Northrop Grumman Space Systems—Launch and Missile Defense Systems needs a Sr Principal Engineer Systems Test – X-Lab Test Director to support the Command and Control, Battle Management, and Communications (C2BMC) program, which is a crucial part of the Missile Defense System. The role is vital in supporting the U.S. President, Secretary of Defense, and combatant commanders at strategic, regional, and operational levels.
Requirements
- Must possess extensive experience in software testing, engineering, or integration
- Must understand systems engineering, systems design, and development
- Possess at least 8 years of experience in a similar environment, with strong knowledge and expertise in systems-of-systems definition and integration
- Ability to analyze high-level needs and, through a structured and logical approach, refine the need into an integrated set of requirements that leads to a fielded product
- Ability to lead parts of the project and manage the work of other engineers
- Experience in planning and managing flight, ground test, and Warfighter events
- Experience operating C2BMC, knowledge of the system configuration, understanding system operation, navigating display screens, and the concept of system functions
Responsibilities
- Serve as a Test Director in the Experimentation Lab
- Integrating X-Lab prototypes into an MDA test, coordinating project leads, understanding the prototype's role in the test, mapping the configuration within an architecture, providing briefings on status, and executing the test from the X-Lab
- Managing the configuration and control of test resources, articles, and tools used for data collection during the event
- Configuring a set of lab machines dedicated to specific development tasks
- Serve as the liaison to other C2BMC test participants and MDA/BCT test managers
- Coordinate with the project leads of different experiments to ensure smooth event execution throughout the entire mission
- Develop and maintain the test architecture that includes all articles under test, and also create any supplemental procedures needed to ensure successful execution
Other
- Serve as a Test Director in the Experimentation Lab
- Collaborate with the customer to understand the test requirements and identify ways to meet those needs within resource limits
- Communicate clearly and present technical approaches and findings
- Capable of writing and executing engineering plans within a project
- Non-standard work hours are highly likely during event execution
