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Northrop Grumman · 1 month ago

Systems Engineer Systems - Level 4

Chandler, AZ

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

$119K/yr - $178K/yr

6+ years exp

Northrop Grumman is a leader in technological advancements and is seeking a Principal Systems Engineer to support the GPI program’s Test & Evaluation Integrated Product Team. The role involves acting as the primary point of contact for the T&E IPT, compiling data products, and leading the development of various program artifacts to ensure successful test execution and data certification.

AerospaceData IntegrationManufacturingRemote SensingSecurity

Growth Opportunities

No H1B

Security Clearance Required

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Act as primary POC for T&E IPT to compile data products that support GPI’s execution of the Technology Maturation and Risk Reduction (TMRR) path to IOC. This includes assisting in major program artifacts such as the Verification Execution Plan (VEP), Test Execution Plan (TEP), Analysis Execution Plan (AEP) Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) input, and Hardware Utilization Matrix (HUM). Focus for this candidate will be the VEP and TEP

Support T&E IPT ownership of the development and maturity of the VEP, TEP, and HUM to include units under test, software configuration, special test equipment, and software for special test equipment. These customer deliverable artifacts will represent the test and evaluation landscape of the program

Lead program hardware responsible engineers to establish the qualification test strategy tracing requirements to verification events including performance model anchoring in support of integrated system performance path to IOC

Bridge the Systems Engineering Integration & Test (SEIT) Verification and Validation (V&V) “V” process through test execution. This includes working closely in support of deriving All Up Round (AUR) Environments and helping architect path to efficient Qualification / Environmental Navy Certification path to IOC

Qualification

Systems EngineeringTestEvaluationTest Requirements DevelopmentDoD Security ClearanceTechnical CommunicationSelf-starterTeam CollaborationFast-paced Environment

Required

Bachelor's degree with 8 years of professional experience – OR – Master's degree with 6 years of professional experience – OR – PhD with 4 years of professional experience

Interim Secret DoD security clearance, or higher – Most work is performed in a closed area

Working knowledge of Systems Engineering life cycle from concepts through production and sustainment

Experience in developing test requirements based on system specifications and system engineering requirement derivation

Self-starter that can work with minimal guidance with the confidence to successfully engage, direct, and educate hardware leads on how they fit into the overall master test plan. This includes engineering, design verification, risk reduction, qualification, and certification testing that is specific to their hardware and ultimately augmenting the systems test

Capability to clearly communicate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical personnel

Preferred

Active US DoD Secret security clearance, or higher

Systems Engineering background with test and evaluation experience

Willingness to work fast paced development programs

Experience with tailoring and test planning to SMC-S-016 guideline

Experience creating testing and maturation roadmaps to achieve a demonstrated TRL level

Experience in the development of test requirements and constraints to ensure test resources are necessary and sufficient to meet program testing requirements