Essential Functions:

• Performing thermal analysis, design, or test of one or more moderately complex or portions of complex materials, structural components, and functional systems of company products.

• Analyzing requirements for materials, structural component, or functional systems.

• Selecting applicable analytical data from previous products and determine the technical principles involved.

• Mathematically defining problems and compute the engineering characteristics consistent with the specifications, design needs and requirements of other portions of the products.

• Releasing results as “technical documents” after review by the senior members of the team.

• Developing innovative solutions and elaborating on design concepts.

• Evaluating completed designs with supervisor and other technical groups, and making modifications necessary to achieve the most ideal design.

• Developing, coordinating, and conducting test programs required to evaluate design work.

This requisition may be filled at a higher grade based on qualifications listed below.

Basic Qualifications:

This requisition may be filed at either a Principal Mechanical/Thermal Engineer level 3 or a Sr. Principal Mechanical/Thermal Engineer 4.

Basic Qualifications - Principal Mechanical/Thermal Engineer 3:

• Bachelor’s degree in STEM - Science, Technology, Engineer, Math or related area (Mechanical Engineering or Degrees with a focus Thermal/Heat Transfer Analysis highly preferred) and 5+ years of experience; Master’s Degree and 3+ years; OR PhD with 0 years of experience.

• U.S. Citizenship with the ability to obtain a Top Secret security clearance.

• Experience with thermal engineering tasks associated with analysis, design, and/or testing of structures.

• Experience with at least one of the following Thermal Analysis tools such as Thermal Desktop, SINDA or equivalent spacecraft thermal analysis tools.

Basic Qualifications - Sr. Principal Mechanical/Thermal Engineer 4:

• Bachelor’s degree in STEM - Science, Technology, Engineer, Math or related area (Mechanical Engineering or Degrees with a focus Thermal/Heat Transfer Analysis highly preferred) and 9+ years of experience; Master’s Degree and 7+ years; OR PhD with 4years of experience.

• U.S. Citizenship with the ability to obtain a Top Secret security clearance.

• Experience with thermal engineering tasks associated with analysis, design, and/or testing of structures.

• Experience with at least one of the following Thermal Analysis tools such as Thermal Desktop, SINDA or equivalent spacecraft thermal analysis tools.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Current or Active Secret, Top Secret or higher level clearance.

• Experience with spacecraft or subsystem thermal testing.

• Experience utilizing MATLAB Northrop Grumman is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce.