Performance Modelling Engineer - San Diego, CA, United States - BuildSubmarines

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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 is looking for a Systems Modeling & Simulation, Operations Analysis Engineer to support the Systems Engineering organization in Rancho Bernardo, CA.

Our work influences the investment decisions of our senior leadership and customer program offices. The Modeling and Simulation discipline itself is a mesh of many other fields (e.g. Systems Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Software Engineering, etc.) and frequently collaborates across functional disciplines, offering a unique opportunity to obtain a broad understanding of many areas or to narrowly focus on developing a deep expertise in one of the relevant fields.

The team performs the following tasks: developing models, creating scenarios, designing focused vignette threads and performing analysis.

The analysis includes a wide variety of system types and span multiple domains (friendly and adversary; You will work with air vehicle and subsystem engineers, as well as with program and customer leadership, to recommend candidate designs, and to develop Concepts of Operation (CONOPs) and Tactics, Techniques and Procedures (TTPs) at the system, mission, and campaign levels.

You will be responsible for developing new and/or integrating existing system simulation frameworks, performance models and algorithms, threat models and command and control models.

We offer flexible work arrangements, 9/80 work schedule with every other Friday off, 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.

Performs operational analysis and mission effectiveness analysis
Participate in Agile project framework
Models operational environments, performs trade studies via computer simulation, and recommends alternative architectures
Perform mission engineering activities to ensure continuity between desired operational capabilities and delivered system performance, through the Systems Engineering "V"
Ensure performance capabilities of new systems and architectures are traded against cost and mission requirements; Solicit input from various stakeholders, synthesize data, and communicate results to various levels of leadership within the organization
Develop software to model behavior of systems in real-time and constructive simulations

Must have a Bachelor of Science Degree in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) discipline and 5 years of relevant professional / military experience in Systems Engineering, OR a Master's Degree in a STEM discipline and 3 years of relevant professional / military experience in Systems Engineering, OR a PhD in a STEM discipline and relevant military / academic / professional experience in Systems Engineering.

Must have previous experience with object oriented programming languages (C, C++) or scripting languages (Python, MATLAB)
Must have the ability to obtain and maintain a Secret Clearance
Modeling and Simulation of Radars, Missiles, Integrated Air Defense Systems (IADS), air/ground/maritime/space platforms
Electronic Warfare (EW), Electronic Attack (EA), Electronic Protection (EP), Electronic Countermeasures
Radio Frequency (RF)/Infrared (IR)/Electro-Optical (EO)/Acoustic Modeling & Analysis
Analysis of Survivability, Lethality, Vulnerability, Engagement at the mission level
Computer Networking & Communications

Proposal development, writing or execution
Electronic Warfare Officer/Weapons Systems Officer
Intelligence or Communications Officer
Familiarity with AGILE, MBSE, and/or system architecture frameworks
Effective project management skills and good communication techniques

Excellent communications skills, including the ability to present and brief technical data to all levels of leadership within the organization and U.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.