2027 Associate Systems Engineer / Systems Engineer

Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems has an opening for a T01 Associate Systems Engineer or T02 Systems Engineer to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals. The position will be located in Melbourne, Florida.

As part of the Nuclear Hardness and Survivability (NH&S) team, the engineer will have a unique opportunity to support design and mitigation strategies to develop and field a survivable weapon system with operational requirements involving the following nuclear threat environments: Electromagnetic Pulse, Ionizing Radiation, Thermal Radiation, Air-Blast and Radiological exposure.

The candidate will be an integral contributor to the Ionizing Radiation hardening effort throughout the Engineering & Manufacturing Development and

Production & Deployment phases of the program providing expertise including the following:

• Generating weapon system design criteria supported by design analysis, modeling & simulation, equipment and system-level trade studies, system integration, piece-part, component, equipment, and system test artifacts.
• Developing system-level NH&S Design Analysis Reports (DAR) and nuclear hardness system test plans and reports documenting equipment compliance and weapon system certification.
• Preparing and presenting Nuclear Survivability engineering artifacts supporting requirements compliance and weapon system performance traceability throughout Design Reviews.
• Lead and execute the analysis and/or evaluation/validation of components, equipment, subsystems, or weapon system analytical models and actual system implementation for weapons compliance to operationally relevant nuclear threat environments.
• Domain Specific Responsibilities/Technical Skills
• Working knowledge of nuclear weapons effects and resulting Transient Radiation Effects on Electronics (TREE) of DoD and commercial systems.
• Technical planning, specification requirements derivation, test and analysis, design, planning and execution, documentation, and requirements/validation supporting overall system compliance.
• Experience with electrical circuit rad-hard design including piece-part screening, analysis, modeling, and test of component and systems for radiation environment compliance i.e. prompt dose rate, total ionizing dose, neutron displacement damage, neutron induced upset, single event effects.
• Experience with electrical circuit and/or system level design and test.
• Knowledge of Circumvention & Recovery techniques for component, circuit, equipment subsystems compliance and weapon system level probabilistic performance assessments during pre/trans and post nuclear weapon environment exposure.
• Evaluate uncertainty and risks associated with rad-hard requirements and design mitigation strategies.
• Experience working with other Federal agencies, industry, National and/or Service Laboratories & Test facilities.
• Represent Northrop Grumman Corporation as a technical expert for the Program and with DoD customers.

• Bachelor of Science degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) discipline (Physics, Electrical Engineering, etc.) with 0 years of experience in engineering; OR Master of Science degree in a STEM discipline with 0 years of experience in engineering; OR PhD in a STEM discipline with 0 years of experience in engineering.
• Be able to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government security clearance (U.S. citizenship is a pre-requisite), or a final Secret clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain an interim Top Secret within a reasonable period of time, as determined by the company to meet its business needs (U.S. citizenship is a pre-requisite). Final approved U.S. Government interim top secret clearance (U.S. citizenship is a pre-requisite) may be required to start.

• Ability to travel 10% is required., * Bachelor of Science degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) discipline with 2 years of experience in engineering; OR Master of Science degree in a STEM discipline with 0 years of experience in engineering; OR PhD in a STEM discipline with 0 years of experience in engineering.

• Be able to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government security clearance (U.S. citizenship is a pre-requisite), or a final Secret clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain an interim Top Secret within a reasonable period of time, as determined by the company to meet its business needs (U.S. citizenship is a pre-requisite). Final approved U.S. Government interim top secret clearance (U.S. citizenship is a pre-requisite) may be required to start.
• Ability to travel 10% is required, * Nuclear Command, Control & Communication weapon system survivability design experience
• Analysis experience with radiation environments including man-made and natural space environment.
• Analysis experience in Reliability, Availability, Maintainability & Testability (RAMT) including probabilistic risk assessment as applicable to semiconductor TREE susceptibilities.

Experience and/or familiarity with the following standards and handbooks:

• DODI 3150.09
• MIL-STD-1766, AFWL-TR-86-26, * Experience and/or familiarity with the following engineering software/tools
• COMSOL, ANSYS, CST, FEKO
• Cadence/Spice
• Mathworks MATLAB, PTC MathCad, Wolfram Mathematica
• NX, Siemens Teamcenter, CAMEO

Preferred Qualifications

• Have an overall cumulative GPA of 3.25/4.0 or higher.
• Previous internship/co-op or other work experience, leadership & teamwork capabilities, interpersonal communication skills, and activities (professional/community/extracurricular)

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.