Sentinel (GBSD) Systems Engineer / Principal Systems Engineer – Air Vehicle Equipment – (323-1)

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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 systems connect and protect millions of people on earth every day, now and for the future. Explore your future and launch your career today.

Northrop Grumman Space Systems is seeking a Systems Engineer / Principal Systems Engineer. This position will be located in Roy, UT and will support the Ground Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD) program.

This role may offer a competitive relocation assistance package. This requisition may be filled at a higher grade based on qualifications listed below.

What you’ll get to do: 

The selected engineer will be responsible for multiple tasks within requirements and verification for the AVE Segment.  The engineer will be responsible for performing tasks dealing with requirement decomposition, compliance tracking, verification planning and verification execution.

This position includes:

• Requirement development, decomposition, and refinement based on knowledge of the functional architecture and performance budgets
• Ensure architecture is consistent with requirements decomposition
• Verification planning for the AVE segment requirements.  Verification planning will transition into verification execution which includes development and review of verification artifacts, requirement verification report generation, and management of the approval process
• Support to environmental requirement development and test strategy
• Support to incremental CDR execution eventually culminating in an AVE CDR (includes execution of CDR, RvC development, readiness assessment)
• Support to flight design review (FDR)
• Support element system engineers in the development of element level requirements, verification plans, and CDR/IDR execution
• Work in a collaborative environment, across all system functions.  Work with teammates across a wide variety of disciplines and get intimately familiar with all aspects of the Missile

Position Benefits:

As a full-time employee of Northrop Grumman Space 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 
• Relocation Assistance Package

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

Basic Qualifications:

This requisition may be filled at either a Systems Engineer or Principal Systems Engineer.

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a related technical discipline
• A minimum 2 years of related experience with a bachelor’s degree; 0 years with a Master’s. (Principal level requires 5 years with a bachelor’s degree; 3 years with a Master’s degree; or 0 years with a PhD)
• Experience using DOORS and MBSE (CAMEO)
• U.S. Citizenship with an Active Secret Security Clearance or higher awarded or reviewed in the last 6 years (or in continues evaluation)
• 1+ years working in requirements management tools (e.g. DOORS)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience modeling with Cameo Enterprise Architecture or MagicDraw (No Magic, Inc.) or other architecture modeling tools
• Systems engineering experience
• Experience with DoDAF and UPDM or UAF Profiles
• Experience using DOORS (IBM Rational)
• Experience with complex system development on large programs
• Experience with flight hardware
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, both verbal and written

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Salary Range: $73,400 USD - $110,000 USD

Salary Range 2: $90,400 USD - $135,600 USD

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 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/.

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