Senior Principal Optical Engineer IV (GPI)

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 Space Systems is looking for a Senior Principal Optical Engineer to support the Launch Vehicles organization in Chandler, Arizona. The Sr. Principal Optical Engineer, will be part of the Seeker IPT, you will utilize your expertise to coordinate multi-disciplinary team efforts to ensure integration and performance at the seeker level and higher systems. The team is responsible for the development of the design, integration and testing of development and flight hardware, evaluation of performance as it pertains to the algorithms, supporting the development of the seeker test suite, and ensuring representative physics-based models to support algorithm development and 6 DoF. The selected candidate should thrive in a fast-paced work environment with significantly diverse assignments and collaborative/team settings across all levels. Responsibilities: Coordinate the efforts between multi-disciplinary teams to ensure an integrated seeker system solution. Decompose requirements from performance basis, identify appropriate verification methodology, and evaluate performance of concept and detailed design. Interfacing with the customer to provide technical status updates on activities such as design efforts, integration status, maturation plans and procedures, and testing results Overseeing error budgets pertaining to the seeker solution and the ability to support modeling that is used to inform either requirements or design sources of error Develop seeker hardware, optical system research and development, data analysis, and evaluation of algorithm development as it pertains to the hardware Overseeing vendor development activities and ensure deliverable timeframes are met Develop and maintain a strong technical understanding of seeker systems to aid in identification and troubleshooting of potential issues and ensuring all requirements flowed from the customer’s statement of scope are addressed