From Intern to Mechanical Design Engineer on the James Webb Space Telescope

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Mei-Li joined Northrop Grumman in 2016 as an intern. Today, sheā€™s a mechanical design engineer on the James Webb Space Telescope, working on the mechanical ground systems engineering team. Tell us about your role on Webb. My team is in charge of designing all of the Webb equipment thatā€™s not going to space, called mechanical […]

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A Mindboggling Opportunity

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A Motherā€™s Inspiration Puts a Northrop Grumman Intern on a Path to Space ā€‹This summer, intern Derrick regularly walked across Northrop Grumman’s Space Park campus to the high bay that was the temporary home of the James Webb Space Telescope. For Derrick, a budding electrical engineer, seeing an exquisite and complex piece of equipment that […]

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Meet Gareth, an Intern

Hi, my name is Gareth and Iā€™m one of the 2020/21 Cyber Research Interns. My background is as a Computer and Cyber Forensics student at the University of Gloucestershire. Over the 12-month internship I have undertook two primary projects that highlight areas of future interest for Northrop Grumman. The projects have included research surrounding topics […]

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Meet Robniqua: Global Hawk Software Engineer

Tell us about your path to Northrop Grumman. How did you get hired here? I was able to attend the National Society of Black Engineer (NSBE) Conference in 2019, during my junior year of college. At the time, I was Miss Upsilon Pi Epsilon (UPE) for North Carolina Agriculture and Technical State University UPEā€™s chapter […]

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Veteran Spotlight: Meet Marine Corps Veteran Stephanie

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Stephanie is a Systems Test Engineer with Northrop Grumman. She graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 2009 as a Marine Corps Officer with a Bachelor of Science Degree in applied mathematics. After two and a half years of flight training, she became appointed as Naval Aviator in 2012. She was then deployed with the […]

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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 […]

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Meet Essence: An Intern Finding New Ways To Enhance F-35 Program

F-35 Lightning Aircraft

ā€œBeing able to come up with my own measurement algorithm is something that I never would have thought I would be doing in this lifetime, but here I am doing it.ā€ ā€“ EssenceĀ  Essence is an intern working on the F-35 Lightning II aircraft. She helps her team with a variety of projects throughout the […]

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