Sentinel Design Engineer/Principal Design Engineer - 16874

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available\n\nCLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: Yes\n\nCLEARANCE TYPE: Secret\n\nTRAVEL: Yes, 10% of the Time\n\n## Description\n\nAt Northrop Grumman, our employees have incredible opportunities to work on revolutionary systems that impact people\u0027s 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\u0027s 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 \u2014 and we have an insatiable drive to do what others think is impossible. Our employees are not only part of history, they\u0027re making history.\n\nThis position will join the Sentinel Program\u0027s Command and Control (C2) Hardware Engineering team. This position will support a team of Hardware, Electrical, and Mechanical responsible engineers in the design of a diverse set of custom and commercial-off-the-shelf systems and components.\n\nResponsibilities will include a mix of the following dependent on priorities and skillset:\n\n * Incorporates edits and redlines to existing designs\n * Facilitates ingest of supplier drawings into the Sentinel program toolset and workflow.\n * Develops basic data and makes preliminary layouts, sketches, and notes necessary to present design proposal.\n * Investigates pertinent design factors such as ease of manufacture, availability of materials and equipment, interchangeability, replace ability, strength-weight efficiency, and contractual specification requirements and cost.\n * Coordinates with other organizations affected by design development.\n * Makes layouts of complex assemblies and details parts of devices, mechanisms, and structures.\n * Checks completed layouts and drawings for clarity, completeness, conformity to standards, procedures, specifications, and accuracy of calculations and dimensioning.\n * Identifies design errors, omissions, and other deficiencies, and recommends revisions and/or improvements in design layout to responsible engineers or designers.\n\n\n\nThis position can be filled as a Design Engineer (level 2) or a Principal Design Engineer (level 3) depending on candidate experience and qualifications.\n\nBasic Qualifications:\n\n * Bachelor\u0027s degree. (In lieu of formal degree - an additional 4 years of relevant experience may be considered)\n * Minimum of 2 years of relevant experience (level 2) or 5 years of relevant experience (level 3)\n * U.S. citizen\n * Active Secret clearance at time of application, current and within scope\n * Ability to obtain and maintain Special Access Program (SAP) approval within a reasonable period of time, as determined by the company to meet its business need\n * Must have at least 1 year of experience in generating 3-dimentional CAD models of components and assemblies using tools such as Siemens NX.\n * Must have familiarity with the application of industry standards for mechanical modeling and engineering release such as ASME Y14.24\n\n\n\nPreferred Qualifications:\n\n * At least 1 year of experience generating and releasing engineering artifacts into Product Lifecycle Management systems such as Siemens Teamcenter\n * Previous Sentinel experience\n * Existing SAP approval\n * Previous Department of Defense program experience in identifying and applying hardware design requirements from interface, compliance, and performance documents\n * Previous experience with Northrop Grumman hardware/mechanical design processes and principles, such as E110P and E275M\n\n\n\nPrimary Level Salary Range: $72,100.00 - $108,100.00\n\nSecondary Level Salary Range: $89,400.00 - $134,200.00\n\nThe above salary range represents a general guideline; however, Northrop Grumman considers a number of factors when determining base salary offers such as the scope and responsibilities of the position and the candidate\u0027s experience, education, skills and current market conditions.\n\nDepending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay. Annual bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions as well as allow employees to share in company results. Employees in Vice President or Director positions may be eligible for Long Term Incentives. In addition, Northrop Grumman provides a variety of benefits including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, savings plan, Company paid holidays and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business.\n\nThe application period for the job is estimated to be 20 days from the job posting date. However, this timeline may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates.\n\nNorthrop Grumman is an Equal Opportunity Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class. For our complete EEO and pay transparency statement, please visit http://www.northropgrumman.com/EEO. U.S. Citizenship is required for all positions with a government clearance and certain other restricted positions.\n