Job Description

Description

Embark on a career putting innovative, reliable, and agile products and ideas into orbit and beyond. Northrop Grumman has opportunities waiting for you that play a vital role in human space exploration, national defense, and scientific discovery, supporting multiple programs across the universe. With us, you 39;ll discover a culture of curiosity and collaboration that will have you Defining Possible from the day you start. Our space systems connect and protect millions of people on Earth every day, now and for the future. Explore your future and launch your career today.

This Systems Engineering position is for an engineering support role on a Civil and Commercial Satellites (CCS) program within at Northrop Grumman located in Dulles, VA. The job responsibilities will be as an individual-contributor and deliverable/product lead within a multi-disciplinary engineering team. Successful candidate will perform traditional Systems Engineering functions, including requirements synthesis and flow-down, verification/validation planning, system trades study support, systems analysis, coordination of design efforts, and management of technical budgets amp; interface definitions. Responsibilities will also include interaction with program, functional and customer leadership.

In this role, the Systems Engineer will perform duties contributing to general mission or space vehicle systems engineering activities, which may include requirements flow down, tracking, verification, and the writing of complex specifications, interface control documents, and engineering reports from advanced studies, special engineering investigations, and similar activities. Tasks may also include harness interface design, mechanical systems support, Command amp; Telemetry database development, and space vehicle configuration modeling. The candidate must be knowledgeable in aerospace systems, spacecraft subsystems design, or mission operations. Advanced modeling amp; analyses relating to mission and technical problems may be required in support of development or mission operations teams. Position will also include responsibilities relating to integration, testing, and operational readiness of spacecraft and payloads. Candidate may be called on to assist in new business activities, such as conceptual design and analysis for proposals and funded studies, and may include authoring sections for both.

In this role, the Systems Engineer will perform analysis, design, or test of one or more moderately complex (or portions of complex) mechanical/structural components, subsystems, and/or functional systems. The candidate will analyze requirements for mechanical/structural component, subsystem, and/or functional systems. The candidate should be able to select applicable analytical data from previous systems, determine the technical principles involved, mathematically define the problem and compute the engineering characteristics consistent with the specifications, design needs and requirements of other portions of the system, and follow up by releasing the results as design data (once reviewed by a higher graded engineer). The engineer will develop original ideas, elaborate on preliminary design concepts, evaluate completed designs with their program/functional supervisors and other technical groups, and make the necessary design modifications to achieve the best design within the program constraints. The candidate may also develop and coordinate the conduct of test programs required to evaluate design work.

Duties/Responsibilities:

bull; Provide support to selected elements of the program Systems Engineering Team
bull; Support and deliver SE Products and other deliverables, with a focus on mission success
bull; Troubleshoot and develop solutions to challenging Engineering problems
bull; Contribute to the technical management of program elements
bull; Provide systems engineering support for technical reviews
bull; Write status and technical performance reviews, analyses and report

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Qualification

Basic Qualifications:

Bachelors degree in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineer, Math or related area) and 9+ years of experience, Masters Degree and 7+ years, PhD and 4 years of experience
Thorough understanding of the Systems Engineering process
Strong oral and written communication skills
Aptitude for understanding system and subsystem interactions
Experience defining requirements and interfaces

Preferred Qualifications:

Major contributor to the GEO Business Development team
Interface with internal and external customers
Support Bid amp; Proposal processes and lead the effort to establish winning technical proposals
Support development and advancement of the product line, as a Systems Engineering
Understanding of spacecraft integration amp; test, launch, and mission operations
Experience with human spaceflight vehicle development including integration amp; test
Experience developing verification documentation
Experience with architecture development
Masters degree in a technical discipline (with five years of professional experience)