[Hiring] Manager Innovation Engineering 3 @Northrop Grumman

Role 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.

The Manager Innovation Engineering 3 role connects complex operational challenges with advanced engineering capabilities to identify unmet mission needs, collaboratively develop innovative technical solutions, and accelerate delivery of mission-relevant capabilities.

• Lead collaborative technical discussions with customers and engineering teams.
• Translate operational needs into viable technical concepts, architectures, and engineering approaches.
• Guide solutions from concept exploration through prototyping and transition to execution.
• Build trusted relationships with government customers, military operators, and technical stakeholders.
• Identify emerging and unmet operational needs and integrate user feedback into engineering decisions.
• Establish and lead a high-performing mission integration and solution engineering capability.
• Develop effective technical practices and foster cross-functional collaboration.
• Identify opportunities to apply emerging technologies and modern engineering practices to mission challenges.
• Partner across program and engineering organizations to connect customer needs with technical capabilities.

Qualifications

• Active DoD Secret clearance.
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Systems Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Minimum 8 years relevant experience with progressively responsible technical and/or engineering leadership experience.
• Demonstrated success developing technical solutions for complex systems or mission-critical applications.
• Broad technical expertise in systems engineering, software-intensive systems, solution architecture, system integration or related disciplines.
• Proven ability to engage senior technical customers and collaboratively develop credible engineering solutions.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary technical teams or cross-functional development efforts.
• Strong technical communications and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to travel up to 75%.

Requirements

• Advanced technical degree or equivalent depth of relevant experience (preferred).
• Experience leading customer-facing solution engineering, mission engineering, or advanced technical integration capabilities (preferred).
• Military operational experience or familiarity with operational experimentation (preferred).
• Experience with rapid prototyping, iterative engineering, agile development, and emerging technology integration (preferred).
• Knowledge of AI-enabled systems and advanced software architectures relevant to defense applications (preferred).

Benefits

• Health insurance coverage.
• Life and disability insurance.
• Savings plan.
• Company paid holidays.
• Paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business.

Company Description

Northrop 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.

U.S. Citizenship is required for all positions with a government clearance and certain other restricted positions.