Principal Systems Analyst/Engineer

Company: Northrop Grumman
Location: Huntsville
Posted on: March 17, 2023

Job Description:

US CITIZENSHIP REQUIRED FOR THIS POSITION: Yes
RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available
CLEARANCE TYPE: Secret
TRAVEL: No
Description
Join Northrop Grumman on our continued mission to push the boundaries of possible across land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace. Enjoy a culture where your voice is valued and start contributing to our team of passionate professionals providing real-life solutions to our world's biggest challenges. We take pride in creating purposeful work and allowing our employees to grow and achieve their goals every day by Defining Possible. With our competitive pay and comprehensive benefits, we have the right opportunities to fit your life and launch your career today.
Northrop Grumman Space Systems Sector is seeking a talented and motivated mid-career Principal Systems Engineer or Analyst to join our team in Huntsville, AL.
The qualified applicant will become part of Northrop Grumman's Ground Based Midcourse Defense (GMD) Performance Analysis team. GMD is currently the only deployed strategic system that can defend the United States from long range attack by threat ICBMs. We need a motivated and innovative candidate with experience in missile defense concepts, operations, software programming.
Roles and Responsibilities:
The candidate will apply expertise in engineering/physics to perform systems performance analysis on the GMD system. Performance analysis entails identifying and finding root causes behind deviations from the system performance requirements.
The responsibilities of the job include:

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  Use simulations of the GMD system to characterize performance and assess technical performance measures that are derived from simulation output.
  
  
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  Present and explain results to other engineering teams and managers in a clear and concise manner.
  
  
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  Help train and mentor other engineers in conducting performance analysis.
  
  
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  Leverage software programming knowledge to create independent tools to assist in automation and evaluation of results from the various simulations. This includes tools to load the simulation on blade servers, pre-processing tools for quality checks and formatting, and post-processing tools for formatting outputs, plotting results, and analyzing results.
  
  
  Basic Qualifications:
  
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    A Bachelor's degree in a technical field and 5+ years of relevant experience or master's degree in a technical field and 3+ years of relevant experience or PhD with studies in a technical field with 0 years minimum experience
    
    
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    Monte Carlo simulations to produce performance data experience.
    
    
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    Modeling and/or assessing performance data for a missile defense system or relevant equivalent experience.
    
    
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    Writing software scripts and tools to automate processes such as quality control checks, data formatting, and managing runs on a blade server cluster experience.
    
    
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    Position requires a current Secret Clearance and U.S. citizenship.
    
    
    Preferred Qualifications:
    
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      Experience working in a missile defense program (GMD, Aegis BMD, THAAD, etc)
      
      
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      Basic understanding of common missile defense concepts such as system and source tracks, application of radars to tracking, covariance and error, defended area, and the kill chain concept of operations.
      
      
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      Demonstrated ability to apply these concepts to assess performance of a missile defense system or component.
      
      
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      Experience in leveraging aerospace concepts to develop software scripts.
      
      
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      Ability to write scripts in Python and/or Matlab.
      
      
      Salary Range: $95,100.00 - $142,700.00
      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 health and safety of our employees and their families is a top priority . The company encourages employees to remain up-to-date on their COVID-19 vaccinations. U.S. Northrop Grumman employees may be required, in the future, to be vaccinated or have an approved disability/medical or religious accommodation, pursuant to future court decisions and/or government action on the currently stayed federal contractor vaccine mandate under Executive Order 14042 https://www.saferfederalworkforce.gov/contractors/ .
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