Systems Engineer/Senior Systems Engineer *

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: Yes CLEARANCE TYPE: SCI 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. Northrop Grumman’s Space Sector is seeking a Systems Engineer Senior Systems Engineer – Level 2 or Level 3 to join our team in Chantilly, VA. This position is 100% onsite and cannot accommodate telecommute work.   The SV Onboarding Engineer will perform mission onboarding activities for a ground-based, service-oriented architecture intended to service next generation space capability. The team focuses on the space vehicle to ground segment integration to enable operations. This includes the integration of multiple heterogenous space vehicles into a common ground system. The Onboarding engineer will develop critical mission operations products in support of orbital analysis to include identification and integration of signature limitations and constraints.   This position will work a 9/80 schedule, with every other Friday off.   Your mission, should you choose to accept: • Equal parts technical competency, forward thinking ideas, and execution focus. • Functional understanding of ground system networking, private cloud deployments, data and messaging buses, software deployment, and hardware deployment. • Interact in an organized and solutions-oriented manner, with external entities who are contributing elements of the integrated ground segment. • Functional understanding of spacecraft design and operations. • Managing work in Jira to work closely with the ground software development team. • The work is managed between the low and high side and occurs on both. It will require organization skills to keep it all on track.   If this job description reads like it was written specifically for you, consider joining our team!   This position is contingent upon the candidate obtaining final clearances and program access(es) within a reasonable period of time as determined by the company.   This position can be filled at either a Level 2 or Level 3.   Basic Qualifications for Level 2: • Bachelor’s degree with 2 years of professional experience or Master’s degree with 0 years of professional experience.    • Requires an active Top-Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) clearance at time of application • Experience in Space to Ground and Mission Architecture and Space Vehicle Systems Engineering • Experience with Satellite Ground Systems in the US National Security arena • CONOPS development for Space Based programs. • Understanding of space vehicle design concepts   Basic Qualifications for Level 3: • Bachelor’s degree with 5 years of professional experience or Master’s degree with 3 years of professional experience or PhD with 1 year of professional experience.    • Requires an active Top-Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) clearance at time of application • Experience in Space to Ground and Mission Architecture and Space Vehicle Systems Engineering • Experience wit