2027 Associate Systems Engineer, San Diego CA

About the Role

Northrop Grumman Mission Systems is seeking Associate Systems Engineers to join their Mission Systems Sector in San Diego, CA. This role is within the Navigation Intelligence & Connectivity Division, specifically supporting Communication/Network Solutions Business Units that create next-generation communications and signal processing systems.

Key Responsibilities

• Working within a multi-discipline team (Hardware, Software, Cyber, Systems) to ensure the overall design and implementation of network and communication systems.
• Taking responsibility for a sub-system or feature, which may include algorithm development, digital modeling, or hands-on integration and test in a laboratory environment.
• Supporting technical planning, system integration, verification and validation, cost and risk, and supportability and effectiveness analyses for total systems.
• Ensuring the logical and systematic conversion of customer or product requirements into total systems solutions, acknowledging technical, schedule, and cost constraints.
• Performing functional analysis, timeline analysis, detailed trade studies, requirements allocation, and interface definition studies to translate customer requirements into hardware and software specifications.
• Applying Systems, RF, Comms, and/or Network Modeling experience to cutting-edge pursuits.
• Participating in architecture definition and complex system problem-solving in support of advanced software-defined multifunction mission systems.
• Creating innovative concepts of operation and employment of advanced mission system solutions.
• Developing detailed design requirements suitable for efficient hardware/software/firmware implementation and network deployment.
• Working with a strong work ethic and the ability to work in an integrated product team (IPT) environment.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, or Math) degree
• U.S. citizenship (pre-requisite for obtaining a U.S. Government security clearance)
• Ability to obtain a U.S. Government security clearance
• Ability to obtain Special Access Program clearance within a reasonable period of time.
• Travel: Yes, 10% of the Time.

Qualifications

• Completing or has completed a Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution.
• Majoring in or has majored in a STEM degree.
• Overall cumulative GPA of 3.70/4.0 or higher (Preferred).
• Previous internship/co-op or other work experience, leadership & teamwork capabilities, interpersonal communication skills, and activities (Preferred).
• Experience in an autonomous work environment on complex projects (Preferred).
• Experience on business or engineering full life-cycle projects from inception through launch (Preferred).
• Experience in developing and delivering presentations and leading small groups (Preferred).
• Experience with emerging technologies (Preferred).
• High proficiency with tools required for communication system and network modeling and simulation (Preferred).
• Agile development experience, including use of Atlassian products (Preferred).
• Background in digital communications theory and commercial and military wireless networking technologies (Preferred).
• Development of communication waveform processing techniques and architectures (Preferred).
• Demonstrated depth and breadth in the physical through application layers and how these partitioned capabilities accomplish required missions (Preferred).
• Demonstrated skills in bridging the gap between theoretical and practical, and performing associated trade-off analysis (Preferred).
• Model Based System Engineering experience, especially using Cameo (Preferred).
• Experience with Linux & Windows system administration (Preferred).
• Experience with Risk Management Framework (NIST SP 800-53) and/or Committee for National Security Systems Instruction (CNSSI 1253) (Preferred).
• Current DoD 8570/8140 IA Certification (Security+CE or similar) OR ability to obtain and maintain within 6 months of start date (Preferred).
• Knowledge and/or experience in one or more of the following: AD/DNS, Patch Management, PKI, HBSS, ACAS, VMware products, Splunk (Preferred).