Staff Engineer Aeronautical Product Architect

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available

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 Aeronautics Systems has an opening for a Staff Engineer Aeronautical Product Architect to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals within our Vehicle Management System organization located in Rancho Bernardo, CA.

Overview:

In this role, you will be responsible for defining a comprehensive system architecture. This includes critical decisions regarding the selection and sizing of CPUs, FPGAs, and memory; you will also determine the design of the internal and external bus topology. Working alongside the mechanical and hardware leads, you will drive the design of power-supplies and the development of thermal management strategies while establishing effective dataflow, clocking methodologies, and a BIT philosophy. By conducting rigorous trade studies, you will steer part selection to meet performance, configuration, environmental, and lifecycle requirements, while identifying modular subsystems for potential reuse across the product line.

Collaboration with program leadership is essential as you develop and execute a thorough analysis plan, provide accurate time estimates, and support overall scheduling and planning. Managing prototyping and validation efforts, you will oversee the creation of proof-of-concept and engineering models. You will also be tasked with defining and reviewing test strategies—which encompass environmental, thermal, and EMC testing—to ensure that all documentation supports airworthiness certification. Finally, you will partner with the team to implement integrated tool suites that include Requirements Management (ALM), MBSE, PLM, and other analysis tools, ensuring a robust and innovative engineering process.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a STEM discipline (Science, Technology, Engineering or Math) with 12 years of related professional engineering experience; OR a Master’s degree in STEM with 10 years of related professional engineering experience, OR a PhD in STEM with 8 years of related professional engineering experience.

• Ability to obtain and maintain an active DOD Secret clearance

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with safety critical HW/SW development, preferably in the aerospace industry.

• Successful history of implementing Ethernet, TSN, CANbus, Serial interfaces RS-232/485/422), PCIe, etc.

• Product-specific experience with VxWorks, AMD UltraScale+ MPSoCs and Vivado

Primary Level Salary Range: $177,000.00 - $265,600.00

The above salary range represents a general guideline; however, Northrop Grumman considers a number of factors when determining base salary offers such as the scope and responsibilities of the position and the candidate's experience, education, skills and current market conditions.

Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and 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 application period for the job is estimated to be 20 days from the job posting date. However, this timeline may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates.

Northrop Grumman is an Equal Opportunity 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. For our complete EEO and pay transparency statement, please visit http://www.northropgrumman.com/EEO. U.S. Citizenship is required for all positions with a government clearance and certain other restricted positions.