GNC Engineering Mgr 2: Weapons Prime Strategic Initiative (Secret) Chandler
Northrop Grumman· Defense· Oct 15, 2026 · 13d ago
United States-Arizona-Chandler
In office
Full-time
Staff
$144K–$212K est.
8+ years exp
Job description
RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available
CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: Yes
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.
Expand your horizons, advance your career, and contribute to a secure future for generations. Northrop Grumman’s Space Sector invites you to bring your pioneering spirit to our collaborative teams. As a Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GN&C) Manager – Level 1 located in Chandler, AZ , you’ll be a linchpin in missions of paramount importance, defining the art of the possible from day one. This position is 100% onsite and cannot accommodate telecommute work.
This first-line engineering leader will support the Weapons Prime Strategic Initiative. You will manage a group of approximately 8–20 GN&C engineers and will own workforce health and execution across GPI, Strike Weapons, SBI, and related priorities while building technical depth, integrated delivery, and a scalable leadership bench.
This position will work a 9/80 schedule, with every other Friday off.
In this job, you will:
• Lead an engineering organization responsible for high-consequence GN&C delivery across multiple programs, products, or work streams; establish operating priorities, staffing plans, and execution rhythms.
• Develop and lead managers, technical leads, and engineers through performance management, succession planning, mentoring, workforce development, and recruiting/retention actions.
• Provide senior technical leadership for missile-based GN&C system development, including guidance, autopilot/control, tracking, target-state estimation, modeling, simulation, integration, and verification.
• Own escalation, prioritization, resource tradeoffs, and execution recovery for complex technical, schedule, and workforce risks.
• Drive cross-functional integration among systems engineering, flight software, test, digital engineering, program management, and customer-facing technical teams.
• Ensure technical approaches, verification strategies, and program decisions are informed by mission needs, system performance, and program risk.
• Represent GN&C capabilities, performance risks, and investment needs to senior engineering and program leadership.
• Other duties as assigned
If this job description reads like it was written specifically for you, consider joining our team!
This position is contingent upon the candidate obtaining final clearances and program access(es) within a reasonable period of time as determined by the company.
Basic Qualifications:
• Bachelor’s degree with 8 years of professional experience – OR – Master’s degree with 6 years of professional experience. Will consider an additional 4+ years of experience in lieu of degree.
• Requires an active U.S. Government Secret security clearance at time of application, current and within scope
• Demonstrated success managing leaders and/or multiple engineering teams with accountability for workforce execution, staffing, performance, development, and delivery outcomes.
• Demonstrated professional GN&C experience for missile-based systems, including meaningful depth in guidance, autopilot/control, and tracking or state estimation.
Preferred Qualifications:
• Experience leading larger or more complex teams, organizations, or multiple work streams that develop, analyze, integrate, or verify missile-based guidance, navigation, and control (GN&C) systems.
• Demonstrated technical leadership in missile guidance algorithms, including midcourse, terminal, intercept, trajectory-shaping, and/or target-engagement guidance functions.
• Demonstrated technical depth in missile autopilot and control-law design, analysis, and verification, including stability, robustness, gain scheduling, actuator dynamics, vehicle dynamics, and flight-software integration.
• Experience with seeker tracking and target-state estimation using infrared (IR) and/or radio-frequency (RF) sensor systems, including sensor modeling, measurement processing, filtering, track formation and maintenance, and uncertainty characterization.
• Experience leading navigation-modeling and simulation efforts, sensor and algorithm performance assessment, mission analysis, and verification strategy development.· Experience leading technical integration across flight software, digital-engineering environments, hardware/test organizations, and verification campaigns.
• Experience supporting advanced weapons, tactical strike systems, interceptor programs, missile-defense applications, and/or space-flight systems.
• Experience leading technical execution in low-altitude, high-speed, high-dynamic, glide-phase, degraded-GPS, or other challenging flight environments.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate complex technical results, program risks, execution tradeoffs, and recommendations to senior engineering, program, and customer stakeholders.
As a leader with integrity, you ensure ethical conduct, balanced results, and partner satisfaction. You respect and nurture growth, fostering a culture of excellence. Skilled in building collaborative teams and customer trust, you communicate well, foster strong teams, and embrace change.
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Primary Level Salary Range: $139,100.00 - $208,700.00
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 northropgrumman.com. U.S. Citizenship is required for all positions with a government clearance and certain other restricted positions.
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