Staff Mission Integration Specialist

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: No relocation assistance availableCLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: YesCLEARANCE TYPE: SecretTRAVEL: Yes, 75% of the Time

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 an experienced, technically proficient military operations professional to join Mission Integration & Solution Engineering within Northrop Grumman Innovation Engineering (NGINE).

The Staff Mission Integration Specialist role bridges operational experience and advanced engineering, ensuring that emerging technologies and technical solutions address real-world mission challenges. The successful candidate will leverage firsthand operational expertise, technical understanding, and strong customer engagement skills to identify unmet warfighter needs, evaluate emerging capabilities, and influence the development of mission-relevant solutions.

The ideal candidate combines significant military operational experience with technical fluency, analytical thinking, and a passion for innovation. This individual must be comfortable engaging military operators, government customers, and engineering teams to translate operational challenges into actionable technical opportunities. This position can be based onsite at Roy, UT or Huntsville, AL. This role can also support a full time teleworker.

Primary Responsibilities

• Operational Mission Expertise: Provide authoritative operational insight to engineering teams, helping identify mission challenges, capability gaps, operational constraints, and opportunities for innovation
• Warfighter Engagement: Build trusted relationships with military operators and government stakeholders to understand operational workflows, emerging threats, and unmet mission needs
• Mission Integration: Collaborate with engineers and technical leaders to translate operational insights into viable technical concepts, solution requirements, and engineering priorities
• Operational Evaluation: Participate in demonstrations, experimentation, prototyping, and user evaluations to assess mission relevance, operational suitability, and effectiveness of proposed solutions
• Technology Assessment: Evaluate emerging technologies and advanced capabilities from an operational perspective, identifying opportunities to improve mission performance and warfighter effectiveness
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with systems engineering, software engineering, Human Systems Integration (HIS), and other technical disciplines to incorporate operational feedback into development activities
• Continuous Improvement: Advocate for operator-centered engineering practices and contribute to iterative development approaches that accelerate delivery of effective mission capabilities

Basic Qualifications

• Active DoD Secret clearance
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience, subject to position-level requirements; minimum of 12 plus years relevant experience
• Military operational experience or directly comparable experience supporting complex military missions
• Demonstrated understanding of military operations, operational planning, mission execution, and associated technical systems
• Strong technical aptitude and the ability to engage effectively with engineers and technical subject matter experts
• Experience identifying operational challenges, assessing capability gaps, and communicating actionable recommendations
• Strong analytical, interpersonal, and communication skills, with the ability to engage credibly with military operators, government customers, and technical teams
• Ability to travel up to 75%

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with joint or multi-domain operations, command and control (C2), integrated air and missile defense, or other complex mission environments
• Experience supporting military technology development, operational testing, experimentation, or capability evaluation
• Familiarity with Operator-in-the-Loop, User-in-the-Loop, Human Systems Integration (HIS), or user-centered-design engineering approaches
• Understanding of modern defense technologies, including advanced software, AI-enabled capabilities, autonomous systems, and integrated mission systems
• Experience collaborating directly with engineering teams to develop, refine, or evaluate technical solutions

Primary Level Salary Range: $152,900.00 - $253,600.00The above salary range represents a general guideline; however, Northrop Grumman considers a number of factors when determining base salary offers such as the scope and responsibilities of the position and the candidate's experience, education, skills and current market conditions.Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and 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.The application period for the job is estimated to be 20 days from the job posting date. However, this timeline may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates.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.