Consulting Chief Engineer - Battle Management

About the role

Northrop Grumman’s Aeronautics Systems – Research & Advanced Design (R&AD) transforms breakthrough ideas into mission‑ready capabilities through intelligent anticipation. As the front‑end design engine, R&AD defines next‑generation aircraft, collaborative autonomous platforms, and advanced technologies in survivability, autonomy, and battle management. The Consulting Chief Engineer will join the Battle Management Operating Unit (OU) located in Redondo Beach, CA; El Segundo, CA; or Melbourne, FL, leading a multi‑disciplinary engineering team that executes R&D projects in Advanced Autonomy, Joint All‑Domain Command & Control (JADC2), and Battle Management Architecture, Systems, and Technologies (BAST) domains. Our leaders live our values daily: upholding the highest ethical standards, delivering on promises, operating as OneNG, and pioneering a vision that shapes the future.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the technical authority for the OU, providing technical direction and leadership to internally funded and contracted activities
• Serve as the focal point for definition and control of technical requirements, and ensure technical coordination and horizontal integration across projects
• Serve as the principal technical interface with the customer and company senior leadership
• Ensure that programs adhere to sound engineering principles and comply with relevant company policies, procedures, and quality standards
• Oversee and ensure technical performance measures are being met by the Engineering team within allocated cost and schedule resources
• Serve as the chairperson of the Technical Review Board (TRB)
• Support program managers in risk and opportunity management by identifying and owning risks associated with technical performance
• Provide technical leadership, direction and mentoring to technical contributors in the application of systems engineering principles, tools, and techniques to achieve practical end results

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science degree in a related STEM discipline and 16 years relevant professional/military experience; OR a Master of Science degree in a related STEM discipline and 14 years of relevant experience; OR a PhD in a related STEM discipline and 12 years of relevant experience
• Demonstrated professional experience related to air vehicle flight autonomy, mission autonomy, battle