Northrop Grumman Space Systems—Launch and Missile Defense Systems is seeking a Sr Principal Engineer Human Factors to support the Command and Control, Battle Management, and Communications (C2BMC) program, which is a vital component of the Missile Defense System. The role involves ensuring the system's requirements are understood and implemented in a human-usable manner, and serving as a technical interface for system operators on Human Machine Interface (HMI) issues.
Requirements
- Experience in requirements engineering, use case development, and logical architecture modeling of the Missile Defense System's Command and Control Battle Management and Communications (C2BMC) Element
- Experience participating in Missile Defense System verification and validation tests
- Ability to independently and collaboratively develop test objectives, concepts, and architecture within the Missile Defense System
- Experience with Agile Development Methods, team leadership, task tracking, issue resolution, and coordination
- Experience applying military standards and industry best practices to the development of user interfaces
- Experience with UX design
- Knowledge of large-scale software development environments, software architecture, systems engineering activities, and experience working in that type of environment
Responsibilities
- Support Warfighter involvement activities, including planning and executing Warfighter Round-Table meetings, participating in the C2BMC Regional Applications (RA) Agile Release Train (ART), liaising with the C2BMC SEIT, and applying military standards (e.g., MIL-STD-1472 and MIL-STD-2525) to meet the needs of the C2BMC end users
- Participate in ground and flight tests of the missile defense system or other user-in-the-loop activities, like military exercises or wargames, to evaluate the usability of the C2BMC component within the missile defense system
- Assist with systems engineering, event execution, testing, and analysis tasks as needed to validate high-quality UI products
- Prepare test objectives, review event execution, and analyze plans and procedures. Develop data collection plans and materials, and conduct testing of the C2BMC UI during system testing
- Experience in developing and implementing a Human Factors Engineering (HFE) program based on MIL-STD-46855A guidelines, with a focus on User Interface (UI)/User Experience (UX) design, software-related objectives, and user processes and procedures
- Understanding of Systems Engineering and Human Factors engineering practices, and their application in DoD acquisition programs
- Experience with UI development for military systems and the acquisition and integration of feedback from military operational users (warfighters) for application to system development
Other
- Ability and willingness to travel up to 30% internationally to support business needs are required
- Applicants must possess a current, active in-scope DoD-issued Secret security clearance at the time of application, which is required to start
- Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate technically across a broad spectrum of audiences, including high-level MDA, DoD, and National Team staff, as well as end users (Warfighters) and other C2BMC stakeholders
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications
- A Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Human Factors Engineering, Software Engineering, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or a related field from an accredited university is preferred, along with 8 years of experience; or a Master’s degree in a related field with 6 years of relevant work experience; or 12 years of relevant experience may be considered as an alternative to a degree
