Staff Test Engineer (AHT)

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE TYPE: Secret

TRAVEL: Yes, 10% 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.

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 Advanced Weapons has an opening for a Staff Test Engineer with an active clearance, to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals. This position will be located in Northridge, CA. This is an on-site position.

As an integral part of our multi-discipline engineering team in Advanced Weapons, you will be the System Integration, Test & Evaluation (SIT&E) IPT Lead (IPTL) for our SiAW Program. As IPTL, you will be responsible for providing technical and operational leadership to the cross-functional organization across every aspect of day-to-day execution.

The individual, as part of the program leadership team, will have responsibility to assist in guiding all program activities related to design, development, and testing by focusing on delivering solutions, removing roadblocks, simplifying large, complex problems, and anticipating Customer needs to free up engineers to focus their time and attention on the technical problems they are best equipped to solve.

This position requires a combination of project management, process optimization, technical proficiency and execution skills. This role will drive communications and operations for the SIT&E team to keep the team informed and motivated, while prioritizing and supporting a healthy culture.

The IPT Lead serves an integral role in cultivating the Customer relationship, actively managing team requirements, and fostering program and team culture. The position requires a high degree of collaboration skills with the ability to provide insight into the status of multiple efforts at various levels of leadership. This role will be a trusted advisor and thought partner to design leadership in crafting the strategy, vision and detailed plan to verify/qualify the system.

The individual will be instrumental in fostering a culture of collaboration and excellence through mentorship, coaching, and influence.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Ensures that the program is adhering to sound engineering processes in development and test for our customers and is compliant with company policy, procedures, and quality standards.

• Maintains cognizance over technical activities within program Integrated Product Teams (IPTs) and ensures horizontal integration of the best engineering practices across the company

• Collaborates with the customer to define the flight test program to include provision of information needed to obtain airworthiness clearance for the missile on the test aircraft, test plans, telemetry visualization requirements, and on-site support for ground checkout and test flight execution

• Provides oversight of Hardware/software engineering STE development .

• Develops the test benches to satisfy derived verification requirements.

• Manages the test benches to support system integration.

• Performs test variant and tactical missile verification and validation test activities.

• Collaborates with Systems Engineering on the overall plan and detailed definition of the system verification activities.

• Identify potential risks and opportunities that could impact program performance and take proactive action to resolve issues regarding cost and schedule

• Build and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including customer counterparts.

• Communicate effectively and clearly present technical approaches and findings at technical and program reviews and boards.

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Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) with 12+ years experience OR a Master’s Degree in a STEM discipline with 10+ years experience

• **Must have an active/current Secret clearance at time of application with the ability to obtain Top Secret

• U.S,. citizen

• 3+ years of experience of leadership experience with a history of people management and operational excellence. Demonstrated track record of successful mentorship and accelerating reports growth, being an effective multiplier for the team.

• Experience running a high-paced product development team across multiple locations and time zones, and react effectively to changes in Customer prioritization

• An ability to engage in technical discussion and invest in learning technical concepts.

• Excellent judgment and composure in high-pressure situations.

• Meticulous attention to detail, including holding tightly to your team’s vision and maintaining a high product quality bar.

• Ability and willingness to travel.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Active Top Secret Clearance

• Prior leadership experience in IPT or SEIT Lead roles or equivalent

• Ability to monitor hardware and software design teams with critical insight to know when the teams are not on path to successful implementation and then be able help steer the team to a successful solution.

• Deep systems background defining and executing cost and schedule optimal T&E campaigns to support system verification.

• Willingness and enthusiasm to do what it takes to get things done, leading by example and getting involved with the team’s day-to-day work.

• Experience building and fostering a robust, collaborative, inclusive team environment 

• High emotional intelligence and the ability to adapt your communication and operational style situationally

• Experience working directly with product and engineering on ambiguous problems and crafting big picture strategies

• Ability to establish credibility and rapport with senior leadership

Salary Range: $155,500.00 - $233,300.00

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.

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 http://www.northropgrumman.com/EEO. U.S. Citizenship is required for all positions with a government clearance and certain other restricted positions.