System and Test Engineering - Palmdale, CA, United States - Northrop Grumman

Description

Category:
Engineering

Shift: 1st Shift (United States of America)

Travel Required:
Yes, 10% of the Time

Relocation Assistance:
Relocation assistance may be available

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 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.

Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems has an opening for a Staff Systems Test Engineer to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals within our Flight Test organization.

This role operates as a SME, directly contributing to the development of test plans, test schedules, and test procedures and support for integration testing.

The role will also assist in serving as the subject matter focal point to interface with internal and external organizations to develop test and test data requirements.

Participate in post-test data evaluation and discrepancy resolution to optimize test program performance to achieve EMD objectives.
Author detailed test plans, system checkout procedures, and system test request documents ensuring accurate requirements flow down.
Serve as an SME on payload systems, ensuring technical adequacy during planning and execution
Coordinate with other IPTs to identify and allocate test resources while mitigating risk/issues for seamless test flow.
Provide mission control room support making real-time decisions on system safety and performance.
Support and host test planning working groups.

We offer flexible work arrangements, phenomenal learning opportunities, exposure to a wide variety of projects and customers, and a very friendly team environment.

We are looking for self-motivated, proactive, and goal-oriented people to help us grow our services and become even better at what we do.

Our educational assistance program supports employee development by providing resources such as:

Access a network of accredited schools in a variety of locations (and online) to take advantage of reduced tuition costs and waived fees.

14 years of related experience with a Bachelor's Degree in STEM; Current Active DoD Top Secret clearance and the ability to obtain and maintain Special Program Access prior to start is required.

~ Requires comprehensive knowledge of engineering practices required to accomplish complex tasks with high-quality solutions and proficiency.
~ Experience developing detailed data management and analysis plans assessing system effectiveness of test articles.
~ In depth knowledge of test experience, to include mission control room operations.
~ Occasionally available to work odd shifts to include nights and weekends.

Experience leading strategic planning meetings with external customer technical representatives, responsible engineers, and program management.
History of utilization of system engineering practices to ensure interoperability across multiple delivery and guidance platforms.
Familiarity with operational air-to-air test operations, including planning, cost, schedule, and execution.

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.

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.