RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available
CLEARANCE TYPE: Secret
TRAVEL: Yes, 10% of the Time

DESCRIPTION

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Northrop Grumman Defense Systems is seeking a Principal Architecture Development Systems Engineer/Sr. Principal Architecture Development Systems Engineer in support of the Sentinel program. This opening is in Huntsville, AL or Roy, UT and will support the Sentinel Program. Northrop Grumman supports the Air Force’s sustainment, development, production and deployment of hardware and system modifications for Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) Ground and Airborne Launch Control Systems, Launch Facilities, and associated infrastructure.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

• Principal Systems Engineer - BS degree in STEM with 5 Years of related experience; 3 Years with Masters; 1 Year with PhD
• 2 years of experience in Aerospace, Software, Computer, and/or System Engineering.
• Must be a US Citizen with an active DoD Secret Clearance with an investigation date within the last 6 years
• Must be able to be successfully screened for Enhanced Security Clearances, within a reasonable amount of time as determined by the company to meet its business needs
• Sr. Principal Systems Engineer - BS degree in STEM with 8 Years of related experience; 6 Years with Masters; 4 Year with PhD
• 4 years of experience in Aerospace, Software, Computer, and/or System Engineering
• Must be a US Citizen with an active DoD Secret Clearance with an investigation date within the last 6 years
• Must be able to be successfully screened for Enhanced Security Clearances, within a reasonable amount of time as determined by the company to meet its business needs

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Previous Systems Engineering experience and understanding of the systems engineering V
• Experience using tools to model large systems with multiple developers.
• Experience in the military aerospace development environment is preferred.
• Experience with weapon systems
• Experience with Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE)
• Experience with Agile Development

As a full-time employee of Northrop Grumman Space Systems, you are eligible for our robust benefits package including:

• Medical, Dental & Vision coverage
• 401k
• Educational Assistance
• Life Insurance
• Employee Assistance Programs & Work/Life Solutions
• Paid Time Off
• Health & Wellness Resources
• Employee Discounts

This position’s standard work schedule is 9/80. The 9/80 schedule allows employees who work a nine-hour day Monday through Thursday to take every other Friday off.

This selected Architecture Development System Engineer will support the Command and Launch (C&L) Systems Engineering & Integration (SE&I) team who is responsible for the Command and Launch Segment architecture design.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for cross-coordination of architecture modeling and MBSE products with digital engineering design
• Ensures compatibility and cohesiveness of digital design tools (CAD, etc.) and architecture modeling. Supports integrated deliveries and coordinates across Design IPTs for com and approach.
• Support MBSE strategy and implementation over the various Architecture Models
• Coordinate with integrated product teams for establishing content within the architecture
• Define and execute model integration processes, tools, and technique, specifically utilizing CAMEO
• Develop descriptive system models to include physical/functional block diagrams at various abstraction layers to support Model-Based Engineering (MBE) and Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) efforts. SysML, UML or other descriptive constructs/tools may be used.
• Create new and adapt existing models, methods, and analysis capabilities to conduct studies to support the design, development, and assessment of advanced system design concepts and technologies.
• Ensure performance capabilities of new systems and architectures are consistent with mission requirements; develop mission relevant scenarios; assess operational effectiveness of existing and emerging systems and capabilities in representative operational environments.
• Work within multi-disciplined teams to architect, model, simulate, and analyze systems to predict/verify system performance against functional/capability requirements.
• Will be expected to derive requirements from high level requirements and to learn requirement management in DOORS