Principal Flight Avionics Responsible Engineer

Company: Northrop Grumman
Location: Melbourne
Posted on: September 2, 2024

Job Description:

Category: Engineering
- Shift: 1st Shift (United States of America)
- Travel Required: Yes, 10% of the Time
- Relocation Assistance: Relocation assistance may be available
- 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 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. Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems has an opening for a Principal Flight Avionics Responsible Engineer to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals. Integration of aircraft cockpit systems and components including Flight Management Computer (FMC), Primary Flight Displays (PFDs), Control Display Units (CDUs), Fight Navigation and Guidance systems, Position, Navigation, Timing (PNT) equipment and other various avionics systems with the capability to support trade studies..

- Requirements development, analysis, maturation and implementation

- Document designs using detailed schematics, diagrams and specifications

- Assist in the preparation and support of the verification of aircraft avionics and Prime Mission Equipment installations and aircraft certification documents.

- Provide support for the development of system safety documents.

- Technical management of program strategic partners and suppliers including development of supplier statement of work and requirements, review and analyze supplier design data, hardware/software acquisition, define functional test requirements including acceptance, qualification, and system integration, and support test execution.

- Informal and formal testing of subsystem requirements in lab, with the ability to troubleshoot hardware avionics equipment in a lab environment.

A successful Flight Avionics Engineer has good leadership skills and understands the scope of the work and the impact of the work on other teams, consistently brings up concerns, issues and risks to program and technical leadership and holds the team to a high level of technical rigor. Must have a Bachelor's degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) discipline from an accredited university AND 5 years of related professional/military experience in Engineering; OR a Master's degree in a (STEM) discipline from an accredited university AND 3 years of related professional/military experience in Engineering; STEM) AND 0 years of related professional/military experience in Engineering.

- Must have experience working with Military Subsystems or Avionics Systems Environmental Qualification (EQ).

- Must have an Active, In-Scope, DOD Secret Security Clearance or higher that has been granted / renewed within the past 6 years.

- Must have the ability to obtain and maintain DOD Top Secret Security Clearance.

- Experience in COTS / MIL-COTS hardware functional design and performance analysis

- Experience with design, development, and integration of flight deck equipment

An active Top Secret clearance

- Experience with trade studies, documenting subsystem architectures, analyzing performance, and evaluating Technology Readiness Level (TRL) with regard to supplier current and future products offerings

- Experience with integrating Military Navigation instrumentation on aircraft and interfacing with mission software

- Integration and/or Design experience with of one or more of the following avionics systems as applied to military aircraft: Experience with developing supplier documentation, performance based specifications, and statements of work

- Experience building supplier evaluation criteria and experience in conducting technical evaluations, documenting results and selection

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. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action 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.

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