RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE TYPE: Secret

TRAVEL: Yes, 25% 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 Aeronautics Systems has an opening for a Principal or Sr. Principal Vehicle Management Systems (VMS) Engineer Aeronautical to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals within our South Bay Vehicle Engineering organization.  This position is located in Redondo Beach, CA or El Segundo, CA.

The selected candidate should thrive in a fast-paced work environment with high expectations and collaborative/team settings across all levels.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

Experience designing flight critical hardware architecture for an air vehicle.

Define, develop, and manage components, interface definitions, and implementation approaches of flight critical systems such as:

Flight control computers or vehicle management computers

Flight control actuation systems (FCAS)

Air data systems (ADS)

IMU and GPS for Navigation

Electrical power systems

Experience working with hardware in a hands-on laboratory environment.

Ability to troubleshoot hardware and software problems.

Experience developing in one or more of the following languages C, C++, Rust and Python.

Ability to read and evaluate an electrical schematic.

Perform component hardware and software integration, and derive software requirements for control of flight-critical and safety-critical systems

Develop and execute component, subsystem, and system level test procedures to verify functionality of the VMS hardware and software.

Basic understanding of flight dynamics and attitude control (roll, pitch, and yaw) through thrust and control surface (i.e. aileron, ruddervator) actuation.

Define key subsystem-level requirements from high level aircraft and program requirements to define avionics hardware architectures according to customer specifications

Investigate and resolve system anomalies across multiple engineering disciplines

Perform technical planning, analysis, and hardware trade studies to meet requirements.

Coordinate and manage suppliers for hardware procurement

This requisition may be filled at either a Principal or Sr. Principal VMS Engineer Aeronautical level.

Basic Qualifications for Principal VMS Engineer Aeronautical:

Bachelor’s Degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) field from an accredited university with 5 years of related engineering experience OR a master’s degree (STEM) with 3 years of related engineering experience OR a PhD Degree (STEM) discipline from an accredited university with a minimum of 1 year of experience.

Priority given to individuals with a degree in computer, software or electrical / electronic engineering.

Experience with design, development, and/or integration of the Air Vehicle systems and subsystems listed above

Experience with defining electrical and data interfaces (such as MIL-STD-1553, RS-232, ARINC 429, or analog interfaces)

Experience with hardware/software integration

Must have a current active in-scope DoD Secret security clearance or higher, with the ability to obtain Special Program Access (SAP).

Basic Qualifications for Sr Principal VMS Engineer Aeronautical:

Bachelor’s Degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) field from an accredited university with 8 years of related engineering experience OR a master’s degree (STEM) with 6 years of related engineering experience OR a PhD Degree (STEM) with 4 years

Priority given to individuals with a degree in computer, software or electrical / electronic engineering.

Extensive experience with design, development, and/or integration of the Air Vehicle systems and subsystems listed above

Extensive experience with defining electrical and data interfaces (such as MIL-STD-1553, RS-232, ARINC 429, or analog interfaces)

Extensive experience with hardware/software integration, verification & validation

Extensive experience with engineering modeling and simulation

Must have a current active in-scope DoD Secret security clearance or higher, with the ability to obtain Special Program Access (SAP).

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience writing device specific ICD parsing software (e.g. Parsing an inertial measurement unit byte stream to receive appropriate acceleration data)

Experience with utilizing lab test equipment (e.g. oscilloscope, multimeter, etc.)

Experience developing within a real-time operating system.

Experience working with and developing for communication protocols such as, RS-232, RS-485 or MIL-STD-1553.

Experience developing within the Linux for ARM environment.

Excellent oral, written, and interpersonal communication skills

Ability to lead a team, organize work, manage time, plan, and prioritize

A current active in-scope U.S. Government DoD Secret clearance with current or previous Special Access Program (SAP).

Salary Range: $110,300.00 - $165,500.00Salary Range 2: $137,400.00 - $206,000.00

The 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.

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 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 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 all positions with a government clearance and certain other restricted positions.