Sr Principal Data Scientist

Relocation Assistance

Relocation assistance may be available.

Clearance Required for Start

Yes.

Clearance Type

Secret.

Travel

Yes, 10% of the time.

Description

At Northrop Grumman, our employees have opportunities to work on revolutionary systems that impact people’s lives around the world today and for future generations. We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage, and a pioneering spirit to invent the future and have fun along the way.

This position will be located in Melbourne, FL.

Essential Functions

• Define instrumentation system configurations and signal conditioning requirements and architectures common to airborne data acquisition hardware, including gathering, tracking, and communicating requirements effectively to multidisciplinary teams.
• Perform a variety of duties, including engineering design tasks, participating in electrical design reviews, and supporting architecture and electrical design teams to ensure hardware and system design allow for accurate data collection.
• Develop architectural implementations for TTC airborne data acquisition systems, telemetry ground station equipment including auto‑tracking antennas, RF receivers, bit‑syncs, decommutators, demultiplexers, communication system matrix, chapter 10 recorders, and camera systems.

Basic Qualifications

• Must have a Bachelor of Science degree in a STEM discipline and 8 years of related professional/military experience, or a Master’s degree and 6 years of related professional/military experience, or a Ph.D. and 4 years of related professional/military experience.
• Must have an active U.S. Government Secret clearance (background investigation within the past 6 years or enrolled in Continuous Evaluation).
• Must have the ability to obtain and maintain Special Access Program (SAP) clearance within a reasonable amount of time as determined by business needs.
• Experience working in flight test or lab test environments, including hardware integration and test operations.
• Solid understanding of application and implementation of data systems, telemetry and RF, onboard recording systems, ground stations, subsystems, and specialized instrumentation test equipment.
• Full knowledge of the capabilities, uses, and limitations of strain gages, accelerometers, pressure transducers, and other commonly used instrumentation sensors.
• Strong knowledge of data bus architecture MIL-STD-1553, IEEE-1394, ARINC-429, RS-232, and RS-422.

Preferred Qualifications

• Design and operational experience with TTC data systems.
• Ability to create detailed design specifications, ICDs, and/or interconnect diagrams.
• Significant and frequent direct customer interaction and ability to clearly communicate and exchange system level requirements and data at a customer level.
• Familiarity with fundamental principles of Symvionics IADS software or working in a Mission Control Room.
• Ability to perform under minimal direction and independently determine and develop approach to solutions and communicate effectively to program and customer leadership.

Primary Level Salary Range: $135,000.00 - $202,600.00.

Employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, a discretionary bonus, and (for VP or Director positions) Long Term Incentives. Benefits include health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, savings plan, company‑paid holidays, and paid time off for vacation and/or personal business.

Northrop Grumman is an Equal Opportunity 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. For our complete EEO and pay transparency statement, please visit U.S. Citizenship is required for all positions with a government clearance and certain other restricted positions.