Staff Aeronautical Engineer

Found in: Appcast Linkedin GBL C2 - 1 week ago

Redondo Beach, United States Northrop Grumman Full time

This position is currently contingent on program award and associated program award funding. Start dates are determined after funding confirmation.


Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems has an opening for a Staff Aeronautical Engineer – Vehicle Management Systems (VMS) to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals within our South Bay Vehicle Engineering organization. This position is located in Redondo Beach, CA.


Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Lead a team of VMS engineers and provide guidance to technical team and program leadership
  • Define key subsystem capabilities, performance requirements, and design constraints in accordance with customer specifications
  • Define, develop, and manage system components, interface definitions, and implementation approaches
  • Interface with flight-critical and safety-critical systems for control of an aircraft, in particular functionality for control and status reporting.
  • Example systems may include the following subsystems:
  • Flight Control Actuation
  • Brake Control
  • Nose Wheel Steering
  • Electrical Power
  • Environmental Control
  • Ground Support Interfaces
  • Landing Gears & Doors
  • Fuel Systems
  • Air Data Systems
  • Perform technical planning, analysis, and hardware trade studies to meet requirements
  • Perform component hardware and software integration, and derive software requirements for control of flight-critical and safety-critical systems
  • Develop and execute component, subsystem, and system level test procedures to verify functionality of the VMS hardware and software
  • Coordinate with software engineers, subsystems/ design engineers, hardware engineers, test and integration, suppliers, systems engineering.
  • Investigate and resolve system anomalies across multiple engineering disciplines


The selected candidate should thrive in a fast-paced work environment with high expectations and collaborative/team settings across all levels.


Basic Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s Degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) field from an accredited university with 14 years of related engineering experience; OR a Master’s Degree in STEM with 12 years of related engineering experience; OR a PhD in STEM with 9 years of related engineering experience.
  • Experience leading an engineering team; preferably a VMS team.
  • Experience with coordinating with program leadership, budgeting, and work scope planning.
  • An active DoD Secret or higher security clearance is required
  • Must have the ability to obtain and maintain Special Access Program (SAP) clearance


Preferred Qualifications:

  • Master’s Degree or PhD in Mechanical, Aerospace, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering discipline from an accredited university
  • Experience with design, development, and/or integration of the Air Vehicle systems and subsystems listed above
  • 5+ years leading VMS teams
  • 5+ years coordinating with program leadership, budgeting, work scope planning.
  • Experience with digital bus and analog interfaces
  • Experience with power electronics
  • Experience with hardware/software integration, verification & validation
  • Experience with engineering modeling and simulation
  • Excellent oral, written, and interpersonal communication skills
  • Ability to work as part of a team, organize work, manage time, plan, and prioritize
  • Current or previous Special Program Access (PAR/SPA).

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