User Experience Engineer/Designer - Level 2 or 3

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: No relocation assistance available

CLEARANCE TYPE: Secret

TRAVEL: Yes, 10% of the Time

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 - from the first flight across the Atlantic Ocean, to stealth bombers, to landing on the moon. We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage and a pioneering spirit to join forces to invent the future, and have fun along the way. Our culture thrives on intellectual curiosity, cognitive diversity and bringing your whole self to work — and we have an insatiable drive to do what others think is impossible. Our employees are not only part of history, they're making history.

Northrop Grumman Space Systems has an exciting career opportunity for a User Experience Engineer/Designer to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals. This position will be located in Huntsville, AL.

Position Overview:

The selected User Experience Engineer/Designer will provide support for the MASC-F (Modeling and Simulation – Framework) program.

Essential Functions:

• Drive enhancements to MASC-F products to improve the user experience of our tools and interfaces

• Manage projects and work product integrations across the Software Development, Systems Engineering, User Engagement teams, and customer stakeholder teams

• Be responsible for the overall user interface modernization for MASC-F products, tools, and utilities.

• Work with agile scrum teams to verify acceptance criteria related to interface modernization and usability

• Identify and maintain user personas to represent key segments of our vast user base to identify UI/UX improvements and understand likely impacts to changes in the user interfaces of MASC-F tools and utilities

• Processing user feedback to form mid-fidelity wireframes to produce high-fidelity mockups to be used by developers.

• Work with the Systems Engineering team to help define development requirements

• Analyzing competitor applications to identify potential UI/UX improvements

• Work alongside customer stakeholders to select UI/UX features to be worked, gather feedback on potential design updates, and maintain an agile backlog of potential UI/UX enhancements and modernizations for future consideration

• Proactively identify areas where UI/UX support is needed and insert themselves into relevant meetings, discussions, and projects to provide expertise and guidance

• As the sole UI/UX expert on the team, drive UI/UX decisions and ensure that user-centered design principles are integrated into all aspects of the program

The selected candidate should thrive in a fast-paced work environment with high expectations, significantly diverse assignments, and collaborative/team settings across all levels. Limited travel may be required.

This requisition may be filled at either a Software Engineer / Principal Software Engineer level.

Basic Qualifications for a Software Developer:

• Bachelor’s Degree in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) discipline preferred from an accredited university and 2 years of related experience, or a Master's Degree in a STEM discipline and 0 years of related experience.

• 2+ Years experience in design tools such as Sketch, Figma, Balsamiq, Adobe XD, or InVision.

• Understanding of user-centered design principles and human-computer interaction.

• Experience in front-end development (HTML, CSS, JavaScript).

• Experience with Agile, Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment.

• Demonstrate strong collaboration skills

• Full time onsite

• A current active in-scope U.S. Government DoD Secret security clearance.

Basic Qualifications for a Principal Software Developer:

• Bachelor’s Degree in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) discipline preferred from an accredited university and 5 years of related experience, or a Master's Degree in a STEM discipline and 2 years of related experience, or a PhD in a STEM discipline and 0 years of experience.

• 3+ Years experience in design tools such as Sketch, Figma, Balsamiq, Adobe XD, or InVision.

• Understanding of user-centered design principles and human-computer interaction.

• Experience in front-end development (HTML, CSS, JavaScript).

• Experience with Agile, Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment.

• Demonstrate strong collaboration skills

• Full time onsite

• Full time onsite

• A current active in-scope U.S. Government DoD Secret security clearance.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Familiar with Scaled Agile Framework

• Experience with Java and user interfaces

• Familiar with Jira - issue tracking and agile project management, or similar tool

• Multi-core and multi-threaded programming

• Familiarity with MDA Sensors and missile defense systems

• A current active U.S. Government DoD Top Secret security clearance

Primary Level Salary Range: $87,600.00 - $131,400.00

Secondary Level Salary Range: $108,800.00 - $163,200.00

The above salary range represents a general guideline; however, Northrop Grumman considers a number of factors when determining base salary offers such as the scope and responsibilities of the position and the candidate's experience, education, skills and current market conditions.

Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay. Annual bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions as well as allow employees to share in company results. Employees in Vice President or Director positions may be eligible for Long Term Incentives. In addition, Northrop Grumman provides a variety of benefits including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, savings plan, Company paid holidays and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business.

The application period for the job is estimated to be 20 days from the job posting date. However, this timeline may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates.

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. For our complete EEO and pay transparency statement, please visit http://www.northropgrumman.com/EEO. U.S. Citizenship is required for all positions with a government clearance and certain other restricted positions.