Chief Engineer

Join the Tactical Space Systems Division Mission Systems Engineering organization in a strategic role within the Civil Space Systems (CSS) business area as a Chief Engineer/Lead Systems Engineer to support an exciting NASA space flight program at our Dulles, VA campus or our Gilbert, AZ campus.The Senior Staff Engineer provides technical solutions to a wide range of complex and difficult problems and contributes to the completion of mission objectives and requirements.Lead and manage technical solution to achieve spacecraft requirements and enable mission success.Full space mission life cycle experience (concept development, preliminary design phase, critical design phase, integration and test, launch and early orbit checkout, flight ops)Full understanding of robotic (unmanned) spacecraft subsystems and avionics (Attitude Control, Electric Power, Command & Data Handling, Structures and Mechanisms, Communications, Propulsion, Flight Software, and Thermal subsystems)Knowledge in any of the following areas: Launch Vehicles, System Safety, System Reliability, Contamination Control, EMI, Space Environments (Radiation, Surface Charging, etc.)Northrop Grumman leads the industry team for NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, the largest, most complex and powerful space telescope ever built.Launched in December 2021, the telescope incorporates innovative design, advanced technology, and groundbreaking engineering, and will fundamentally alter our understanding of the universe.