Principal Systems Engineer / Sr. Principal Systems Engineer - Reliability

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. This position is currently contingent on program award and associated program award funding. Start dates are determined after funding confirmation. Only external candidates and NG employees who are not currently in AS Engineering will be considered under this requisition. Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems has an opening for a Principal Systems Engineer / Sr. Principal Systems Engineer - Reliability to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals. This position will be located onsite in Melbourne, FL. You will be assigned work in the Product Support organization performing System Reliability & Maintainability (R&M) Engineering Analysis. Candidate will be responsible for establishing, monitoring, and verifying subsystem R&M performance requirements for all design changes and new development efforts to ensure that R&M program requirements are achieved. The primary responsibility of the position will be reliability, maintainability, and testability. Essential Functions: Perform R&M allocations and predictions, Develop Failure Modes Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMECA) analysis, Perform Built In Test (BIT) testability analysis, Develop mission reliability analysis, Support the development of teams in the investigation of issues, Familiarity with Fault Tree Analysis (FTA), Experience with Failure Reporting Analysis and Corrective Action System (FRACAS), Experience with maintainability demonstrations, Experience with Highly Accelerated Life Testing (HALT), Reliability Growth Testing (RGT), and Environmental Stress Screening (ESS), Liaison with Integrated Product Teams (IPT) and suppliers for the R&M of assigned subsystems. You should thrive in a fast-paced work environment with high expectations, significantly diverse assignments, collaborative/team settings across all levels. You must be able to collaborate closely with system engineers, hardware designers, and integration/test engineers. The engineer may develop, coordinate and conduct technical reliability studies and evaluations of engineering design concepts and design of experiments (DOE) constructs. Recommend design or test methods and statistical process control procedures for achieving required levels of product reliability. Compile and analyze performance reports and process control statistics; investigate and analyze relevant variables potentially affecting product and processes. Ensure that corrective measures meet acceptable reliability standards. Analyze preliminary plans and develop reliability engineering programs to achieve company, customer and governmental agency reliability objectives. May develop mathematical models to identify units, batches or processes posing excessive failure risks. As necessary, propose changes in design or formulation to improve system and/or process reliability. May determine units and/or batches requiring environmental testing and specify minimum number of samples to obtain statistically valid data. These roles may be filled by a Principal Engineer or Sr. Principal Engineer Level.