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About the Role

Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems has an opening for a Principal Data Scientist to join their Systems Engineering organization in San Diego, CA. This role supports a data analysis effort within the Sustainment Systems Engineering team on the Triton Enterprise, requiring maintenance, development, and execution of data analysis tools for data-driven decision making. The position also involves assisting with network updates and virtual machine maintenance for the hosting database, demanding strong experience in ingesting, processing, storing, analyzing, and visualizing large datasets.

Responsibilities

Design scalable data mining pipelines, establish protocols for data ingestion, cleaning, transformation, and storage.
Evolve models to capture long term trends and support real time analytics.
Perform exploratory data analysis, hypothesis testing, and advanced statistical modeling to identify key drivers and associations within heterogeneous data sources.
Create interactive dashboards and reports using modern BI and visualization tools (e.g., Tableau, PowerBI, Plotly) to communicate insights to technical and non technical stakeholders.
Partner with engineering, operations, and business units to define problem statements, translate requirements into analytical solutions, and integrate findings into product roadmaps.
Stay abreast of cutting edge data science methodologies (e.g., deep learning, reinforcement learning) and evaluate their relevance to defense contexts.
Mentor teams and promote a culture of data driven decision making.
Establish data governance standards, data quality metrics, and reproducibility practices across the analytics lifecycle.
Maintain, develop, and routinely run a set of data analysis tools to help make data-driven decision making.
Assist with network updates and maintenance of the virtual machines that host the database.

Requirements

Must have a Bachelors degree in a STEM field and at least 5 years of relevant military / professional experience, OR a Master's Degree in a STEM field and at least 3 years of relevant military / professional experience, OR a PhD and at least 1 year of relevant military / professional / academic experience.
Must have an active DoD Secret or higher clearance (with a background investigation completed within the last 6 years or currently enrolled into Continuous Evaluation).
Must have the ability to obtain and maintain Special Access Program (SAP) clearance within a reasonable time as determined by business needs.
Demonstrated proficiency with Python, SQL, Tableau, and .DAT file decoding.
Understand security patch updates to virtual machine instances on servers hosted on central network.
Ability to translate complex analytics into clear, actionable insights.
Self-starter in influencing cross functional teams, out-of-the-box problem solving, and driving analytical strategy.
Proven ability to influence and drive adoption of best practices across teams.
Capable of reading and understanding system architecture diagrams.
Keen interest in autonomous air vehicle platforms and its operations.
U.S. Citizenship is required for all positions with a government clearance and certain other restricted positions.

Skills

Data mining
Data ingestion
Data cleaning
Data transformation
Data storage
Statistical modeling
Exploratory data analysis
Hypothesis testing
BI tools
Visualization tools
Tableau
PowerBI
Plotly
Python
SQL
.DAT file decoding
Network updates
Virtual machine maintenance
Deep learning
Reinforcement learning
Data governance
Data quality metrics
Reproducibility practices

Location

San Diego, CA

Work Type

9/80 schedule
Every other Friday off

Experience Level

Principal

Education Level

Bachelors degree in a STEM field
Master's Degree in a STEM field
PhD
Specific degree and focus in the Data Science field

Salary/Compensations

$125,300.00 - $187,900.00

Benefits

Relocation assistance may be available
Overtime
Shift differential
Discretionary bonus
Annual bonuses
Long Term Incentives (for VP/Director positions)
Health insurance coverage
Life insurance
Disability insurance
Savings plan
Company paid holidays
Paid time off (PTO)

About the Company

At Northrop Grumman, 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.

Equal Opportunity

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.