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Senior Lead Space Payload Systems Engineer (Staff)

$153.6k - $230.4k

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Staff Systems Engineer

Join Northrop Grumman on our continued mission to push the boundaries of possible across land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace. Enjoy a culture where your voice is valued and start contributing to our team of passionate professionals providing real-life solutions to our world's biggest challenges. We take pride in creating purposeful work and allowing our employees to grow and achieve their goals every day by Defining Possible. With our competitive pay and comprehensive benefits, we have the right opportunities to fit your life and launch your career today.

The Payload and Ground Systems Division within Northrop Grumman Space Systems is a strategic partner specializing in delivering intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance solutions for classified and unclassified missions in space. Headquartered in Linthicum, Maryland, PGS RSP has offices, manufacturing, and world-class assembly, integration, and test facilities. We do it all here, on-site, from sensors to payloads to full up spacecraft, supporting Class A to Class D missions. Our key capabilities include Active RF, Passive RF, and Electro-Optical payloads, space solar power, cross domain missions, and space resilience payloads & solutions.

This position is for a Staff Systems Engineer to join our Remote Sensing Programs Systems Engineering, Integration and Test (RSP SEIT) team. As a member of this team, you will have the opportunity to support efforts on both concept and product development to deliver key solutions to our customers. We cover a wide variety expertise within the systems engineering domain. This includes mission engineering, requirements, architecture, modeling and simulation, integration and test, verification and validation, and many more!

The position will be responsible for supporting and leading systems engineering tasks for space subsystems, payloads and/or vehicles. These may include, but are not limited to:

  • Requirements analysis, derivation, and management
  • Mission Engineering, modeling, and analysis
  • Architecture and CONOPs development
  • Systems modeling and simulation
  • Functional analysis
  • Timeline analysis
  • Trade studies
  • Technical planning
  • Cost and risk analysis
  • Interface definition
  • System design
  • System integration and test
  • Verification and Validation planning and execution
  • Supportability and effectiveness analyses for total systems.
  • Some tools you could expect to use are: DOORS, STK, Cameo, Rhapsody, MATLAB, python

Basic Qualifications:

  • BS Degree in STEM with 14 years relevant experience; 12 years with MS Degree; or PhD Degree with 9 years of exp
  • Active TS or SCI clearance or ability to obtain TS clearance
  • Systems engineering experience (i.e. requirements, mission engineering, architecture, modeling and simulation, integration and test, verification and validation)

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Active TS/SCI clearance
  • Space experience
  • Sensor/payload experience:
  • Antennas
  • Radar
  • EO/IR
  • Communications
  • Processing, specifically On-Board Processing
  • Space vehicle experience
  • Space ground systems architecture and design experience
  • Mission engineering, modeling and simulation
  • Space Mission CONOPS
  • Assembly, Integration and Test (AI&T)

Salary Range: $153,600.00 - $230,400.00

Employees may be eligible for a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay. Annual bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions as well as allow employees to share in company results. Employees in Vice President or Director positions may be eligible for Long Term Incentives. In addition, Northrop Grumman provides a variety of benefits including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, savings plan, Company paid holidays and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business.

Northrop Grumman is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class.

Vacancy posted 4 days ago
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