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RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be availableCLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: YesCLEARANCE TYPE: SecretTRAVEL: Yes, 10% of the Time

Description

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 pioneering and inventive spirit has enabled us to be at the forefront of many technological advancements in our nation's history - from the first flight across the Atlantic Ocean, to stealth bombers, to landing on the moon. We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage and a pioneering spirit to join forces to invent the future, and have fun along the way. 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. Our employees are not only part of history, they're making history.

Northrop Grumman Mission Systems is a trusted provider of mission-enabling solutions for global security.  Our Engineering and Sciences (E&S) organization pushes the boundaries of innovation, redefines engineering capabilities, and drives advances in various sciences. Our team is chartered with providing the skills, innovative technologies to develop, design, produce and sustain optimized product lines across the sector while providing a decisive advantage to the warfighter.  Come be a part of our mission!

Northrop Grumman Mission Systems' Engineering & Science (E&S) Baltimore and Partnered Sites (BaPs) division is seeking a Sr Staff Chief Engineer to join our team of qualified and diverse individuals. The selected candidate will serve as a Chief Engineer on a development program within the Secure Processing Operating Unit organization.  This position is full-time on-site at our Linthicum Heights, MD location.

What You'll Get To Do:

The Chief Engineer will have definitive technical authority for all aspects of engineering (hardware, software, systems, integration, and test), including subcontracted elements, and will lead a multi-disciplined engineering team to manage the program’s technical performance while meeting cost and schedule requirements. Additionally, the Chief Engineer will serve as the technical point of contact to the customer, representing engineering in meetings, addressing technical inquiries, and translating customer needs into actionable deliverables.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Provide technical authority and oversight for the entire development program, establishing engineering strategy, standards, and best practices.
• Establish and enforce technical rigor through the entire development program.
• Define and own the program’s technical vision, architecture, and roadmap, aligning them with OU Director, Program Directors, and Engineering organization.
• Partner with OU Director, Program Directors, and Engineering organization leaders to oversee Engineering execution, strategy, and decision making across the portfolio of programs
• Act as the technical Point of Contact (POC) to the customer, representing engineering in meetings, addressing technical inquiries, and translating customer needs into actionable deliverables.
• Serve as the technical authority for engineering risks and opportunities, maintaining a risk register, driving mitigation plans, and capitalizing on technical innovations.
• Oversee technical content for system design reviews, ensuring product and subsystem designs are robust, compliant, and ready for integration and verification.
• Lead and mentor a multi-disciplinary engineering organization (systems, hardware, software, integration), fostering collaboration and high performance.
• Interface with functional departments as needed to secure team staffing.

Basic Qualifications:   

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or STEM-related discipline with 14 or more years of experience, or 12 years with a Master's Degree and 10 years of experience with a Ph.D.  An additional 4 years of experience can be considered in lieu of degree.
• A current/active U.S. Government Secret Clearance.
• Ability to obtain Special Program Access (SAP) prior to starting.
• ≥ 8 years of progressive engineering leadership, with ≥ 4 years in a Chief Engineer or equivalent role on complex, multi-year development programs (i.e., aerospace, defense).
• Demonstrated ability to act as the technical point of contact to Executive leadership and/or Customers stakeholder addressing technical requests and translating into actionable deliveries.
• Demonstrated success leading high performance, cross-functional technical teams.
• Experience in systems, hardware, and/or software engineering for architecture, design, integration, verification/validation, production, and/or post-production support in a military/aerospace product environment.
• Demonstrated good communication skills, strong interpersonal skills, and good oral and written presentation skills
• Ability to work onsite in Linthicum, MD

Preferred Qualifications:   

• Advanced degrees in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics or other related technical fields.
• Active DoD Top Secret Clearance or higher.
• Experience as an Integrated Product Team (IPT) Lead, Technical lead, or other leadership role in a program office or business function with demonstrated team building, organizational, and interpersonal skills.
• Experience as a Control Account Manager (CAM) managing Earned Value Management System (EVMS) projects.
• Hands on experience designing high performance processing subsystems, including data paths, memory hierarchies, and I/O interfaces.
• Familiarity with modern processor architectures, pipeline design, cache coherence, multiprocessing, and hardware acceleration techniques.
• Experience designing secure processing architectures (hardware-based encryption, trusted execution environments, side channel mitigation, secure boot) and evaluating security tradeoffs alongside performance, power, and cost.
• Experience with Radio Frequency (RF) and Electromagnetic concepts and principles.

This role is contingent upon transfer of active/current U.S. Government Secret Clearance and ability to obtain a Special Program Access (SAP) prior to start, and program funding availability.

Primary Level Salary Range: $184,100.00 - $276,100.00The above salary range represents a general guideline; however, Northrop Grumman considers a number of factors when determining base salary offers such as the scope and responsibilities of the position and the candidate's experience, education, skills and current market conditions.Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay. Annual bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions as well as allow employees to share in company results. Employees in Vice President or Director positions may be eligible for Long Term Incentives. 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. However, this timeline may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates.Northrop Grumman is an Equal Opportunity 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 and pay transparency statement, please visit http://www.northropgrumman.com/EEO. U.S. Citizenship is required for all positions with a government clearance and certain other restricted positions.