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This position is currently contingent on program award and associated program award funding. Start dates are determined after funding confirmation.

Please note: Only external candidates and NG employees who are not currently in AS Engineering will be considered under this requisition.

Northrop Grumman’s Aeronautics Systems sector is seeking a Staff Data Displays and Controls (DDC) Architect Engineer to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals in defining the future.  This position will be located in Melbourne, FL.

The selected individual will perform as a leader within an interdisciplinary team to develop novel and innovative solutions to advanced technical problems. The successful DDC Architect will contribute to the overall development of Weapons Integration, including developing functional architectures, analyzing performance, developing and managing requirements and interfaces, and verifying/validating all allocated requirements. You will design, develop, build, DDC solutions in conjunction with key suppliers. 

The candidate will be responsible for:

• Support development and integration of piloted aircraft display and processing components  

• Lead and/or support development and integration throughout the product lifecycle of design, development, integration and test, flight test requirements verification, and sustainment. 

• Requirements development, analysis, maturation and implementation translating customer requirements into hardware and software specifications 

• Perform MBSE and capturing requirements, interfaces, behaviors, structures and parametrics 

• Perform flight and mission engineering activities to ensure continuity between desired operational capabilities and delivered system performance, through the Systems Engineering “V”.  

• Ensure performance capabilities of employed architectures and solutions are traded against cost and system requirements and assess operational effectiveness of existing and emerging systems and capabilities in representative operational environments. 

• Performing functional and performance analyses 

• Run detailed trade studies 

• Provide design assessments and perform verification checks 

• 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, test and deliveryt requirements including acceptance, qualification, and system integration, and support test execution. 

• Develop technical system integration and verification plans and track their progress 

• Solicit input from various stakeholders, synthesize data, and communicate results to various levels of leadership within the organization. 

• Performing risk analysis and developing mitigation plans and tracking to closure 

• Guide all activities in the System Engineering “V”, with MBSE Digital Engineering and Agile design methodology.  

• Lead and/or support technical discussions with the customer and having daily interaction with management, external personnel, customers, and various sub teams 

Basic Qualifications:

Staff Data Displays and Controls (DDC) Architect Engineer (T05):

• Must have a Bachelor’s degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) discipline from an accredited university AND 12 years of related professional/military experience in Engineering; OR a Master’s degree in a STEM discipline from an accredited university AND 10 years of related professional/military experience in Engineering; or a Ph.D. AND 8 years of related professional/military experience in Engineering.

• Your ability to transfer and maintain the final adjudicated government Secret clearance, and any program access(es) required for the position within a reasonable period of time, as determined by the company.

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

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

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

• Knowledge of system engineering design methods, including requirements analysis and flow-down, specification derivation and interface control documentation  

• Demonstrated problem-solving ability and data analysis experience 

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in model-based systems engineering using Cameo or similar SysML tools 

• Experience with Military Navigation and Navigation Aids 

• 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: Flight Management Systems (FMS), Primary Flight Displays (PFDs), Control Display Units (CDUs), Terrain Avoidance and Warning, Systems (TAWS), Crew Alerting System (CAS), Moving Maps, Embedded GPS/INS (EGI) Navigation Systems 

• Communication, Navigation, Surveillance/Air Traffic Management (CNS/ATM) experience 

• Performance Based Navigation (PBN) experience and attaining PBN certification 

• Experience designing to RTCA DO-178 software standard  

• Experience designing to RTCA DO-254 hardware standard  

• Experience designing to RTCA DO-200 standard  

• Experience designing to RTCA DO-160 and MIL-STD-810 standards  

• Experience with MIL-STD-1553, ARINC 429 and Ethernet communication protocols 

• Experience leading/guiding teams through product definition and implementation 

• Experience communicating with and presenting to senior leadership 

• Experience collaborating on large interdisciplinary teams 

• Experience in supplier/subcontract management 

• Experience in the development of real time embedded software  

• Familiarity with Atlassian collaboration tool set (Jira and Confluence) 

Northrop Grumman is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. 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. For our complete EEO/AA and Pay Transparency statement, please visit http://www.northropgrumman.com/EEO. U.S. Citizenship is required for most positions.