Northrop Grumman 2022 Fall Internships – Sr. Principal Systems Engineer In Manhattan Beach

Job 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.

Job Responsibilities:

• Develops, integrates, and uses advanced graphical user interfaces and visualization tools.
• Key aspects include organization and self-drive to gather required information, work with stakeholders, and provide analyses and presentations.
• Develops new and/or integrates existing system simulation frameworks, performance models and algorithms, threat models, and command and control models.
• Ensures performance capabilities of new systems and architectures are traded against cost and mission requirements; develops mission relevant scenarios; assesses operational effectiveness of existing and emerging systems and capabilities in representative operational environments.
• Performs mission engineering activities to ensure continuity between desired operational capabilities and delivered system performance, through the Systems
• Engineering “V”.
• Develops and adapts existing models, methods, and simulations to support the design, development, and sustainment of system design concepts and technologies.
• Simulates real-time operations and develops software that represent projected behavior of systems.
• This position requires practical experience and interpretation of modeling and simulation results, algorithms, and formulas and must be able to communicate their significance and relevancy in a clear, detailed manner.
• Models operational environments, performs trade studies via computer simulation and recommends alternative architectures.
• Incorporates AI/ML techniques in Modeling and Simulation frameworks .
• Performs operational analysis and mission effectiveness analysis.
• Communicates findings and recommendations clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Performs trade studies and simulation analyses with the objective of enhancing and optimizing system performance capabilities.

Job Requirements/Qualifications:

• Must have the ability to obtain and maintain Special Access Program (SAP) clearance
• Active DoD Secret clearance (with a background investigation within the past 6 years or enrolled into Continuous Evaluation)
• Bachelor’s Degree and 9 years of professional/military experience with a background in at least one programming language OR Master’s Degree and 7 years of professional/military experience with a background in at least one programming language OR Ph.D and 4 years of professional/military experience with a background in at least one programming language