Principal / Sr Principal Engineer - Operations Research (AHT)
3 weeks ago
- Category: Engineering
- Location: Northridge, California, United States of America
- Clearance Type: Secret
- Telecommute: No- Teleworking not available for this position
- Shift: Days (United States of America)
- Travel Required: Yes, 10% of the Time
- Relocation Assistance: Relocation assistance may be available
- Positions Available: 1
Northrop Grumman Weapons Business Unit is currently seeking a Principal / Sr Principal Engineer - Operations Research for our Advanced Programs Software, Modeling, and Simulation team in Northridge, CA.
Our work influences the investment decisions of our senior leadership and customer program offices. The Operations Research discipline is a blend of many other fields (e.g. Systems Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Software Engineering, etc.) and frequently collaborates across functional disciplines. The Operations Research team is responsible for evaluating the merit of new technologies and military operations in future conflicts. In this role, you will be a member of a team that performs the following tasks: simulation tool and infrastructure development, model development, scenario creation, designing focused vignette threads, and performing analysis. The analysis includes a wide variety of system types and spans multiple domains (friendly and adversary; ground, maritime, air and space). You will work with technical teams and leadership to develop standalone and/or distributed simulation tools/infrastructure and to perform analysis at the engagement, mission, and/or campaign levels. The selected candidate will be responsible for developing models, performing data analysis, communicating findings to internal and external stakeholders, and training and mentoring junior analysts in the same skill sets.
Duties and Responsibilities may include:
- Develop and apply advanced software and systems methods that support the investigation, analysis and solution of complex and advanced technical problems.
- Develop and use tools that support the visualization of the battlespace at a mission or engagement level
- Use, develop, and modifying tools to support data analysis of simulation or flight test results
- Model operational environments, performs trade studies via computer simulation, and recommends alternative architectures
- Develop software to model behavior of systems in real-time and constructive simulations
- Develop, integrate, and use advanced graphical user interfaces and visualization tools
- Perform mission simulation using government or industry standard tools to determine mission effectiveness
- Perform engagement simulation using standard tools, MATLAB, Simulink and others.
- Perform modeling and simulation studies that optimize mission performance for weapon systems across the air, land, sea, space and cyber domains
- Perform modeling, simulation, and analysis tasks assessing system survivability, system effectiveness, and overall system performance in engagement / mission-level scenarios.
- Develop performance models and algorithms, threat models and command and control models for new and/or existing system simulation frameworks.
- Solicit input from various stakeholders, synthesize data, and communicate results to various levels of leadership within the organization
- Participate in Agile engineering project frameworks
This is a100% on-site position.
Basic Qualifications for a Principal Engineer - Operations Research (T03) are:
- High school diploma/GED and a minimum of 9+ years of experience in modeling, simulation, and analysis of Aerospace Systems, Systems Analysis, and Design.
- BS in Computer Science, Engineering, Math, or Physics AND 5+ years modeling, simulation, and analysis of Aerospace Systems, Systems Analysis, and Design, OR
- MS in Computer Science, Engineering, Math, or Physics AND 3+ years modeling, simulation, and analysis of Aerospace Systems, Systems Analysis, and Design
- Current/active U.S Government issued DoD Secret Clearance; clearance must have been issued/adjudicated in the past five (5) years
- Experience as an AFSIM developer/analyst, including making and validating movers, creating observers and post-processors, and performing large Design of Experiments (DoE) studies
- Experience creating compelling OV-1s, data visualization, and other briefing materials to explain simulation techniques, assumptions, and insights to a variety of audiences
- Experience executing technology development and EMD contracts with DoD customers
- Experience leading Operations Research studies, including identifying Technical Performance Metrics (TPMs) and developing study plans from Statements of Work (SOWs) and Statements of Objectives (SOOs)
- High school diploma/GED and a minimum of 13+ years of experience in modeling, simulation, and analysis of Aerospace Systems, Systems Analysis, and Design, OR
- BS in Computer Science, Engineering, Math, or Physics AND 9+ years modeling, simulation, and analysis of Aerospace Systems, Systems Analysis, and Design, OR
- MS in Computer Science, Engineering, Math, or Physics AND 7+ years modeling, simulation, and analysis of Aerospace Systems, Systems Analysis, and Design, OR
- PhD. Computer Science, Engineering, Math, or Physics AND 4+ years modeling, simulation, and analysis of Aerospace Systems, Systems Analysis, and Design
- Current/active U.S Government issued DoD Secret Clearance; clearance must have been issued/adjudicated in the past five (5) years
- Experience as an AFSIM developer/analyst, including making and validating movers, creating observers and post-processors, and performing large Design of Experiments (DoE) studies
- Experience creating compelling OV-1s, data visualization, and other briefing materials to explain simulation techniques, assumptions, and insights to a variety of audiences
- Experience executing technology development and EMD contracts with DoD customers
- Experience leading Operations Research studies, including identifying Technical Performance Metrics (TPMs) and developing study plans from Statements of Work (SOWs) and Statements of Objectives (SOOs)
- Comfortable with high level programming languages such as C/C++.
- Strong software development principles with the ability to manage computer resources for data throughput and distributed systems.
- Experience developing and using analysis tools such as MATLAB, Python, VBA, or similar tools
- Comfortable developing in multiple operating systems as well as integrating systems across OS boundaries. (Windows/Linux)
- Strong debugging skills, ability to use common debuggers, compilers and command line execution.
- Ability to develop shell scripts for program execution
- Knowledge of and experience with software engineering development lifecycle processes
- Experience with version control tools (Bitbucket, GitHub, or Gitlab, etc.)
- Experience integrating custom plug-ins to AFSIM
- Experience with working with and programming distributed simulation protocols such as DIS or HLA
- Experience performing modeling, simulation, and analysis tasks assessing system survivability, system effectiveness, and overall system performance in engagement / mission-level scenarios.
- Knowledge of RF Threat Modeling, of Electronic Attack techniques and modeling, guided missile design
- Knowledge of any of the following simulation frameworks: AFSIM, Suppressor, Brawler, JWS, AJEM, ESAMS
- Familiarity with Agile, MBSE, and / or system architecture frameworks
- Effective project management skills and good communication techniques . click apply for full job details
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