Sentinel Sr. Principal Systems Engineer Thread Support – Tsspse
| Company | Northrop Grumman |
|---|---|
| Location | Hill AFB, UT, USA |
| Salary | $118600 – $178000 |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | Bachelor’s, Master’s, PhD |
| Experience Level | Senior |
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) from an accredited university with 8 years of relevant experience, or 6 years of relevant experience with a Master’s degree or 4 years with a PhD.
- 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
- 2+ years’ experience in ICBM (MMIII or Sentinel) OR complex aerospace/defense systems
- 2+ years’ experience in team environments with leadership responsibilities
- 1+ year experience creating, updating, and maintaining system performance documentation
Responsibilities
- Become a subject matter expert (SME) and technical leader with end-to-end / top-to-bottom understanding for the successful implementation of their assigned thread(s) for the Sentinel Program.
- Partner with the program’s SEIT leadership and Office of Chief Engineering (OCE) to ensure their assigned threads technical baseline is developed with high quality.
- Brief program leadership, customers, and stakeholders on their assigned threads at both program and technical reviews.
- Establish an effective system of working group / coordination sessions with stakeholders across the development community to ensure effective horizontal and vertical thread integration.
- Develop and maintain strong relationships across program, customers, and stakeholder communities.
- Engage in formal and informal mentoring to support knowledge transfer and talent development.
- Execute special projects as needed for their assigned threads.
- Provide oversight of all systems engineering products related to their assigned threads. These include: Requirements definition and allocation, with cognizance down to the lowest level. Architecture and interface definitions. Functional flows and CONOPS/Operations Scenarios. Performance / allocation budgets, analysis, and margin management. Trade studies. Verification planning, including coordination of required and expected verification products down to the lowest applicable level. Verification and validation execution, including authorship of requirement verification reports and customer coordination. Solution definition / design artifacts produce a compliant realization of the thread capability. Integration and test planning and procedure development. Risk and opportunity identification and associated execution planning. Technical Performance Measure (TPM) reporting and management.
Preferred Qualifications
- Large scale / complex system development experience across multiple phases of a development program: preliminary design, detailed design, integration and test, verification and sell off, transition to production.
- Experience with implementing and using model-based systems engineering (MBSE) tools, practices, and methods.
- Strong understanding and broad application of complex engineering systems (engineering standards, configuration management, material review board, process control, tooling, facilities, software, etc.) for the development of complex systems of systems.
- Strong oral and written communication skills, including demonstrated experience with high value customer presentations, with ability to focus on multiple projects with competing priorities.