Northrop Grumman

GBSD Command and Launch Principal Test Engineer

Posted on: 19 Mar 2021

Roy, UT

Job Description

Description

Start your future with a new mission: Northrop Grumman Space Systems (NGSP). As a part of the NGSP Team, you will work with experts that develop systems and solutions to keep our world safe. Together we protect our troops, public safety, information, and our planet. Its unique work. Its challenging and rewarding. But most of all, it is work that makes a difference. 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, theyre making history. Join us and launch your career. Northrop Grumman Space Systems is seeking a Principal Systems Engineer for the C amp;L Integration Assembly Test amp; Checkout (IATC) team. This position will be located in Roy, UT and will support the Ground Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD) program. Learn more about the GBSD program here.

The successful candidate should have the ability to:
- Design, develop, and implement testing methods and equipment.
- Plan and arrange labor, schedules, and equipment required for testing and evaluating standard and special devices.
- Ability to navigate requirements in DOORS
- Compile data and define changes required in test equipment, test procedures, or new test requirements.
- Test planning, execution, reporting, and integration support
- Technical experience in network, computer hardware and software, interconnection and interfacing technologies
- Collaborate with systems engineers, software engineers and lab users to ensure the lab meets test requirements
- Develop and release engineering documentation including:
- Perform data analysis against requirements and interfaces for each software build or hardware component
- Interface with software developers and systems engineers in support of verification
- Prepare detailed test reports and support formal verification of the system
- Product integration, regression, and verification testing including checkout in system test labs.
- Short and long term integration planning and execution of multiple concurrent baselines. This include integrating subsystem functionality into system capabilities per design with an emphasis on system stability and performance
- Participating in technical exchange meetings, interfacing with customers (internal/external) and contributing to a broad range of program deliverables.
- The selected candidate should thrive in a fast-paced work environment with high expectations, significantly diverse assignments, collaborative/team settings across all levels. Additionally, possess excellent communication, interpersonal skills, and the ability to interface with all levels of employees and management.

As a full-time employee of Northrop Grumman Space Systems, you are eligible for our robust benefits package including:
Medical, Dental amp; Vision coverage
401k
Educational Assistance
Life Insurance
Employee Assistance Programs amp; Work/Life Solutions
Paid Time Off
Health amp; Wellness Resources
Employee Discounts

This positions standard work schedule is a 9/80. The 9/80 schedule allows employees who work a nine-hour day Monday through Thursday to take every other Friday off.
Qualification

Basic Qualifications:
- 5 years of experience with a Bachelors in a STEM related field; 3 Years with Masters; 0 Years with PhD
- Prior experience in systems or test engineering
- Active DoD Secret clearance with completed investigation within the last 6 years
- Works well in a team environment
- Proficiency in MS Office

Preferred Qualifications:
- A current DoD Top Secret/SCI level security clearance, to include a Single Scope Background Investigation, a periodic reinvestigation, or an original adjudication date completed within the last 6 years
- Security+ Certification
- Software and/or Hardware testing experience
- Experience with Client/Server architecture
- Automated Test experience (development and execution)
- Agile experience
- Knowledge of Model Based System Engineering with an understanding of DODAF and SysML
- Proficiency in DOORS and Cameo

Travel expected up to 10% of the time

Northrop Grumman

Falls Church, VA

Northrop Grumman Corporation, a security company, provides products in the areas of autonomous systems, cyber, space, strikes, and logistics and modernizations in the United States, the Asia Pacific, and internationally. The company operates through four segments: Aerospace Systems, Innovation Systems, Mission Systems, and Technology Services. The Aerospace Systems segment designs, develops, integrates, and produces manned aircrafts, autonomous systems, spacecraft systems, high-energy laser systems, microelectronics, and other systems and sub-systems for use in the areas of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, strike operations, communications, earth observations, and space science.

The Innovation Systems segment designs, develops, integrates, and produces flights, armaments, and space systems. It offers launch vehicles and related propulsion systems; missile products and defense electronics; precision weapons, armament systems, and ammunitions; satellites and associated space components and services; and advanced aerospace structures. The Mission Systems segment offers products and services that include C4ISR systems; radar, electro-optical/infrared (EO/IR), and acoustic sensors; electronic warfare systems; cyber solutions; space systems; intelligence processing systems; air and missile defense integration systems; navigation systems; and shipboard missiles and encapsulated payload launch systems.

The Technology Services segment provides logistic solutions that supports the full life cycle of platforms and systems. Its products and services include software and system sustainment; modernization of platform and associated subsystems; advanced training solutions; and integrated logistics support. Northrop Grumman Corporation was founded in 1939 and is based in Falls Church, Virginia.

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