Space Payload Systems Engineer / Principal Space Payload Systems Engineer
| Company | Northrop Grumman |
|---|---|
| Location | Halethorpe, MD, USA |
| Salary | $85400 – $158000 |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | Bachelor’s, Master’s, PhD |
| Experience Level | Mid Level, Senior |
Requirements
- Bachelor Degree in STEM curriculum with 2 years relevant experience; 0 years with MS Degree; or PhD with 0 years of experience (for Level 2)
- Bachelor Degree in STEM curriculum with 5 years relevant experience; 3 years with MS Degree; or PhD with 0 years of experience (for Level 3)
- Must have an active U.S. Government DoD Secret security clearance at time of application, current and within scope, with the ability to obtain and maintain a Top-Secret clearance and SCI approval/access
- The ability to obtain and maintain a Polygraph is required
- Systems engineering experience (i.e. requirements, mission engineering, architecture, modeling and simulation, integration and test, verification and validation)
- Digital Signal Processing experience
- GNURadio experience
- Proficient in MATLAB
- Experience with VHDL
- Experience with Verilog
Responsibilities
- Requirements analysis, derivation, and management
- Mission Engineering, modeling, and analysis
- Architecture and CONOPs development
- Systems modeling and simulation
- Functional analysis
- Timeline analysis
- Trade studies
- Technical planning
- Cost and risk analysis
- Interface definition
- System design
- System integration and test
- Verification and Validation planning and execution
- Supportability and effectiveness analysis for total systems
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with Machine Learning (embedded AI specifically)
- Space experience
- Sensor/payload experience: Antennas, Radar, EO/IR, Communications, Processing, specifically On-Board Processing
- Space vehicle experience
- Space ground systems architecture and design experience
- Mission engineering, modeling and simulation
- Space Mission CONOPS
- Assembly, Integration and Test (AI&T)