Staff Engineer Systems - Technical Lead

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. Please note that this opportunity is contingent on program funding. Start dates are determined after funding confirmation. Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems has an opening for a Staff Engineer Systems - Technical Lead to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals within our Systems Engineering organization. This role is located in Melbourne, FL. In this role, the ideal candidate will have experience working with wireless communication systems, both commercial and military, as well as experience integrating and testing hardware/software solutions from a unit level, down to the microelectronics level, in a lab environment and as part of the field experiment. This role will involve working with multiple commercial partners to integrate the latest communications capabilities and designing a platform to support advanced battle management technologies. A successful Lead Engineer has good leadership skills and understands the scope of the work and the impact of the work on other teams, consistently brings up concerns, issues and risks to program and technical leadership and holds the team to a high level of technical rigor. Key Responsibilities: Establish technical baseline and execute change management to meet platform/payload specific experiment objectives. Establish and lead a regular rhythm with stakeholders to communicate overall technical approach and methodology for design, integration, hypothesis testing, data collection, and recommendations. Lead and present customer milestone reviews, including suppliers’ briefing, key performance requirements, architecture diagrams, solutions approach, etc. Interpret, allocate, tailor, write and/or flow down requirements to all levels of a Mesh Network architecture. Perform trade studies, document architectures/interfaces, analyze performance, and evaluate Technology Readiness Level (TRL) with regard to supplier current and future products offerings. Lead supplier evaluation criteria and experience in conducting technical evaluations, documenting results and solution recommendation for Customer. Execute supplier’s statement of work and documentation reviews and approval authority with respect to technical delivery.