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An organization within Northrop Grumman’s Mission Systems Sector, Microelectronics Design and Applications (MDA) is a leading innovator in advanced microelectronics design and fabrication. MDA is seeking a Sr. Principal Factory Systems Engineering Integration and Test (SEIT) Lead. This position is located at the Linthicum, MD location. 

What You’ll get to Do: 

• Define software and hardware integration strategy and develop test roadmap/plan for advanced digital platforms supporting manufacturing and fabrication of microelectronics 

• Support planning, design, development, and installation of manufacturing automation tools and services 

• Collaborate with solution providers and partners to verify capabilities satisfy program requirements 

• Design validation approaches to ensure the system fulfills its operational objectives and stakeholder requirements in its intended operational setting 

• Ensure system technical compliance with the program Statement of Work (SOW) and system requirements 

• Lead system engineering activities: trade studies, analysis of alternatives, requirement decomposition/allocation, requirement verification/validation, process development, roadmap development 

Basic Qualifications for Sr. Principal Factory SEIT Lead: 

• A degree in a STEM area (Science, Technology, Engineering or Math) with a minimum of 8 years of experience with a bachelor’s degree, 6 years of experience with a master’s degree, or 4 years of experience with a PhD. 

• Able to drive execution of Statement of Work (SOW) components with vendors and work with a cross-functional team 

• Experience in systems or software development, integration, and test 

• Demonstrated requirements management from elicitation to verification, facilitating internal and customer collaboration to capture and enhance engineering artifacts 

• Experience managing risk and opportunity for production of core engineering work products 

• Experience with technology roadmap development, management, communication and implementation 

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to present frequent updates to management 

• Must be willing to work on site 100 of time 

• Limited travel to local Northrop Grumman facilities may be required 

• This position requires the applicant to be a U.S. citizen 

• Must be able to obtain and maintain a US government security clearance per business requirements 

Preferred Qualifications for Sr. Principal Factory SEIT Lead: 

• Active US government security clearance per business requirements. 

• Understanding of how modules integrate with broader systems in a Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM) architecture for semiconductor or microelectronics fabrication 

• Experience with modern automated factory systems in a semiconductor or microelectronics fab 

• Understanding of DoD systems engineering requirements approach 

• Knowledge of Systems Engineering processing from generation of an Integrated Master Plan (IMP) to Work Product Breakdown into Integrated Master Schedules (IMS) for the development of complex systems of systems 

• Experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies and software tools, i.e. Atlassian tools stack - Jira, Confluence