Systems Engineer level 6 – Product Line

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: Yes 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. Northrop Grumman Space Systems – central region (MDI BU) has an exciting career opportunity for a Senior Staff Systems Engineer (Level 6) to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals. This position will be located in Huntsville, AL.

Overview: The selected Sr. Staff Systems Engineer responsibilities will include the support of the MDI Futures and GWS program as both an individual contributor and Product line leadership with time allocation of 70% MDI-F / BSW and 30% GWS. This role will serve as the technical leader for extension of existing Missile Defense Integration (MDI) Business Unit (BU) capabilities into product lines, collaborating across MDI BU functions to develop business strategies aligned with compelling technical offerings to support BU growth objectives.  Additionally, this role will support the planning and execution of BU Internal Research & Development (IR&D) projects to mature technologies that support future capture opportunities.  Finally,  this role will provide technical expertise where needed across existing programs within the MDI BU portfolio.  This role will coordinate across functions in a fast paced-environment, developing technical solutions that meet customer technical, cost, and schedule requirements. Programmatic focus will be on the activities to develop key technologies, integrate and shape solutions for the MDI BU while also supporting the creation of new strategies to win and execute future development programs.  Serve as the technical counterpart to the product line manager and as the technical lead for product line capture and proposal efforts.   Serve as the technical liaison to customers and industry partners for product line opportunities.  Foster collaboration across the MDI BU to facilitate technical knowledge sharing, development of technology maturation roadmaps, and provide leadership to IR&D planning and execution to position technical offerings for future opportunities. Provide technical leadership, solutioning, and risk-based decision making through assistance to ongoing program execution. Provide mentoring to other technical employees in the application of system architecture and systems engineering principles, tools, and techniques to achieve results through managing people, internal processes and customer/supplier relationships.  Provide insight and knowledge transfer to others on internal and external technical solutions to solve complex problems.  Develop and present technical solutions to senior leadership, collaborate across BUs, divisions, sectors within the company as well as with industry partners and customer community, using strong communication skills.  The selected candidate should thrive in a fast-paced work environment with high expectations, significantly diverse assignments, and collaborative team settings across all levels.

Bachelor’s Degree in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) discipline from an accredited university and 14 years of