Principal Engineer Systems

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: Yes CLEARANCE TYPE: Secret TRAVEL: Yes, 25% 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. Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems is seeking a Sr. Principal Systems Engineer in Systems Integration supporting the Advanced Hawkeye program’s architecture. This position will be onsite in Melbourne, FL daily. The Systems Integration team is a core part of System Engineering and spans the technical baseline and program aspects in multiple Advanced Hawkeye programs. The System Integration team works with other system, software, test and quality teams to coordinate and integrate the development process and engineering efforts on new capability programs. System Engineering works as part of a team driving digital transformation to engineering practices within the enterprise. The Integration process provides a framework to systematically integrate, assemble and verify lower-level system elements into successively higher-level system elements, until the system itself is realized in its entirety. It includes planning, orderly build up tasks, and activities required to ensure that the Configuration Items comprising the system solution function as a whole. The resulting product configuration baseline supports system verification and any other required system level testing. Early interface development and management is critical to the success of the Integration process. Interface control specifications, interface control documents or interface design descriptions support Interface Management by verifying that the interfaces developed are accurate, effective and configuration controlled. The end result is a systematic buildup of the product baseline under configuration control, managed and authorized for final formal verification activities by the technical community towards completion of the assigned scope. As a Principal Systems Integration Engineer, you will: Develop an integration plan consistent with the program’s Integrated Master Schedule. Oversee integration activities in accordance with their approved integration plan. Monitor the development and delivery schedules for the components to be integrated. Peer review test procedures to ensure that the resulting procedures adequately meet the needs of the verification plan and cover the stated requirements set. Ensure test procedures are linked to the associated integration plans and the requirements they are intended to verify. Review test results to identify issues that must be addressed regarding integration verification failures. Ensure integration failures and discrepancies have been recorded and reviewed by the appropriate technical review board. Support periodic Interface Control Working Groups (ICWG). Manage and document hardware and software configurations Basic Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in a STEM field Understanding of systems engineering principles Ability to develop systems integration plans Experience with the integration of