Staff Systems Engineer

1 month ago

Roy, United States Northrop Grumman Full time

Embark on a career putting innovative, reliable, and agile products and ideas into orbit, and beyond. Northrop Grumman has opportunities waiting for you that play a vital role in human space exploration, national defense, and scientific discovery, supporting multiple programs across the universe. With us, you’ll discover a culture of curiosity and collaboration that will have you Defining Possible from the day you start. Our space systems connect and protect millions of people on earth every day, now and for the future. Explore your future and launch your career today.


Northrop Grumman Space Systems is seeking a Staff Systems Engineer to be the Sentinel Countermeasures Technical Lead. This position is located in Roy, UT and supports the Sentinel program.


This role may offer a competitive relocation assistance package.


What You’ll Get To Do

The successful candidate will:

  • Work directly with the Countermeasure Chief Engineer
  • Interface with the government customer and provide subject matter expertise for ICBM payload development
  • Coordinate customer Mission Modeling Framework working groups
  • Interface with government labs and support advanced research and development
  • Interface with intelligence agencies
  • Participate in technical planning, system integration, verification and validation, cost and risk, and supportability and effectiveness analyses for missile system payloads
  • Lead technology roadmap creation, cross-campus/sector involvement, and NCTA project leadership
  • Provide Technical roadmaps to support a balanced, realistic, schedule to meet contractual requirements
  • Develop new payload capabilities
  • Review and provide feedback on models meant to simulate and evaluate hardware performance
  • Review test plans to ensure methodology will correctly acquire data on attributes being tested
  • Provide oversight of payload testing
  • Perform model validation of various Payloads through test and analysis
  • Verify Payload specifications and designs through modeling and simulation, test data processing, and performance analysis
  • Create technical reports and present analysis results
  • Develop Basis of Estimates (BOEs) and support Advanced Program Capture efforts
  • Interface with the Advanced Programs Division as Countermeasures subject matter expert


Basic Qualifications:

  • Bachelor of Science degree in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Math) discipline from an accredited university and 14 years of relevant experience with a Bachelor's degree, 12 years with Masters, or 9 years with a PhD
  • Must be a U.S. Citizen with an Active DoD Top Secret clearance with SCI, with an in-scope investigation date within the last 6 years
  • 3 years technical experience in three or more of:
  • Missile defense discrimination algorithms
  • Missile defense radar/signature analysis
  • Electro-optical and infrared signature analysis
  • Kill vehicle seeker design and analysis
  • Countermeasure/Penetration Aids design and analysis
  • Experience with National Laboratories and/or Intelligence Agencies


These Qualifications Would be Nice to Have

  • 2 Years experience with Sentinel Countermeasure development
  • Experience with Missile Defense Agency Countermeasure development
  • Experience developing Red Engineering models
  • Experience with analytic models such as OSC, XPATCH, and Method of Moments codes


Position Benefits


As a full-time employee of Northrop Grumman Space Systems, you are eligible for our robust benefits package including:

  • Medical, Dental & Vision coverage
  • 401k
  • Educational Assistance
  • Life Insurance
  • Employee Assistance Programs & Work/Life Solutions
  • Paid Time Off
  • Health & Wellness Resources
  • Employee Discounts



This position’s standard work schedule is a 9/80. The 9/80 schedule allows employees who work a nine-hour day Monday through Thursday to take every other Friday off.


This role may offer a competitive relocation assistance package.


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