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Prognostics Health & Management Systems Engineer

Prognostics Health & Management Systems Engineer

CompanyNorthrop Grumman
LocationMelbourne, FL, USA
Salary$77200 – $115800
TypeFull-Time
DegreesBachelor’s, Master’s
Experience LevelJunior, Mid Level

Requirements

  • Your ability to transfer and maintain the final adjudicated government Secret clearance, and any program access (es) required for the position within a reasonable period of time, as determined by the company.
  • Bachelor’s Degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) field from an accredited university with 2 years previous experience working in an Engineering or Technical position OR a Master’s Degree in STEM with 0 years of experience.
  • Experience within Health Management, Prognostics, Diagnostics, and/or Reliability & Maintainability Engineering disciplines
  • Previous experience, including academic research, directly related to the development of Prognostics Health Management (PHM) or Condition Based Maintenance Plus (CBM+) technologies, or analysis and simulation of complex electrical or mechanical systems
  • Working knowledge in data analysis (algorithms, data structures, and architectures), probability, statistics, signal processing, and predictive modeling
  • Work experience with anomaly/outlier detection in time series data.

Responsibilities

  • Analyze various types of flight/fault logs, assign Fault Identification (FID) codes, and host customer BIT Review Boards (BRB)
  • Coordinate with stakeholders, suppliers, and customers, internally and externally, in support of improving Built-In-Test (BIT) Fault Detection, Fault Isolation and BIT False Alarm performance metrics
  • Develop models and scalable algorithms derived from both data and underlying physics of failure models to evaluate the condition of Mission and Air Vehicle systems
  • Create predictive models of physical degradation, failures, and data-driven prognostics algorithms to assess the health and performance of critical components
  • Formulate health monitoring strategies to detect anomalies/outliers in real flight data
  • Conduct research and development projects concentrating on Prognostic Health Management (PHM) and Condition Based Maintenance Plus (CBM+)
  • Gather and analyze component and WRA failure history, including failure modes, downtime, MTBF, power cycles, reboots, repeat faults, etc.
  • Effectively communicate and present to project and program management, and other technical and non-technical managers and customers
  • Work collaboratively in a team environment with other highly motivated system engineers and data scientists.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Master’s degree in a STEM field (Mechanical, Electrical or Manufacturing).
  • Active DoD Top Secret Clearance.
  • Programming skills, preferably in Python and its numerical and data libraries (pandas, scipy, numpy, etc.)
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Visio, Project, Word, PowerPoint, and Excel Office Products
  • Work experience with big data tools (Databricks, Presto, Data Lake, Apache Spark, etc.)
  • Work experience developing visualization tools and dashboards using Tableau
  • Familiarity with fault detection and diagnosis methods, and reliability analysis
  • Experience with MLOps and building machine learning pipelines in a professional setting
  • Demonstrated history of generating new ideas or improving existing ideas in statistical modeling or machine learning, indicated by accomplishments such as first-author publications or projects
  • Experience with data architectures in relation to how to store, fetch, and manipulate data (SQL, custom APIs, etc.)