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Sr. Principal Systems Engineer - LTC Design / Architecture / Integration
Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation · 🇺🇸 United States-California-San Diego
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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 Aeronautics Systems has an opening for a Sr. Principal Systems Engineer - LTC Design / Architecture / Integration to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals within our Systems Engineering organization. This role is located in Rancho Bernardo, CA . In this role, you will fill the role of Global Hawk SEI Long Term Comms (LTC) Design, Architecture, and Integration Systems Engineer for the Foreign Military Sales (FMS) Business Area. You will be responsible for leading a diverse engineering team to provide imaginative, technical solutions to a wide range of difficult problems across the FMS customers' Global Hawk portfolio. You'll be working across the entire spectrum of the Systems Engineering V-Model, and will support SE disciplines including requirements development, use case development, capability (hardware and software) development, integration planning, lab integration, test planning, formal test, and verification. Essential Functions: • Work closely with customers and end users to ensure system requirements, design, risks, and limitations are understood, communicated, and accepted • Execute systems engineering functions to maintain the technical baseline, and to ensure the baseline reflects a cohesive system solution • Responsible for capturing and translating the intent of stakeholders’ mission needs and objectives • Utilizes operational experience, architecture, and system knowledge to create innovative system solutions to address stakeholder mission needs • Support the development and validation of system level models used for concept development, design, verification, and validation • Leverage your experience supporting Fielded Aircraft Systems, UAV systems, and the full lifecycle of Systems Engineering, including design reviews, requirements decomposition, test planning, and requirements verification • Ability to plan, execute a schedule and lead a team towards those goals • Clearly define end user needs and desired capabilities • Define Use Cases into development lifecycle to define system requirements and architecture • Utilize operational experience, architecture, and system knowledge to define solutions for stakeholder mission needs • Support the development and validation of system level models used for concept development, design, verification, and validation • Provide support and deliverables for successful milestone reviews (e.g. SRR, SFR, PDR, CDR, FCA) • Presentation skills to effectively provide status to internal executive management and customers Basic Qualifications : • Must have a Bachelors degree in a STEM field and at least 8 years of relevant military / professional experience, OR a Master's Degree in a STEM field and at least 6 years of relevant military / professional experience, OR a PhD and at least 4 years of relevant mi