Jobs at Northrop Grumman

Manage contract proposal preparation, negotiation, administration, and customer interactions to ensure contract compliance. Monitor obligations, prepare change requests, assess terms/risks, enter contract data into systems, and collaborate with technical, finance, supply chain, and security teams to support program execution.

Develop, verify, and validate 6-DOF missile flight simulators and GN&C algorithms. Implement software tools, conduct system performance assessments, perform model verification/validation, and analyze flight-test GN&C system accuracy.

Lead and oversee engineering test operations for spacecraft hardware, managing test requirements, schedules, technicians, and cross-discipline coordination. Ensure procedures, safety, and quality during assembly, integration, and test; develop resolutions with Test and Quality Engineering and support offsite mission milestones.

Lead end-to-end business development and capture strategies for intelligence and sensing surveillance programs. Identify and cultivate opportunities, develop capture and contact plans, assess customer needs and competition, create affordable offering concepts, maintain technology roadmaps and pipeline, and support proposal and executive briefings to win new and expand existing business.

Lead technical authority for IMU/IRU system architecture and integration. Develop and execute OU investment strategy and roadmaps, define/validate high-performance hardware and algorithms, assess technical proposals and risks, support business development, mentor systems engineers, ensure design review integrity and adherence to engineering processes, and promote reusable technical assets and continuous improvement across programs.

Coordinate production and WIP priorities with Manufacturing and support teams to meet contractual schedules. Perform SAP and MES transactions to release, receive, close, and issue work orders. Investigate and resolve inventory discrepancies, determine shortages, obtain ECDs, estimate production rates, and move large tooling using powered industrial trucks. Support B-shift (weekday nights) in-office at El Segundo, CA; must lift up to 30 lbs and obtain required equipment licenses and DOD Secret clearance.

Design, implement, and maintain high-availability campus and enterprise networks. Deploy and commission Cisco core equipment, coordinate cabling, provide Tier 2/3 WAN/LAN/SD‑WAN troubleshooting, enforce network security policies per NIST, liaise with vendors, produce design packages, execute upgrades and maintain CMDB documentation, and mentor junior engineers.

Lead all phases of defense aerospace programs, managing cost, schedule, technical performance and cross-functional teams to meet contractual requirements. Coordinate with customers and stakeholders (DCMA, JPO, Lockheed), drive risk mitigation, schedule recovery, supplier management, and production integration across multiple sites to deliver F-35 production commitments.

Design, implement, and maintain Cisco unified communications and VoIP systems (CUCM, CUBE, UCCX, VTC). Develop dial plans, configure SIP trunking, monitor/optimize voice/video quality, perform upgrades/patches, provide third-level troubleshooting, documentation, training, and support complex deployments. Collaborate cross-functionally and meet SLA requirements; onsite work and occasional after-hours support required.

Lead configuration management for F-35 composite structure IPT: maintain CM documentation, execute engineering releases (BTP/SCD/Tech packages), ensure integrated EBOMs in TeamCenter, support audits and change coordination across engineering, manufacturing, quality, and suppliers.

Develop and coordinate integrated master plans and schedules, ensure cross-functional schedule integration, track progress using EVM and other techniques, perform risk and critical-path analysis, identify and resolve logic conflicts, and support program leadership to meet business management objectives.

Manage design, development, verification, and production transition of digital devices (FPGA/SoC/ASIC). Oversee technical proposals, cost/schedule/technical performance, PLM processes, and mentor engineers while handling manager responsibilities and program staffing.

Lead an Integrated Product Team and serve as Cost Account Manager for inertial navigation system development. Oversee engineering design, integration, test, cost/schedule performance, risk management, staffing, and stakeholder reporting to meet contract requirements.

Design, build, integrate, test, install, and maintain rack-based communications hardware and cabling in lab and field environments. Perform electrical signal and power analysis, create engineering drawings and BOMs, specify cabling and cooling, develop and execute system verification, troubleshoot complex issues, support lab/site integration and maintenance, and present status to stakeholders.

Lead export/import compliance for the F-35 program: manage authorizations, licenses, technology release determinations, and regulatory recordkeeping. Conduct gate reviews for technical data, foreign travel/visits, and shipments; support audits and assessments; liaise with government agencies, internal stakeholders, auditors, and legal counsel to ensure ITAR/EAR and other US regulation compliance.

Adapt mobile control station applications to a cloud environment, build Infrastructure-as-Code and deployment pipelines for an IL-5 cloud, containerize services, integrate instrumentation and security, and perform system testing. Collaborate with software, systems, cloud, and DevOps teams in an Agile environment. Role may be filled at Engineer or Principal Engineer level depending on experience.

Serve as Product Owner for a software team supporting government space programs: own roadmap, prioritize multi-stakeholder needs, manage CAM/budget/staffing, refine backlog, drive sprint/release delivery, participate in PI planning, brief leadership/customers, and escalate/remove impediments. Requires security clearance and occasional travel.

Adapt a suite of mobile control station applications to a cloud environment by building Infrastructure-as-Code, containerization, instrumentation, integration, security, and system test. Collaborate with software, systems, DevOps, and cloud teams in an Agile environment to deploy solutions to an IL-5 cloud, support cloud adoption and migration, and lead technical efforts.

Lead technical oversight of Aerojet supplier efforts, align supplier activities to program technical baseline, review and approve subcontract deliverables, develop statements of work, support RFI/RFP technical content and evaluations, manage technical risks, track performance metrics, and travel up to 50% to interface with stakeholders and suppliers.

Lead engineering for R&AD, managing Chief Engineers and System Architects across multiple directorates. Drive definition, development, verification, staffing, processes, and tools for rapid, affordable prototype and program execution while ensuring technical reviews, safety, airworthiness, and customer engagement.