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# Staff Reliability Engineer

- **Company:** Northrop Grumman
- **Location:** Los Angeles, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $177,000.0 - $265,600.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Failure Mode Effects Analysis, PTC Windchill, Reliability of Systems
- **Published:** August 13, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.beyondlosangeles.com/job.asp?id=3351762820&tx=VT6257TTZ&pt=1&aff=0B19D771-A501-4A5E-8338-2A822B784D54&utm_source=Job%20Feed&utm_medium=textkernel&utm_campaign=DE&utm_term=0B19D771-A501-4A5E-8338-2A822B784D54

## About the Role

Northrop Grumman is seeking a Staff Reliability Engineer with the ability to obtain a security clearance to work with our Specialty Engineering Team out of Woodland Hills, CA. Our success is grounded in our ability to embrace change, move quickly and continuously drive innovation. The successful candidate will be collaborative, open, transparent, and team-oriented with a focus on team empowerment & shared responsibility, flexibility, continuous learning, and a culture of automation. This is an exciting, challenging and specialized role for a talented, energized and innovative individual who wants to pursue growth in Reliability, Maintainability, and Testability Engineering. This is fully onsite position located in Woodland Hills, CA working a 9/80 schedule., * Bachelor's in Electrical Engineering (or related STEM Discipline) with a minimum of 12 years of relevant experience; Master's with 10 years of relevant experience; PhD with 8 year relevant experience.

 * Demonstrated experience in Reliability, Maintainability, and Testability disciplines.
 * Ability to read electronic circuit schematics and understand component failure modes/mechanisms.
 * Experience developing a Piece-Part FMEA/FMECA.
 * Clear and effective verbal and written communication skills to be able to interact with team members, peers and leadership within NGMS and the customer community.
 * Innovative mindset with focus on process improvement.
 * U.S. Citizenship is required.
 * The ability to obtain and maintain a U.S Government Secret Security Clearance is required within a time frame set forth by management., * Experience with hands-on RMT analysis and modeling skills for electronic and non-electronic systems, including experience with Reliability Analysis Software and modeling tools (PTC Windchill Quality Solutions preferred).
 * Demonstrated experience within aerospace or defense industry
 * Experience performing Useful Life Analysis and Operational Service Life Analysis.
 * Experience planning and supporting Highly Accelerated Life Testing (HALT).
 * Familiarity with Fault Tree Analysis.
 * Familiarity with additional specifications such as MIL-HDBK-472, MIL-STD-2155, MIL-STD-882E.
 * Experience with DO-254 Hardware Certification Process.
 * ASQ Certified Reliability Engineer.
 * Possess active U.S. Government Secret Security Clearance.

## Description

* Conduct Failure Modes Effects Analyses (FMEA), Failure Modes Effects Criticality Analyses (FMECA), and Testability analyses.
 * Support Failure Reporting Analysis and Corrective Action System (FRACAS) as needed.
 * Support Built-In Test BIT Design Verification Testing (BIT Demos).
 * Utilize knowledge of documents such as MIL-HDBK-338, MIL-HDBK-2165 and MIL-HDBK-217 F(N2) to perform engineering analysis and make recommendations to design teams.
 * Collaborate with Integrated Product Teams (IPT), program management, customers, and suppliers for the Reliability, Maintainability and Testability (RMT) aspects of assigned systems.
 * Support identifying, planning and quoting the RMT tasks for proposals.


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