
Principal / Senior Principal Systems Engineer
Required skills
- Secret clearance
- Secret
- Systems Engineer
- Principal Systems Engineer
- Senior Principal Systems Engineer
- STEM discipline
- engineering experience
- technical baseline management
- decomposing and deriving requirements
- customer specifications
Nice to have
- relocation assistance
- MIL-STD-1553
- ARINC-429
- Ethernet
- Agile engineering team
- JIRA
Role summary
Northrop Grumman is seeking a Systems Engineer for their Mission Systems division. This role involves developing requirements, creating test cases, and verifying/validating requirements for complex systems. The ideal candidate will manage technical baselines using IBM Rational DOORS, act as a technical lead, and present to customers. Responsibilities include generating and managing requirements sets, leading Agile teams, and ensuring requirements are met through testing. A U.S. Government Secret clearance is required, and the position is onsite in Woodland Hills, CA.
Description
At Northrop Grumman, our employees have incredible opportunities to work on revolutionary systems that impact people's lives around the world today, and for generations to come. Our pioneering and inventive spirit has enabled us to be at the forefront of many technological advancements in our nation's history - from the first flight across the Atlantic Ocean, to stealth bombers, to landing on the moon. We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage and a pioneering spirit to join forces to invent the future, and have fun along the way. Our culture thrives on intellectual curiosity, cognitive diversity and bringing your whole self to work — and we have an insatiable drive to do what others think is impossible. Our employees are not only part of history, they're making history.We at Northrop Grumman Missions Systems are seeking a skilled Systems Engineer with a strong understanding of requirements development, test case development, and verification and validation of those requirements. The ideal candidate should be proficient with requirements technical baseline management via IBM Rational DOORS, and act as the technical lead and point of contact to the Chief Engineer and customer.
Key Responsibilities:
- Work with a broad customer base to identify unique requirements, flow the requirements into design documentation, and work with a diverse team to build and test those requirements.
- Present to customers on the capabilities of current products, performance analyses, design information, and requirements verification methods.
- Generate, review, and manage multiple requirements sets that cover all aspects of both performance and nonperformance including mechanical interfaces, electrical interfaces, data requirements, environmental requirements, and reliability.
- Awareness and responsiveness to contract milestones and deliverables.
- Lead an Agile team to ensure the designs are sufficient to meet the system requirements.
- Work with various Agile teams to ensure all requirements are verified through inspection, analysis, demonstration, or test often by providing test and data reduction scripts.
- Provide test directions to ensure production tests and troubleshooting tests are executed correctly and resulting data conforms to requirements.
Basic Qualifications Principal Systems Engineer:
- Bachelors degree in STEM discipline with 5+ years of engineering experience; Master's degree in STEM discipline with 3+ years of engineering experience; PhD in STEM discipline with 1+ years of engineering experience
- of engineering experience
- Experience with IBM Rational DOORS
- Demonstrated success with:
- Technical baseline management
- Writing and updating DOORS requirements
- Decomposing and deriving requirements based on customer specifications
- Experience in System Engineering activities such as:
- Software requirements development
- Requirements development
- Test Case development
- Verification and Validation, i.e. experience running tests and documenting results
- Excellent written and oral communication skills including:
- Demonstrated experience presenting to internal and external stakeholders
- Demonstrated experience communicating technical information, e.g. requirements updates, test plans, integration test plans, etc…
- Demonstrated Experience supporting test investigations and debugging efforts
- Collaborating with cross-functional teams
- A current/active U.S. Government Secret clearance is required
- Ability to work onsite full-time at Woodland Hills, CA
Basic Qualifications Senior Principal Systems Engineer:
- Bachelors degree in STEM discipline with 8+ years of engineering experience; Master's degree in STEM discipline with 6+ years of engineering experience; PhD in STEM discipline with 4+ years of engineering experience
- Experience with IBM Rational DOORS
- Demonstrated success with:
- Technical baseline management
- Writing and updating DOORS requirements
- Decomposing and deriving requirements based on customer specifications
- Experience in System Engineering activities such as:
- Software requirements development
- Requirements development
- Test Case development
- Verification and Validation, i.e. experience running tests and documenting results
- Excellent written and oral communication skills including:
- Demonstrated experience presenting to internal and external stakeholders
- Demonstrated experience communicating technical information, e.g. requirements updates, test plans, integration test plans, etc…
- Demonstrated Experience supporting test investigations and debugging efforts
- Collaborating with cross-functional teams
- A current/active U.S. Government Secret clearance is required
- Ability to work onsite full-time at Woodland Hills, CA
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with the following interfaces:
- MIL-STD-1553
- ARINC-429
- Ethernet
- Experience working in an Agile engineering team
- Experience with JIRA
- Systems Engineering experience on large, complex systems
- Lab and system integration experience
- Demonstrated experience with Model Based Systems Engineering and Cameo modeling (or equivalent)
- Experience with ClearQuest / ClearCase
Sample Northrop Grumman interview questions
- 1
Can you discuss the role of reusability and scalability in UVM's verification approach?
technicalmedium - 2
Can you detail the function of a register table within embedded system design?
technicalmedium - 3
Could you outline how virtual memory is implemented in embedded systems and its advantages?
system designmedium - 4
Can you discuss the role and functionality of a watchdog timer?
system designmedium - 5
What is your understanding of polymorphism in SystemVerilog?
technicalmedium
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