Senior Staff AI Systems Engineer
Northrop Grumman1 day ago
Baltimore, MD, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$223k - $334k/yr
Responsibilities
- Serve as a senior consultant for AI/ML target identification and classification in onboard real-time environments.
- Design and implement machine-learning and sensor-fusion algorithms for multimodal target recognition.
- Define data strategies covering collection, labeling, simulation, synthetic-data generation, domain adaptation, and data-quality governance.
- Develop training and evaluation pipelines with rigorous performance metrics.
- Architect resilient real-time embedded solutions within existing software architectures.
- Author technical specifications and interface control documents and support HIL, SIL, flight, and field-test planning.
- Mentor engineers, lead design reviews, and guide technology maturation.
- Engage customers and stakeholders to translate mission needs into technical roadmaps and executable milestones.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree with 14 years of experience, master’s degree with 12 years, or PhD with 10 years in STEM or related technical fields; an additional four years may substitute for a degree.
- U.S. citizenship is required.
- Current and active U.S. Government Secret clearance and ability to obtain Special Program Access are required.
- Experience developing machine-learning algorithms for automatic target recognition and deploying models to embedded multifunction radar platforms.
- Experience generating and incorporating synthetic data into supervised or unsupervised training pipelines.
- Experience addressing the synthetic-to-real gap through data augmentation, transfer learning, or adversarial training.
- Software engineering experience with MATLAB, Python, C++11 or later, and/or Linux.
- Experience delivering real-time, mission-critical AI systems with clear performance ownership.
- Preferred experience includes SAR processing, GMTI/SMTI, STAP, ATR/AMTI, RF signal classification, robustness and assurance methods, high-reliability verification and validation, telemetry-driven monitoring, and autonomy-stack integration.
- Active TS/SCI clearance is preferred.
Benefits
- Health plan, savings plan, paid time off, education assistance, training and development, and additional benefits.
- 9/80 work schedule where available.
- 100% on-site position in Linthicum, Maryland.
- Relocation assistance may be available.
- The role includes 10% travel.
- The position is contingent upon successful transfer of an active U.S. Government Secret Clearance and ability to obtain Special Program Access.
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About Northrop Grumman
Northrop Grumman designs and manufactures aircraft, spacecraft, missile defense, C4ISR, and cyber systems for the U.S. government, NASA, and allied nations. The company operates primarily through long-term defense and space contracts, delivering products and services spanning autonomous systems, sensors, software, and sustainment. Founded in 1994 and headquartered in Falls Church, Virginia, it is a public company listed on the NYSE (ticker: NOC).