Sentinel - Senior Staff Systems Engineer (T06) - 19317

About this role

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: Yes

CLEARANCE TYPE: Secret

TRAVEL: Yes, 10% of the Time Description

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.

Join Northrop Grumman on our continued mission to push the boundaries of possible across land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace. Enjoy a culture where your voice is valued and start contributing to our team of passionate professionals providing real-life solutions to our world’s biggest challenges. We take pride in creating purposeful work and allowing our employees to grow and achieve their goals every day by Defining Possible. With our competitive pay and comprehensive benefits, we have the right opportunities to fit your life and launch your career today.

Northrop Grumman Defense Systems is seeking an On Target Effectiveness (OTE) Thread Lead – Senior Staff Systems Engineer (T06) to join the Sentinel Systems Engineering team in Roy, UT . The OTE Thread Lead owns the On Target Effectiveness thread for the Sentinel Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) program. The OTE thread focuses on the system level range, payload, and accuracy capabilities of the Sentinel weapon system, ensuring mission level effectiveness objectives are met across the full operational envelope. This role offers a clear path to senior technical leadership within the Sentinel program. This highly visible role works directly with the U.S. Air Force and with engineering and test teams across the Sentinel enterprise. The incumbent serves as the delegated technical owner for the OTE thread and its technical baseline, working in close collaboration with Systems Engineering, Integration & Test (SEIT) leadership and the Office of the Chief Engineer (OCE).

Key Responsibilities:

As the OTE Thread Lead, you will: • Technical ownership & stakeholder coordination

• Serve as the subject matter expert and primary technical point of contact for the On Target Effectiveness thread.

• Take end to end ownership of the OTE thread’s requirements, architecture, analysis, and verification baseline, ensuring consistency, traceability, and technical integrity while remaining open to challenge and alternative viewpoints.

• Collaborate with SEIT leadership and the OCE to propose and implement changes to the OTE baseline within the overall program technical framework.

• Engage regularly with OCE, U.S. Air Force counterparts, the Thread Lead Manager (TLM), and other thread leads to share status, resolve issues, and align technical direction and staffing

• Systems engineering leadership

• Lead and direct requirements analysis and decomposition for OTE, from weapon system level requirements through segment and lower level specifications, including allocation of performance budgets for range, payload, and accuracy.

• Guide and approve OTE related architectures and interfaces, ensuring error and performance budgets are correctly allocated across segments and support system level effectiveness.

• Oversee the development and use of mission level functional flows and scenarios to assess on target performance and mission success.

• Lead cross discipline trade studies that balance cost, schedule, risk, and mission effectiveness, and present clear, data driven recommendations to program leadership and the OCE

• Verification, validation, integration & test

• Define the verification strategy and success criteria for OTE related requirements, including appropriate use of analysis, test, inspection, and demonstration.

• Review and approve OTE related verification plans and reports, ensuring traceability from requirements to verification methods, test configurations, and results.

• Provide technical direction to integration and test teams on the events, configurations, and data needed to substantiate OTE performance.

• Maintain thread level insight into verification results and open items through requirement sell off and program reviews

• Risk, performance, integration, and mentoring

• Support risk, opportunity, and performance management for the OTE thread

• Identify and document OTE related risks, issues, and opportunities, and provide the OTE technical input into the program RIO process for identification, prioritization, and mitigation/execution planning, with clear linkage to OTE requirements and performance budgets.

• Define and maintain Technical Performance Measures (TPMs) relevant to on target effectiveness (e.g., accuracy, range, payload, reliability/availability), including thresholds and margins, and lead TPM assessments and return to green actions when performance margins or trends indicate elevated risk.

• Drive integration and represent OTE at reviews

• Organize and lead coordination sessions to maintain horizontal and vertical integration of OTE content across segments and disciplines.

• Serve as the buyer for OTE related content at segment level design reviews (e.g., CDRs) and the seller at program level reviews (e.g., SRR, CDR and other milestones).

• Provide clear, technically grounded briefings that articulate OTE drivers, assumptions, margins, and risk posture.

• Demonstrate strong executive presence in interactions with senior Northrop Grumman and U.S. Air Force leadersh

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