
Associate Systems Engineer
Required skills
- US Citizenship
- DOD Secret clearance
- Mechanical
- Electrical
- Production Engineering
- Microsoft Office
Nice to have
- Aerospace and defense
- CSP
- CISSP
- CSEP
- CRE
Role summary
Northrop Grumman is seeking an Associate Systems Engineer for their Specialty Engineering team in Plymouth, MN. This role supports munition, fuzing, and weapon system development programs, focusing on domains such as Systems Safety, Reliability, Maintainability, Product Cybersecurity, Integrated Logistics Support, Human Factors, and Cost Modeling. Responsibilities include performing engineering analyses (e.g., FMECA, FTA, SHA), leading safety programs, participating in design reviews, and supporting proposal efforts. The position requires a Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a STEM field, 1-2 years of engineering experience, US Citizenship, and the ability to obtain a Secret clearance. Strong interest in learning diverse engineering skills and collaborating with various engineering disciplines is essential.
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.Northrop Grumman is seeking a Systems Engineer to join the Specialty Engineering team based in Plymouth, MN. The Specialty Engineering team supports munition, fuzing, and weapon system development programs.
Members of the Specialty Engineering team are Systems Engineers who support multiple engineering domains including: Systems Safety, Reliability, Availability, Maintainability, Product Cybersecurity, Integrated Logistics Support, Product Support, Human Factors, and Unit Production Cost Modeling.
Responsibilities of the Position:
- Work with team members to plan and execute specialty engineering tasks from the Specialty Engineering domains to support a wide variety of programs. Specialty Engineering domains include: Systems Safety, Reliability, Availability, Maintainability, Product Cybersecurity, Integrated Logistics Support, Product Support, Human Factors, and Unit Production Cost Modeling.
- Perform detailed Specialty Engineering analyses in close collaboration with design engineering throughout weapon system development programs. Examples are: Failure Mode Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMECA), Fault Tree Analysis (FTA), and System Hazard Analysis (SHA).
- Lead Safety Programs from planning to successful safety acceptance with Safety Review Boards.
- Perform as a lead Specialty Engineer in design reviews, failure investigations, and customer working group meetings.
- Support bidding and proposal work in collaboration with Specialty Engineering Manager.
- Work with Systems Design Engineering team to define, track, and verify requirements that support system development objectives tied to specialty engineering domains.
- Work with Test Engineering and Environmental Health & Safety (EH&S) to define processes and procedures that permit safe conduct and execution of test events and manufacturing of systems.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor of Science Degree in Engineering discipline or relevant STEM field
1-2 years of Engineering experience highly desired - US Citizenship
- Ability to obtain a DOD Secret clearance.
- Strong interest to work closely with engineers from various engineering disciplines. These disciplines include Systems, Mechanical, Electrical, Software, and Production Engineering.
- Strong interest to learn a wide variety of skills across multiple engineering domains. These engineering domains include: Systems Safety, Reliability, Availability, Maintainability, Product Cybersecurity, Integrated Logistics Support, Product Support, Human Factors, and Unit Production Cost Modeling
- Familiarity with standard Microsoft Office products and ability to learn new toolsets.
- Strong verbal and written communication and interpersonal skills
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience leading technical efforts
- Experience mentoring others
- Experience planning, executing, and on-time delivery of customer deliverables
- Experience performing engineering analyses (e.g. Hazard Analysis, FMECA, FTA, etc.)
- Aerospace and defense product experience
- Experience with MIL-STD-882E System Safety, or equivalent system safety standard
- Relevant Specialty Engineering domain experience (e.g. Safety, Maintainability, Reliability, Cybersecurity etc.)
- Certification in a relevant engineering domain or discipline (e.g. CSP, CISSP, CSEP, CRE, etc.)
- Experience presenting technical information to large audiences
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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