Reliability Engineer Level 3/4

About the Role

Northrop Grumman Defense Systems is looking for a Reliability Engineer with the ability to obtain a security clearance to work with our talented Advanced Weapons team located in Northridge, CA.

The ideal candidate will have experience in reliability, maintainability and testability engineering processes and standards to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals, supporting programs for defining and architecting a secured missile weapon system. The qualified applicant will become part of Northrop Grumman's Reliability Engineering team within Specialty Engineering, working closely with team members of other projects as well as external partners and customers.

This position requires the selected candidate to work on-site in Northridge, CA. Telework is not available for this position.

Responsibilities

• Perform reliability and maintainability allocations and predictions for missile systems
• Develop/Analyze Failure Modes Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMECA), Built-In Test (BIT) and Testability analyses
• Develop mission success/reliability analyses
• Support Failure Reporting Analysis and Corrective Action System (FRACAS)
• Perform Failure Analysis and Risk Assessment
• Support Built-In Test (BIT) Design Verification Testing to evaluate BIT effectiveness
• Support Maintainability and Testability Demonstrations
• Support Highly Accelerated Life Testing (HALT) and Reliability Growth Testing (RGT)
• Utilize knowledge of documents such as MIL-HDBK-338, MIL-HDBK-472, MIL-STD-2155, ANSI/VITA 51.1 and MIL-HDBK-217 F(N2), IEEE 1633 to perform engineering analyses and make recommendations to design teams
• Develop trustworthy customer relationships via excellent communication, technical insight and successful execution of programs
• Collaborate with Integrated Product Teams (IPT), program management, customers, and suppliers for the reliability, maintainability and testability (RMT) aspects of assigned systems
• Support identifying, planning and quoting the RMT tasks for proposals

Clearance Requirements

• No security clearance required to start; ability to obtain a Secret clearance required
• Travel: approximately 10% of the time
• Relocation assistance may be available