Sr Staff Engineer Systems

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 Sr Staff Engineer  - NATO Final Infrastructure Systems Engineering Lead to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals. This position will be located in San Diego, CA.

The selected candidates will lead the Systems Engineering and Integration (SE&I) effort for the RQ-4 NATO Final Infrastructure program, holding overall responsibility for SE&I execution reporting directly to the RQ-4 NATO Systems Engineering Lead.  This individual will be working closely with the RQ-4 NATO Final Infrastructure Program Team and various engineering functions to ensure the overall system meets all performance requirements and capabilities while managing the Technical Baseline.

• Manage and lead a team SE&I engineers and managers across IFC, R&V, Architecture, Integration, Specialty, Mission Engineering, and Integrated Functional Capability disciplines.
• Manage and oversee Systems Engineering execution of the overall cost, schedule, and technical baseline for the respective program.
• Extensive interface and coordination with program management, customer counterparts, and sub-contractors.
• Lead and oversee successful milestone reviews (e.g. SRR, SFR, PDR, CDR, FCA).
• Lead successful requirements definition, decomposition, allocation, and final verification across a complex system.
• Lead a multidisciplinary team to decompose and define customer CONOPs, Performance Specifications, and Use Cases/OpsCon scenarios into robust, verifiable requirements at the System and Segment Level.
• Perform Risk and Opportunity management.
• Lead and prepare proposals and baseline planning for new activities.
• Utilize Agile methodologies which will enable rapid capability insertion and reduce time to field Implement tools, technologies, and procedure to enable more efficient integration.
• Tailor Requirements and Verification processes to ensure appropriate rigor is applied to a program’s size/scope/complexity.
• Define and maintain standard R&V products and processes, ensuring appropriate usage across all programs.
• Utilize Integrated Functional Capability (IFC) Planning and certification process
• Utilize our Defect Management, Defect Review Board (DRB), and Content Inclusion Review Board (CIRB) processes to maintain the technical baseline of the system
• Utilize Agile methodologies which will enable rapid capability insertion and reduce time to field Implement tools, technologies, and procedure to enable more efficient integration.
• Oversee appropriate implementation of below-Segment level requirements (i.e. Subsystem/Element or Unit HW and SW) within other IPTs
• Presentation skills to effectively provide status to internal executive management and customers.

• Must have a Bachelors degree in a STEM field and at least 14 years of professional/military experience OR a Master's Degree in a STEM field and at least 12 years of relevant military / professional experience OR a PhD and at least 10 years of relevant military / professional experience.
• Previous Experience leading Milestone Reviews (e.g. SRR, PDR, CDR, FCA)
• Previous Experience in managing Technical Baselines (Functional and Allocated Baselines).
• Requirements verification and validation experience. 
• Experience leading a team of 10+ individuals in a technical environment.
• Must have an Active DoD Secret or higher clearance (with a background investigation completed within the last 6 years or currently enrolled into Continuous Evaluation).

• Experience with NATO customers
• Experience with NATO operations
• Experience with NATO ground segment architecture
• Experience with modern ground segment architecture and design.
• Preferred Functional Configuration Audit (FCA) experience.
• Experience in Tasking, Collecting, Planning, Exploitation, and Dissemination (TCPED).
• DOORS experience with an emphasis on requirements management and metrics generation.
• Experience with Integrated Functional Capability (IFC) Planning and Certification.
• Experience with interfaces ICDs.
• Experience in developing proposals.
• Experience in leading technical development efforts under Firm Fixed Price (FFP) contract structure.
• Experience with Use Case generation per SYSML/UML standards with an understanding of OV-1 down to SV-4 diagrams. DODAF architecture knowledge.
• Experience managing suppliers.
• Experience in Agile Development.
• Active DoD Top Secret clearance with current SCI.