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Northrop Grumman Defense Systems (NGDS) is looking for you to join our team as a Staff Engineer Systems based out of Huntsville, Alabama on the Integrated Air and Missile Defense (IAMD) Battle Command System (IBCS/WISLA) foreign military sales efforts. IBCS/WISLA integrates disparate radars and weapons to construct a far more effective IAMD enterprise. IBCS/WISLA delivers a single integrated air picture with unprecedented accuracy and broadens surveillance and protection areas. By implementing IBCS/WISLA into their militaries, other nations will transform their IAMD capabilities in a manner consistent with the U.S. Army.

As a Staff Engineer Systems, you will perform technical planning, system integration, verification and validation, cost and risk, and supportability and effectiveness analyses for total systems. Perform analysis at all levels of total system product to include: concept, design, fabrication, test, installation, operation, maintenance and disposal. Ensure the logical and systematic conversion of customer or product requirements into total systems solutions that acknowledge technical, schedule, and cost constraints. Perform functional analysis, timeline analysis, detail trade studies, requirements allocation and interface definition studies to translate customer requirements into hardware and software specifications.

Full access to program leadership to include staffing and executing the proposal with a transition into program startup. Working with leadership team to develop staffing, organizational structures and program execution strategies. Integration with functional support within NG.
Developing estimates to define System Engineering in support of new weapons and sensors integration, hardware design, major end item deliveries, integration and test activities, and logistics services. Supporting full traceability across IMS, IMP, WBS, and SOW. Development and execution of FMS capabilities while maintaining ITAR compliance. Proposal development and approval processes, program startup with initial baseline
and EVMS implementation. This is a significant opportunity to grow and learn the business impacts of a large program.

Basic Qualifications:

• 14 Years with Bachelors in Science; 12 Years with Masters; 9 Years with PhD
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• Product Line Engineering.
• Agile principles and concepts,
• Solid systems engineering fundamentals.

- Design experience that resulted in implementation of an operational product; including the ability to make quick design decisions and produce design artifacts from which developers may write code - develop Concepts, Epics, Features

• Experience at the higher and lower levels of system architecture, design, and model-based engineering and the use of each of these in the test process
• Experience in developing system test, analyzing data, and the development and documentation of new capabilities for current systems and as new systems are brought into the architecture.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Agile or SAFe
• Technical experience with AMD: C2 (highest priority) with understanding of weapons, sensors, distributed computing, Type-1 computing (and these systems impact on a command and control system's architecture, requirements, and interfaces for communications between these systems);

particularly with IBCS

• Experience with object oriented analysis/design or equivalent paradigms, where the requirement analysis process results in useable design artifacts.
• OOA/D experience with relational tool such as MagicDraw, Rhapsody, RoSE, etc.
• Ability to understand code on an as needed basis (e.g., C++ of similar)
• Design and implementation experience that resulted in Classification, Identification, and Discrimination (CID) algorithm implementations, SME in existing, modern CID algorithms and techniques for AMD
• Joint interoperability specialist: experience developing or testing Link-16, IBS, or IFF

RF and communications specialist: add capacity to adverse condition maturation

• Track Management specialist: experience and understanding of the Track Management algorithms

Salary Range: $150,000 USD - $200,000 USD

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.

The health and safety of our employees and their families is a top priority. The company encourages employees to remain up-to-date on their COVID-19 vaccinations. U.S. Northrop Grumman employees may be required, in the future, to be vaccinated or have an approved disability/medical or religious accommodation, pursuant to future court decisions and/or government action on the currently stayed federal contractor vaccine mandate under Executive Order 14042 https://www.saferfederalworkforce.gov/contractors/.

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. For our complete EEO/AA and Pay Transparency statement, please visit http://www.northropgrumman.com/EEO. U.S. Citizenship is required for most positions.