Internship and Cooperative Education (Co-op) opportunities at Northrop Grumman are unique. Sure, you’ll learn new skills, explore our enterprise, network with experts, connect with thought leaders, and finish with a resume that opens doors. But you’ll gain something even more valuable: pride in what you’ve done. Internships and Co-ops are a key strategy in Northrop Grumman’s college recruiting program. Northrop Grumman offers a variety of challenging internships/co-ops for qualified candidates currently pursuing a Bachelors, Masters or PhD degree in many Business and Operation Support Opportunities.

Northrop Grumman is a leading global security company providing innovative systems, products and solutions in autonomous systems, cyber, C4ISR, space, strike, and logistics and modernization to government and commercial customers worldwide.

Internship and Co-op opportunities may be part time while attending class (for schools that are a commutable distance to a Northrop Grumman facility, or full time (minimum 8-12 week commitment) in the summer. Cooperative Education opportunities are limited to participating Northrop Grumman locations and candidates from approved university Cooperative Education programs.

Wondering what you could be doing as an Engineer in Internship or Cooperative Education (Co-op) at Northrop Grumman? Here are a few examples:

As an **aerospace engineer, ** you could be responsible for developing requirements, design, integration, development or testing of air & space payloads, spacecraft buses, satellites, manned and unmanned aircraft.

As a mechanical engineer, you could participate in all aspects of requirements definition, design review, structural design, and integration and test. With our diversity of programs, some mechanical engineers spend their time focusing on the F-35, the country’s next fighter plane.

As an electrical engineer, you could find yourself in a role as an Analog Design Engineer, Antenna RF Engineer, Avionics Engineer, Circuit Designer, Digital / FPGA Design Engineer, Electrical System Design Integration, Field Technician Systems, Architecture and Design, Network Engineer, Power Electronics Engineer, Product Development Engineer, Radar Systems Engineer, RF/Microwave Engineer, Signal/Image Processing.

As an industrial/manufacturing engineer, you could find yourself in the role of Manufacturing Engineering, Process Planning, Measurements, Production, Supply Chain Management, Program Planning & Scheduling, Industrial Engineering, Operations Engineering, Process Engineering, or Facilities Engineering.

As a systems engineer, you could be responsible for generating and flowing down customer requirements to hardware and software designers, developing innovative system architectures, implementing advanced algorithms involving sophisticated signal processing and data processing techniques, and integrating and testing finished hardware and software products.

Our recruiters are looking forward to working with you to fulfill your career goals by identifying the best opportunity for you. To assist us in making sure you are considered for the best possible fit, please be sure to complete all questions in the profile including location preference, skills and areas of interest.

Northrop Grumman larger facilities include but are not limited to: Baltimore, MD; Chandler, AZ; Huntsville, AL, Northern VA; Melbourne, FL; Northridge, CA; Ogden, UT; Oklahoma City, OK; Palmdale, CA; Plymouth, MN; Redondo Beach, CA; Rocket Center, WV; Rolling Meadows, IL; Roy, UT San Diego, CA

Performance standards that an incumbent must have to be successful in this position include:

• Leadership and teamwork capabilities
• Interpersonal communication skills
• Extracurricular activities (campus organizations, clubs, student organizations, community service)
• Ability to effectively articulate technical challenges and solutions
• Exceptional written and oral communication skills

**Prospect Qualifications: **A prospect, regardless of age and hiring source must meet all of the below criteria:

• Be a student who is enrolled full-time and pursuing an undergraduate or graduate degree from an accredited college/university
• Be majoring in a science, technology, engineering, or math related degree
• Have an overall cumulative GPA of 3.0/4.0 or higher
• Be able to obtain a U.S. Government security clearance (U.S. citizenship is a pre requisite)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Overall GPA of 3.25/4.0 or higher
• Prior internship or research experience in related field
• Proficiency in Microsoft office suite

Northrop Grumman is a technology company, focused on global security and human discovery. Our pioneering solutions equip our customers with capabilities they need to connect, advance and protect the U.S. and its allies. Driven by a shared purpose to solve our customers’ toughest problems, our 90,000 employees define possible every day.