Staff Systems Engineer - Air to Ground

About the role

Northrop Grumman Mission Systems has an opening for a Staff Systems Engineer (Air-to-Ground) to join our organization. Our organization within Northrop Grumman Mission Systems offers the opportunity to join a team to solve problems in the field and drive new solutions into next generation systems across a wide variety of platforms and environments. This position is based out of Linthicum, MD and will be 100% on-site.

Responsibilities

• Lead development of radar system architectures for air-to-ground missions, ensuring alignment with platform and mission needs (e.g., SAR, ISAR, GMTI/T, Targeting, Weather, Surface Return, Sea Surface Search, Ship Track, etc.).
• Define and partition system-level requirements, performance budgets, and interfaces across RF, processing, software, and platform teams.
• Direct and review trade studies on waveforms, antenna design, processing architectures, and CONOPS/mission scenarios.
• Lead radar performance modeling and simulation (end-to-end link budgets, coverage, detection/tracking performance, clutter and interference analysis).
• Guide development and evaluation of Air-to-Ground concepts and algorithms from a systems perspective.
• Make data-driven recommendations and decisions to optimize performance, cost, schedule, and technical risk.
• Define verification strategies and test architectures from lab through flight test for new and evolved radar capabilities.
• Oversee integration and test campaigns, including test planning, execution oversight, data analysis, and discrepancy resolution.
• Drive root cause investigations and corrective actions for complex system-level issues.
• Represent the radar system engineering team in technical reviews (SRR, PDR, CDR, TRR) and risk/issue boards.
• Interface directly with customers to present technical approaches, performance results, and roadmaps.
• Support business development, including capture strategy, concept development, and proposal technical volumes/BOEs.
• Mentor early- and mid-career engineers in radar systems engineering best practices.
• Promote rigorous engineering discipline, configuration control, and requirements traceability.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree with 12 years of experience, Master's degree with 10 years of experience or Ph.D. with 8 years of experience in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, or related technical fields; an additional 4 years of experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
• U.S Citizenship is required.
• A current/active U.S. Government Secret Clearance.
• Ability to obtain Special Program Access (SAP).
• Experience of Radar Air-to-Ground applications, including developing and applying models in MATLAB, Python, and/or C/C++.
• Experience leading systems engineering for radar or advanced RF sensor systems, including requirements, architecture, modeling, and integration/test.
• Understanding of air-to-ground radar modes and performance.
• Experience leading complex technical efforts and resolving system-level issues across hardware and software boundaries.
• Experience with radar modeling/analysis tools (MATLAB, Python, or equivalent), including end-to-end performance assessments.
• Strong communication and leadership skills, with experience presenting to senior leadership and customers.

Qualifications

• Advanced degree (MS or PhD) in a relevant STEM field with emphasis in radar, RF systems, or signal processing.
• Familiarity with MBSE approaches and tools to manage complex architectures and requirements.
• Experience shaping technology roadmaps and IRAD/CRAD efforts in radar or advanced sensors.

Skills

• Experience as a lead systems engineer or IPT lead on an airborne radar development or major upgrade program.
• Experience with radar modeling/analysis tools (MATLAB, Python, or equivalent), including end-to-end performance assessments.
• Strong communication and leadership skills, with experience presenting to senior leadership and customers.

Benefits

• Health Plan
• Savings Plan
• Paid Time Off
• Additional Benefits including Education Assistance, Training and Development, 9/80 Work Schedule (where available), and much more!

Pay

$169,000.00 - $253,600.00

Schedule

100% On-Site