Cyber Systems Engineer - Level 4

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available
CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: No
CLEARANCE TYPE: None
TRAVEL: Yes, 10% of the TimeDescription
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Northrop Grumman’s Space Systems sector is seeking a Cyber Systems Engineer – Level 4 to join our team in Chandler, Arizona.
The selected candidate will serve as a senior technical leader responsible for defining, integrating, and validating the security posture of a complex missile or weapon system throughout its lifecycle. This role combines systems engineering with Systems Security Engineering (SSE), cybersecurity, Anti-Tamper (AT), exportability, Program Protection, and supply-chain risk management.
The Cyber Systems Engineer - Level 4 will translate customer and product requirements into secure, integrated system solutions that account for technical performance, cost, schedule, risk, supportability, and lifecycle constraints. The individual will help establish technical direction, lead security engineering activities and design reviews, mentor engineering staff, and communicate with program leadership, customers, and multidisciplinary engineering teams.
Essential Functions and Key Responsibilities
Serve as a senior technical authority for SSE, cybersecurity, AT, exportability, supply-chain risk management, and Program Protection activities across a major missile or weapon system program.
Develop and maintain the system security architecture, technical strategy, implementation roadmap, and security engineering approach across the system lifecycle.
Perform technical planning, system integration, requirements analysis and allocation, interface definition, trade studies, risk analysis, and verification and validation for total system solutions.
Support engineering activities across concept development, design, fabrication, integration, test, installation, operation, sustainment, and disposal.
Convert customer, mission, and product requirements into logical and systematic system solutions that account for technical, schedule, cost, supportability, and security constraints.
Perform functional analysis, timeline analysis, detailed trade studies, requirements allocation, and interface studies to translate customer requirements into hardware, firmware, and software specifications.
Lead the identification, assessment, and classification of Critical Program Information and critical components.
Conduct advanced threat, vulnerability, and security risk assessments and recommend risk-response strategies.
Lead security trade studies that balance protection effectiveness, mission performance, cost, schedule, technical maturity, exportability, and residual risk.
Develop, review, and coordinate key program security artifacts, including the Program Protection Plan, System Security Plan, Security Classification Guide, Anti-Tamper Plan, exportability assessments, supply-chain risk assessments, requirements compliance matrices, and related documentation.
Define, allocate, and maintain traceability of security requirements across system, subsystem, hardware, firmware, software, and supplier elements.
Oversee the implementation of technical and nontechnical security controls across design, integration, production, operation, sustainment, and disposal.
Evaluate hardware, firmware, software, interfaces, and supply-chain elements for secure operation, compliance, and exposure to capable adversaries.
Ensure security engineering activities align with applicable contractual requirements, government direction, and US Government and NIST guidance, including NIST SP 800-160 and the Risk Management Framework.
Lead or support security verification and validation, technical reviews, security testing, certification and authorization activities, risk acceptance documentation, and closure of technical findings.
Assess the effectiveness of security requirements and countermeasures using objective evidence, analysis, inspection, demonstration, and test.
Lead security content for major program and design reviews and communicate security posture, residual risk, technical issues, and mitigation strategies to program leadership and customer stakeholders.
Collaborate with systems engineering, software, hardware, test, safety, specialty engineering, supply chain, program management, and security organizations.
Mentor junior and mid-level engineers and provide technical direction, training, work-product reviews, and support for professional development.
Basic Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in a STEM field with 8 years of professional experience – OR – Master’s degree with 6 years of professional experience – OR – PhD with 4 years of professional experience.
Experience applying systems engineering processes to complex systems across multiple lifecycle stages.
Experience with system security architecture, security requirements development and allocation, risk assessment, countermeasure definition, and verification planning.
Demonstrated experience with Anti-Tamper design or implementation for protecting Critical Program Information on classified US Government programs.
Working knowledge of applicable US Government and NIST security engineering processes and frameworks, such as US Government Anti-Tamper guidance, NIST SP 800-160, and the Risk Management Framework.
Experience evaluating embedded hardware, firmware, software, interfaces, or system components for compliance and secure operation.
Ability to lead technical activities, communicate complex security matters, and collaborate with program leadership, customers, and multidisciplinary engineering teams.
Strong written and verbal communication, technical leadership, and mentoring skills.
U.S. citizenship.
Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government Secret or higher security clearance.
Preferred Qualifications
Active U.S. Government Secret or higher security clearance.
Experience supporting complex embedded missile, weapon, or High Assurance Device development programs.
Experience developing or leading system security architecture across the full system lifecycle.
Experience authoring or leading Program Protection Plans, Security Classification Guides, Anti-Tamper Plans, exportability assessments, supply-chain risk assessments, System Security Plans, or similar program security artifacts.
Experience with requirements management, bidirectional traceability, interface definition, security compliance matrices, and model-based systems engineering.
Knowledge of threat-modeling methods, advanced adversary capabilities, reverse-engineering threats and countermeasures, hardware assurance, firmware security, tamper resistance, and security verification and validation.
Experience supporting sec