency in technical problem solving; to include decomposition, root cause analysis, solution development, implementation and monitoring Leadership experience with development and/or production program execution

• Multi-disciplined knowledge in areas related to engineering including systems design, hardware, software and firmware design, integration and test

Preferred Qualifications for Sr. Staff Systems Engineer :

• Experience leading technical teams

• Demonstrated Model Based Systems Engineering (SysML).

• Demonstrated Experience working with CAMEO.

• Experience developing test plans and analyzing test data

• Knowledge of Systems Engineering processing from generation of an Integrated Master Plan (IMP) to Work Product Breakdown into Integrated Master Schedules (IMS) for the development of complex systems of systems.

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Salary Range: $174,800 - $274,700

The above salary range represents a general guideline; however, Northrop Grumman considers a number of factors when determining base salary offers such as the scope and responsibilities of the position and the candidate's experience, education, skills and current market conditions.

Employees may be eligible for a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay. Annual bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions as well as allow employees to share in company results. Employees in Vice President or Director positions may be eligible for Long Term Incentives. In addition, Northrop Grumman provides a variety of benefits including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, savings plan, Company paid holidays and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business.

The application period for the job is estimated to be 20 days from the job posting date. However, this timeline may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates.

Northrop Grumman is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class. For our complete EEO/AA and Pay Transparency statement, please visit. U.S. Citizenship is required for all positions with a government clearance and certain other restricted positions.