Senior Lead Space Payload Systems Engineer (Staff)

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’ll discover a culture of curiosity and collaboration that will have you Defining Possible from the day you start. Our space work connects and protects millions of people on earth every day, now and for the future. Explore your future and launch your career today.

The Payload and Ground Systems Division within Northrop Grumman Space Systems is a strategic partner specializing in delivering intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance solutions for classified and unclassified missions in space.  Headquartered in Linthicum, Maryland, PGS RSP has offices, manufacturing, and world-class assembly, integration, and test facilities.  We do it all here, on-site, from sensors to payloads to full up spacecraft, supporting Class A to Class D missions.  Our key capabilities include Active RF, Passive RF, and Electro-Optical payloads, space solar power, cross domain missions, and space resilience payloads & solutions.

This position is for a Staff Systems Engineer to join our Remote Sensing Programs Systems Engineering, Integration and Test (RSP SEIT) team.  As a member of this team, you will have the opportunity to support efforts on both concept and product development to deliver key solutions to our customers. We cover a wide variety expertise within the systems engineering domain. This includes mission engineering, requirements, architecture, modeling and simulation, integration and test, verification and validation, and many more!

The position will be responsible for supporting and leading systems engineering tasks for space subsystems, payloads and/or vehicles. These may include, but are not limited to:

• Requirements analysis, derivation, and management

• Mission Engineering, modeling, and analysis

• Architecture and CONOPs development

• Systems modeling and simulation

• Functional analysis

• Timeline analysis

• Trade studies

• Technical planning

• Cost and risk analysis

• Interface definition

• System design

• System integration and test

• Verification and Validation planning and execution

• Supportability and effectiveness analyses for total systems.

• Some tools you could expect to use are: DOORS, STK, Cameo, Rhapsody, MATLAB, python

Basic Qualifications:

• BS Degree in STEM with 14 years relevant experience; 12 years with MS Degree; or PhD Degree with 9 years of experience.

• Active TS clearance is required to start

• Systems engineering experience (i.e. requirements, mission engineering, architecture, modeling and simulation, integration and test, verification and validation)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Active TS/SCI clearance

• Space experience

• Sensor/payload experience:

• Antennas

• Radar

• EO/IR

• Communications

• Processing, specifically On-Board Processing

• Space vehicle experience

• Space ground systems architecture and design experience

• Mission engineering, modeling and simulation

• Space Mission CONOPS

• Assembly, Integration and Test (AI&T)

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