Sr. Principal Systems Engineer - LTC Design / Architecture / Integration

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

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 military / professional experience

Must have an active US Government Secret or higher clearance (with a background investigation completed within the last 6 years or currently enrolled into Continuous Evaluation).

Must have previous DOORS experience with requirements management

Must have previous experience managing Technical Baselines (Functional and Allocated Baselines)

Must have experience with integration and interfaces ICDs