Manager Systems Engineering 1

Join Northrop Grumman on our continued mission to push the boundaries of possible across land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace. Enjoy a culture where your voice is valued and start contributing to our team of passionate professionals providing real-life solutions to our world’s biggest challenges. We take pride in creating purposeful work and allowing our employees to grow and achieve their goals every day by Defining Possible. With our competitive pay and comprehensive benefits, we have the right opportunities to fit your life and launch your career today.

The successful candidate will join our SEIT management team in developing multifunction sensors for some of the most advanced systems in the U.S. and our allies’ arsenal. The selected candidate will clearly demonstrate strong management skills and will have a track record as a motivated leader, an effective communicator, and problem solver who is able to develop and maintain good working relationships with internal and external stakeholders. The candidate will demonstrate a commitment to ethics and integrity, and the capability to innovate while challenging traditional ways of doing business. The selected candidate will demonstrate abilities to build diverse and inclusive teams with high levels of engagement, including mentoring and coaching. They will have an ability to operate in a team environment and collaborate across the sector business areas as required to accomplish team and department goals.

This is a dual-role manager position, involving balancing both the overall Functional oversight and management of a SEIT group of 5-10 engineers and/or interns as well as performing direct work on a program(s)/proposal(s). The candidate will spend ~10% of their time on support of the organization and ~90% of their time on technical direct work. The time split may fluctuate throughout the year, especially during surge recruiting and rotation months.  The management indirect responsibilities involve organizational administrative activities and helping their employees’ performance and career development through guidance and training.

 Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree with 5 years of experience, A Master’s degree with 3 years of experience or a PhD with 0 years of experience in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Applied Physics, Applied Mathematics, or related technical fields.
• Active DoD Secret Clearance and SAP upon starting
• Candidate must be a U.S Citizen
• 5 years of progressive Systems and/or Software Engineering / Development experience
• Demonstrated ability to lead and motivate diverse and inclusive teams in a leadership role
• Strong verbal and written communication and interpersonal skills
• Solid understanding of the Systems Engineering and Integration and Test processes
• Experience with good Agile (Scrum) team execution and principles
• Ability to obtain higher levels of clearance to include SAP

Preferred Qualifications:

• Working understanding of real-time operating systems such as Linux or VxWorks
• Management of budget for technical activities
• Experience developing, delivering, and supporting a secure embedded product
• Software Development and/or Software Engineering background with an Agile/DevSecOps mindset and experience with real-time embedded systems
• Strong C/C++ background, Python background, and some knowledge in JAVA, JVM & RMI
• Tools: Git, Atlassian (BitBucket, Confluence, Jira), Jenkins, static & dynamic code analysis (i.e., SonarQube)
• Experience developing boot software (First stage bootloader, U-boot, UEFI, etc.) for custom boards.
• Applied cryptography and middleware experience (e.g., OpenSSL, TLS)
• Experience developing register-level models of hardware IP in Systems/TLM2
• Experience developing Device Tree files for custom hardware.
• Device Driver development
• Size and speed optimizing software for embedded platforms.
• Modifying and integrating open-source software
• DevOps practices and tools.

As a full-time employee of Northrop Grumman Mission Systems, you are eligible for our robust benefits package including: 

• Medical, Dental & Vision coverage
• 401k
• Educational Assistance
• Life Insurance
• Employee Assistance Programs & Work/Life Solutions
• Paid Time Off
• Health & Wellness Resources
• Employee Discounts 

Link to Benefits: https://totalrewards.northropgrumman.com/  

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. 

This position is contingent upon transfer of DoD Secret Clearance.

The health and safety of our employees and their families is a top priority. The company encourages employees to remain up-to-date on their COVID-19 vaccinations. U.S. Northrop Grumman employees may be required, in the future, to be vaccinated or have an approved disability/medical or religious accommodation, pursuant to future court decisions and/or government action on the currently stayed federal contractor vaccine mandate under Executive Order 14042 https://www.saferfederalworkforce.gov/contractors/.

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 http://www.northropgrumman.com/EEO. U.S. Citizenship is required for most positions.