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Principal / Senior Principal Reliability 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: No 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. Northrop Grumman Mission Systems is a trusted provider of mission-enabling solutions for global security. Our Engineering and Sciences (E&S) organization pushes the boundaries of innovation, redefines engineering capabilities, and drives advances in various sciences. Our team is chartered with providing the skills, innovative technologies to develop, design, produce and sustain optimized product lines across the sector while providing a decisive advantage to the warfighter. Come be a part of our mission! Northrop Grumman is seeking a Principal or Senior Principal Reliability Engineer with the ability to obtain a security clearance to work with our Specialty Engineering Team out of Woodland Hills, CA. Our success is grounded in our ability to embrace change, move quickly and continuously drive innovation. The successful candidate will be collaborative, open, transparent, and team-oriented with a focus on team empowerment & shared responsibility, flexibility, continuous learning, and a culture of automation. This is an exciting, challenging and specialized role for a talented, energized and innovative individual who wants to pursue growth in Reliability, Maintainability, and Testability Engineering. This is fully onsite position located in Woodland Hills, CA working a 9/80 schedule. What You’ll Get to Do: • Perform Reliability and Maintainability allocations and predictions for avionics and navigation systems. • Conduct Failure Modes Effects Analyses (FMEA), Failure Modes Effects Criticality Analyses (FMECA), and Testability analyses. • Support Failure Reporting Analysis and Corrective Action System (FRACAS) as needed. • Support Built-In Test BIT Design Verification Testing (BIT Demos). • Utilize knowledge of documents such as MIL-HDBK-338, MIL-HDBK-2165 and MIL-HDBK-217 F(N2) to perform engineering analysis and make recommendations to design teams. • Collaborate with Integrated Product Teams (IPT), program management, customers, and suppliers for the Reliability, Maintainability and Testability (RMT) aspects of assigned systems. • Support identifying, planning and quoting the RMT tasks for proposals. This position may be filled as Principal Reliability Engineer or Senior Principal Reliability Engineer . Basic Qualifications Principal Reliability Engineer • Bachelor’s in Electrical Engineering (or related STEM Discipline) with a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience; Master’s with 3 years of relevant experience; PhD with 1 year relevant experience. • Demonstrated experience in Reliability, Maintainability, and Testability disciplines. • Ability to read electronic circuit schematics and understand component failure modes/mechanisms. • Experience developing a Piece-Part FMEA/FMECA. • Clear and effective verbal and written communication skills to be able to interact with team