Sr Principal Engineer Systems - Anti-Tamper Systems/HW Engineer (24-496)

Northrop Grumman - Huntsville, AL

Full-time - Senior

Huntsville, AL

Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing

About the position

The Sr Principal Engineer Systems - Anti-Tamper Systems/HW Engineer role at Northrop Grumman involves working on the Command and Control, Battle Management, and Communications (C2BMC) program, which integrates the Missile Defense System. This position requires collaboration with a multi-disciplinary team to analyze high-level needs and develop solutions that ensure the security and effectiveness of missile defense operations. The successful candidate will be responsible for developing and maintaining various Anti-Tamper plans and assessments, ensuring compliance with program protection requirements, and supporting milestone reviews.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate with Missile Defense Agency (MDA) Anti-tamper (AT) and C2BMC leadership on updates and changes to the C2BMC system
• Perform Anti-Tamper Risk and Threat Management Assessments and reports for the C2BMC program
• Develop the analysis process, prepare the AT plan, and provide coordination and input for near-term fielding decisions
• Develop, deliver, and maintain the C2BMC AT Plan, C2BMC AT Evaluation Plan, C2BMC Key Management Plan, and the C2BMC Program Protection Plan
• Develop, deliver, and maintain Critical Program Information (CPI) analysis, Defense Exportability Assessments, and defense export strategy
• Develop, deliver, and maintain waivers for CPI, AT, or defense exportability features
• Assess program Anti-Tamper designs and implementation plans in support of verification and validation efforts
• Develop and deliver recommendations to improve program protection while meeting cost, schedule, and performance objectives
• Identify risk-based technical countermeasures for the protection of C2BMC Critical Program Information and Critical Components
• Brief Anti-Tamper and Program Protection requirements and prepare white papers and evaluations as required
• Support program milestone reviews and Fielding Decisions and verify entrance criteria are satisfied by approving the Anti-Tamper and Program Protection products
• Interact with customers to define SSE requirements, solutions, trades, costs, implementation, system impacts, and effectiveness
• Support developing plans and estimates, task execution, project tracking, reporting, and risk identification and mitigation plans
• Keep senior management informed on significant accomplishments, issues, and concerns.

Requirements

• An active Secret clearance is required to start
• Bachelor's degree in STEM discipline in Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics or related field with 8 years experience or Master's degree in STEM discipline in Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics or related field with 6 years experience
• DoD 8140 certification at IAT Level II or higher (Security+, GSEC, SCNP, SSCP, CISSP, CISA, GSE, SCNA) is required to start
• Substantial understanding of system design and development, service-oriented architecture development principles, and implementation and continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD)
• Experience designing and implementing Anti-Tamper (AT) and Defense Exportability Features (DEF) solutions
• Ability to engineer complex systems to ensure separation of concerns
• Ability to factor confidentiality, integrity, and availability considerations in all phases of the system development lifecycle
• Ability to understand and decompose requirements to support hardware components' implementation, verification, and validation testing
• Ability to generate detailed, repeatable, automated test procedures
• Ability to extract data to support analysis requirements
• Ability to generate procedures that test functionality
• Ability to apply Agile and Lean Product Development principles as well as training others through a DevOps-type environment
• Experience with Git, JIRA, Confluence, and other open-source development tools
• Experience working in an integrated team environment with other systems, software, and specialty engineers to develop solutions.

Benefits

• Health Plan
• Savings Plan
• Paid Time Off