Northrop Grumman is seeking a highly motivated and qualified Systems Engineer to serve the Mission Defense Team as the Hardware Assurance Engineer. This role involves assessing and prioritizing hardware security threats and ensuring the security and functionality of system architecture and design.
Assessment and analysis of threats, vulnerabilities, and risk for identified hardware and firmware components
Research, analyze data, and derive facts per identified vulnerabilities
Participate in a variety of working groups and customer meetings; ensure communication of risk environment with stakeholders
Contributes to program plans, goals, objectives, and milestones to for Hardware Assurance
Review technical security assessments of a system, identifying points of vulnerability, non-compliance with established standards and regulations and recommended mitigation strategies
Ensure the architecture and design of systems are functional and secure; support the design, development, implementation, and integration of security systems and system components
Support MDT with other duties as assigned
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) discipline 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
Must be a US Citizen with an active DoD Secret Clearance with an investigation date within the last 6 years
Must be able to be successfully screened for Enhanced Security Clearances, within a reasonable amount of time as determined by the company to meet its business needs
Minimum 2 years of applying and understanding Systems Security Engineering principles applicable to US Government Defense Programs
Minimum 2 years in showing the ability to communicate effectively and clearly present technical approaches and findings
Demonstrated experience and familiarity with vulnerability management
Experience with Model-based Systems Engineering (MBSE) concepts and tools
Preferred
Experience developing Systems Security Engineering requirements for hardware assurance
Evaluating program processes and compliance strategies for large, complex multi-site programs
Experience performing vulnerability analysis against hardware / firmware devices
Experience analyzing supply chain part databases, such as ERAI, Silicon Expert, or GIDEP
An understanding of Program Protection applicable to US Government Defense Programs and applied knowledge in the application of SSE principles across a broad spectrum of security measures (Cybersecurity, Counterfeit Awareness, Anti-Tamper, HW/SW Assurance, OPSEC, etc.) to protect critical program information (CPI)
Experience in any of the full product life cycles of: ASIC Design, FPGA Design
Experience in HDL (VHDL/Verilog), implementing designs using RTL
Ability to show self as team player, able to multi-task, able to generate quality work products independently, able to make excellent judgement and show interpersonal skills
Experience with data processing – taking various data sources and transforming this data into a viewable dashboard utilizing Tableau, Power BI, or other tools
Experience utilizing a requirements management database, such as IBM DOORs
