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Staff Test Engineer - 18215
Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation · 🇺🇸 United States-Alabama-Huntsville
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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. Northrop Grumman Defense Systems is seeking to hire a Staff Test Engineer . This position will be located in Huntsville, AL supporting Advanced Programs . Primary responsibilities for this position include, but are not limited to: • Prepare and manage facilities, labs, HWIL/SWIL test environments, and supporting infrastructure (planning, procurement, builds, readiness) for Phase 2 and future-phase test activities. • Translate customer contractual requirements into comprehensive, system-level test solutions that balance technical performance, schedule, and cost constraints. • Develop, lead, and execute integrated test plans, procedures, and schedules for subsystem, system-level, and environmental test events (including In-Air and Underwater Eject Tests). • Ensure test requirement completeness and traceability by contributing to and maintaining the Integrated Test Plan (ITP) and associated verification/validation artifacts. • Coordinate and integrate test activities across internal engineering teams, lab operations, range organizations, and external suppliers to achieve coherent test campaigns. • Perform technical analysis of test results and system performance, generate system-level evaluation reports, and provide data-driven recommendations to drive design improvements and risk reduction. • Review and oversee supplier test efforts, including test requirements, plans, procedures, verification and validation of delivered components, and test data review. • Design and implement proof-of-concept and risk-reduction test methods and demonstrations to identify and mitigate early program risks during Technology Maturation and Risk Reduction. • Manage test data acquisition, configuration control, analysis, metrics, and documentation using modern toolsets (e.g., DOORS, Atlassian, data analytics) to support technical reviews and decision making. • Serve as a primary technical liaison for test activities with customers, contractors, and senior stakeholders while ensuring compliance with safety, security, and export-control requirements. Basic Qualifications: • Bachelors degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) discipline from an accredited university and 12 years of relevant experience , OR a Masters degree and 10 years of relevant experience, OR a PhD and 8 years of relevant experience, OR 4 years extra in lieu of a degree. • Must be a US Citizen with an active DoD Secret Clearance , at time of application, current and within scope, with an investigation date within the last 6 years • Must have the ability to obtain and maintain Top Secret Clearance and Special Access Program (SAP) approval within a reasonable period of time, as determined by the company to meet its business needs • 8+ years of experience developing and executing integrated test plans and proced