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Systems Engineer - Level 4 - Space AHT
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. This position description does not represent a current opening but may be used to identify candidates with skills and experience for positions within Northrop Grumman that frequently become available. Candidates who express an interest may be considered for future positions at Northrop Grumman. Northrop Grumman Space Systems, Multi-Domain Operations, and Missile Defense Integration Business Unit (BU) has an exciting career opportunity for a Sr. Systems Engineer – Level 4 to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals. This position will be in Huntsville, AL. What you will get to do: • Lead an Agile system engineering team. • Lead and perform model-based systems engineering (MBSE) functional, behavior analysis and develop and decompose requirements for a software and hardware integrated system. • Oversee publishing change notices to system specification and update of requirements databases, architectural models, interface definitions, and trace system and Element level requirements. • Oversee documentation and analysis results in reports and briefings for critique and review by internal and external stakeholders. • Lead development of test plans, development of verification plans and tracking status of verification. • Support integration of hardware systems in lab environments and work with lab managers for understanding and communicating system integration dependencies. The selected candidate should thrive in a fast-paced work environment with high expectations, significantly diverse assignments, and collaborative/team settings across all levels. This requisition may be filled at a higher grade based on qualifications listed below. This requisition may be filled at a Sr. Principal Systems Engineer – Level 4. Basic Qualifications for Sr. Principal Systems Engineer (Level 4) • Bachelor’s degree in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics) discipline from an accredited university and 8 years of related work experience; or a Master’s degree in STEM and 6 years of related work experience; or a PhD in STEM and 4 years of related work experience. • Strong prior experience using MSOSA (Cameo) and DOORS to develop system level behaviors and software to hardware interface definitions and interface control documents. • Experience analyzing electrical schematics, electrical interface control documents (ICDs), circuit diagrams, and FPGA logic or logic gate diagrams. • Demonstrated technical background in architecture development, functional decomposition, requirements development and allocation, and interface definition using system modeling tools. • Experience developing test plans, development of verification plans and tracking status of verification • Strong background in MBSE (Model-Based Systems Engineering) and the use of SysML to describe beha