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Staff Systems Engineer
Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation · 🇺🇸 United States-California-Woodland Hills
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About the role
RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: Yes CLEARANCE TYPE: Secret TRAVEL: Yes, 10% of the Time Description At Northrop Grumman, our employees have incredible opportunities to work on revolutionary systems that impact people's lives around the world today, and for generations to come. Our pioneering and inventive spirit has enabled us to be at the forefront of many technological advancements in our nation's history - from the first flight across the Atlantic Ocean, to stealth bombers, to landing on the moon. We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage and a pioneering spirit to join forces to invent the future, and have fun along the way. 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, they're making history. We at Northrop Grumman Missions Systems are seeking a skilled and self-initiating Systems Engineer with a strong understanding of requirements development, test case development, and verification and validation of those requirements. The ideal candidate should be proficient with requirements technical baseline management via IBM Rational DOORS, act as the technical lead and point of contact to the Chief Engineer and customer. The ideal candidate should self-initiate assignments, determine and pursue courses of action necessary to obtain desired results, develop technological ideas and guides their development to a mature solution/product, serve as the team’s or organization’s spokesperson on advanced technical solutions, and act as an advisor to management and customers. Key Responsibilities: • Work with a broad customer base to identify unique requirements, flow the requirements into design documentation, and work with a diverse team to build and test those requirements. • Work on complex technical problems and provide solutions to meet the customer’s and program’s needs. • Present to customers and program leadership on the capabilities of current products, performance analyses, design information, and requirements verification methods. • Generate, review, and manage multiple requirements sets that cover all aspects of both performance and nonperformance including mechanical interfaces, electrical interfaces, data requirements, environmental requirements, and reliability. • Awareness and responsiveness to contract milestones and deliverables. • Lead an Agile team to ensure the designs are sufficient to meet the system requirements. • Work with various Agile teams to ensure all requirements are verified through inspection, analysis, demonstration, or test often by providing test and data reduction scripts. • Provide test directions to ensure production tests and troubleshooting tests are executed correctly and resulting data conforms to requirements. Basic Qualifications Staff Systems Engineer: • Bachelors degree in STEM discipline with 12+ years of engineering experience; Master's degree in STEM discipline with 10+ years of engineering experience; PhD in STEM discipline with 8+ years of engineering experience • Demonstrated success with: • Technical baseline management • Writing and updating DOORS requirements • Decomposing and deriving requirements based on customer specifications • Experience in System Engineering activities such as: • Software requirements development • Requirements development • Test Case Development • Verification and Validation, i.e. experience running tests and documenting results • Excellent written and oral communication skills including: • Demonstrated experience presenting to internal and external stakeholders • Demonstrated experience commu