When NASA retired its Space Shuttle Program, it turned to industry partners to handle the world’s most complicated delivery service: shipments from Earth to the International Space Station (ISS). […]
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The Downsizing Developer
By Leigh McLeod Why go big when you can go small? For Radio Frequency (RF) Engineer Tim, that’s his modus operandi. Tim joined Northrop Grumman in May 2021 to work on a classified program in Aurora, Colorado, but quickly realized he missed working on RF, which he’d spent most of his career on. When he […]
Reinventing Larsha
By Suzanne Kubler Electrical Engineer Larsha is a single mom. And for her, it’s the single most important role of her life — a life that was changed by a simple question from her son, Noah. When Noah was 11, he came home from school and asked if he could attend robotics camp. At the […]
Careers
We are 95,000 people – with careers across all areas: air, cyber, land, sea and space. We work as one to defend and define the future through science, technology and engineering. […]
At the Helm of Aqua
By Michelle A. Monroe Carl was having a conversation with his 9-year-old grandson, Jeremiah, when he began sharing his love of science and how he turned it into a lifelong career. “As Jeremiah began asking more about climate change, I had one piece of advice: Let science be your guide,” Carl said. At Northrop Grumman, […]
Champions Among Us
By Steve Lamb, Elizabeth McCann and Elvia Valenzuela We’ve all heard about them: elite athletes pushing the boundaries of their sports, achieving things most of us have only ever seen on TV. Like all of us, those athletes have a story and, while no two stories are the same, they tend to have some similar […]
Suit Up: Hollywood Meets Engineering in the HIVE
Leveraging model-based systems engineering, virtual reality and full-body, high-precision motion capture, the Highly Immersive Virtual Environment (HIVE) allows engineers to be present inside their designs. […]
UK MilSatCom
Northrop Grumman, with mission expertise dating back to the dawn of the space age, giving us a unique perspective on MilSatCom in the UK to protect the warfighter and preserve freedom. […]
Unfinished Business
Doug is a staff engineer on several programs supporting guided munitions, which are weapons deployed from aircraft or ships to eliminate threats. […]
Protected: Careers Kate Test
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Northrop Grumman’s Commitment to an Engineer’s Family, Education and Career Development
Northrop Grumman encourages work-life balance and supports education and career development opportunities. Vincent Hodges shares his experience. […]
Meet Bethany: An Engineer Working to Ensure Perfect Balance
Bethany is a passionate Structures and Mechanical Systems Engineer and Weight & Balance Engineer on the KC-30A Program. Read more about her daily work life. What does your position involve? A critical part of my role is continuing airworthiness for my team. This means monitoring long term and ongoing projects that will keep our aircraft […]
Success Across Millions of Miles
By Amanda Collins When something doesn’t go as planned after launch, you can’t pull a spacecraft back into the shop, take it apart and fix it. Often, you can’t even get a glimpse of what’s wrong. For most people — and companies — the story would stop there. But giving up isn’t an option for […]
The Height of Her Career
By Stephanie Flyger If there’s one thing true about Claire, it’s that she can’t be contained: not by a stereotype and not by a desk. Fortunately, as a Northrop Grumman field engineer in Colorado Springs, Colorado, she doesn’t have to be — her job takes her around the world and is essentially one she’s been […]
The Women of Artemis
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Women in STEM
Meet the women at Northrop Grumman who are using their expertise and experience in STEM related fields to define possible every day. […]
Tina’s Return to Northrop Grumman: Finding Work-Life Balance
After giving birth to her daughter in 2013, Tina’s perspective on her job changed and she sought a more even work-life balance at Northrop Grumman. […]
Stephanie Locks Awarded SME’s “Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer”
Through the Northrop Grumman Future Technical Leaders rotational program, manufacturing engineer Locks is applying her skills to real-world missions. […]
An Engineer’s Journey: From BEYA to a Career at Northrop Grumman
Meet Travene Grant, a tool engineer, working as a metrologist. Travene works at Northrop Grumman in St. Augustine, Florida where he uses metrology, the science of measurement, to assist with building aircraft. What was your journey to Northrop Grumman like? I honestly didn’t know much about Northrop Grumman before working here. I thought my passion […]
People, Peaks & Panoramas: Engineer Summits Mt. Everest
As an engineering manager at Northrop Grumman, Jim’s ability to logically prepare and visualize a solution better equipped him to summit Mt. Everest. […]
Growing With Technology: Mechanical Engineer Adds Value to Business Development Team
To Teran Chase of Northrop Grumman, growing with technology means marrying mechanical engineering and STEM activism with business development. […]
Test Engineer Returns to Northrop Grumman
Welcome Home: In four short years as a professional, test engineer TJ Jasinski has had a wide array of experiences in the defense… […]
Engineer in Central Florida Gives Back in Many Ways
Naomi Hernandez is redefining engineering leadership, measuring success by her impact on the engineering community and focusing on serving future generations. […]
Cybersecurity Problems Are No Match for Chandria Poole’s Forward-Thinking Approach
Cybersecurity problems are an ever-present threat to major corporations. Chandria Poole is taking a proactive approach to solving them, now and in the future. […]
Ingenious Device Solves Aerospace Engineering Problems in a Pinch
Steven Kuo created a pinch polarizer, which transforms a linear radio signal into a circularly polarized signal, to solve engineering problems. […]
Mentorship Programs Are Joint (STARS) Ventures
Northrop Grumman is full of bright and talented employees, with many avenues to participate in mentorship programs. […]
Career Growth for Space Systems Engineer through Brooke Owens Fellowship Program
Fellowship programs like Brooke Owens Fellowship provide paid internships and mentorship to undergraduate women in aerospace, including this systems engineer. […]
An Engineering Mentor Explains His Career Path
Discover how Ryan Haughey went from engineering student to becoming an engineering mentor for students at his alma mater. […]
Women in Engineering: High Fives for Quality and Community
One of Northrop Grumman’s incredible women in engineering, Tina Rateau is driven by a simple mission statement: “Get a cause. Get involved. Get going.” […]
Career in Aerospace and Defense Is Balanced by Life, Love and Leadership
Mary Petryszyn of Northrop Grumman’s Land and Avionics C4ISR Division shares lessons learned throughout her career in aerospace. […]
Engineering Career Advice: Lessons Learned From a 44-Year Career at Northrop Grumman
Todd Harland White, Chief Architect at Undersea Systems and Consulting Engineer, offers engineering career advice after 44 years at Northrop Grumman. […]
From Perseverance to Providing Scholarships
By Taylor Alexander, as told to Emily Gabaldon It wasn’t an easy feat studying aerospace engineering while recovering from jaw surgery. I was born with a birth defect that resulted in a severe craniofacial deformity and I have overcome several surgeries and iterations of braces throughout my life. Just two weeks prior to starting my […]
Liz’s Story: How an Army Analyst transitioned to a Business Development Manager
Following a successful career in the US Army as an enlisted Intel Analyst and Linguist, Liz moved back to Arkansas where she started working on her bachelor’s degree thanks to the GI Bill. Shortly after that, Liz moved to Florida, where she saw a Northrop Grumman advertisement in the newspaper for a cleared administrative assistant. […]
Taking to the Skies
By Michelle A. Monroe Engineer Skylor is right at home in the cockpit of the sleek, red-and-white airplane he built with his father, Jim. “It was my father’s idea to build a plane, and I ran with it,” said Skylor, who spent nearly every weekend from 2003 to 2010 taking the project from concept to […]
Powering the Artemis Generation
Building on the legacy of the Apollo and Space Shuttle programs, Northrop Grumman is pushing the limits of possible with the Artemis program, which will land the first woman and first person of color on the moon. […]
No Second Guesses
An airman finds purpose and mission in his job at Northrop Grumman By Andrew Meyer Growing up, I was that kid who was always looking up at airplanes, dreaming of flying. It was in my blood, as my dad flew in the U.S. Air Force before I was born. I also knew that I wanted […]
Training for Stealth: Northrop Grumman partners with community college to train critically skilled workers for low observable field
Training for Stealth: Northrop Grumman partners with community college to train critically skilled workers for low observable field […]
Change-Maker
Systems Architect Engineer Keyshawn is on a mission to change how kids growing up in poverty imagine their future. Driven to give back and remove barriers, Keyshawn has a sense of purpose that is clearer than that of many twice his age. He has ambitious plans to empower young people, starting in his hometown of […]
Eureka Moment
By Leslie Zychowski A “eureka!” moment can strike at any time — on a yoga mat, in the garage, or in the shower — proving that some of the best ideas can happen when you least expect them. For Alex, an innovation manager in Huntsville, Alabama, realization struck while he was sitting in his dining […]
Si Se Puede
Northrop Grumman aerospace engineer Edwin Morales was born in East Los Angeles, California, but spent much of his childhood in Mexico. […]
A Pathway into an Engineering Career
Northrop Grumman’s Pathways Program is a three-year rotational program for entry-level professionals to establish a foundation in their career and develop business acumen. […]
Daring to Dream
By Bernie Rodriguez, as told to Brandon Hartman Growing up in Puerto Rico, a career in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) was an alien concept. In fact, when I mentioned that I wanted to be a scientist, everyone — except for my mom — laughed at me like I was out of my mind. […]
Written in the Stars
Couple Celebrates Their Projects Colliding as Northrop Grumman Helps NASA Retrieve Spacecraft After Splashdown By Michelle A. Monroe Two aerospace engineers fall in love, get married and spend years in each other’s professional orbits before they finally collide. It’s a story practically written in the stars. Debra and Joe, who work for Northrop Grumman and […]
A Three-Dimensional Career
The first time Jasmine saw a 3D-printed airplane part, she felt like she was starting an adventure. “I was making fuel doors and they were kind of this odd, oblong shape, and they 3D printed a bunch of prototypes for a check fit,” she recalled. “They arrived in these huge, wooden crates like something out […]
Engineering Careers – Make Something Incredible
Engineers at Nortrhop Grumman create and improve systems that Define Possible undersea, on land, in the sky and in the far reaches of outer space. Apply for an engineering job and be at the forefront of innovation. […]
Life on a Moon Base
In July 2022 — sponsored by Northrop Grumman and as part of earning her master’s degree in human spaceflight from the University of North Dakota — Krystal volunteered to teach a three-week course on lunar base architecture and space human factors for the Juneau Icefield Research Program. […]
Meet Orlyse: A Systems Engineer Defining Possible
Tell us about your path to Northrop Grumman. How did you get hired here? A few of my classmates from undergrad at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) were Northrop Grumman interns. At the time, I did not know much about the company, so during the 2019 National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) conference, […]
Meet Arlanda: Defining Possible Through Designing, Testing, and Analyzing
Can you tell us about how you found your way to Northrop Grumman? During my undergraduate career at Grambling State University, I attended various conferences such as the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) and Black Engineer of the Year Awards (BEYA). My senior year of college, I was awarded the Black Engineer of the […]
Made It Possible: Robert Romero and Empowering Future Rocket Scientists
If you would have told me when I was a young boy growing up on a Colorado dairy farm that I would get the opportunity to design, build and test rocket motors for a living, I never would have believed you. My father was a dairyman who left school when he was in sixth grade […]
One of the Quietest Places on Earth: A Silent Testing Chamber to Improve Radar
The world is becoming increasingly cluttered by radio frequencies from wireless devices, making testing radars a challenge. To ensure radars are going to perform as needed, engineers need a space that eliminates radio interference. […]