Principal/Senior Principal Systems Engineer
About The Position
Northrop Grumman Space Systems is seeking an experienced Principal/Senior Principal Systems Engineer to support its Advanced Tactical Missions Business Unit on a program based in Morrisville, North Carolina. The position performs systems engineering, integration, verification, and validation for total systems across concept, design, test, installation, operation, and maintenance. The engineer will lead engineering of a family-wide software product line, defining, developing, and integrating reusable components across multiple product variants. The role connects hardware and software, ensuring system-level requirements, interface control documents, use-case models, and workflow definitions are consistently captured, validated, and delivered in an Agile environment. The position is contingent on obtaining final clearances and program access within a reasonable period determined by the company. Relocation assistance may be available, and travel is required 10% of the time.
Requirements
- Principal Systems Engineer: bachelor's degree and 5 years of relevant experience, master's degree and 3 years of relevant experience, or Ph.D. and 0 years of relevant experience.
- Senior Principal Systems Engineer: bachelor's degree and 8 years of relevant experience, master's degree and 6 years of relevant experience, or Ph.D. and 4 years of relevant experience.
- Proven experience with ground systems engineering, systems integration, or software engineering.
- Experience with requirements engineering and working knowledge of verification and validation and Model-Based Systems Engineering.
- Experience working with customers and subcontractors.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills.
- Experience creating interface description documents.
- Active Top Secret/SCI clearance at the time of application and willingness to sit for a polygraph.
- Ability to obtain final clearances and program access within a reasonable period determined by the company.
Nice To Haves
- Active Top Secret/SCI clearance with an adjudicated polygraph.
- Experience using Jira and Confluence to collaborate on team tasking and work instructions.
- Experience using DOORS and/or Cameo for requirements management.
- Experience and knowledge working with hardware integration.
Responsibilities
- Perform systems engineering, integration, verification, and validation for total systems across concept, design, test, installation, operation, and maintenance.
- Lead engineering of a family-wide software product line, including defining, developing, and integrating reusable components across product variants.
- Elicit, analyze, and document system-level functional and non-functional requirements for the product line.
- Maintain a traceability matrix linking requirements to design, implementation, and verification artifacts.
- Conduct requirements reviews with hardware, firmware, quality assurance, and product management stakeholders.
- Define and maintain interface control documents for hardware-software and software-software interfaces.
- Create use-case diagrams, activity flows, and sequence diagrams that capture user interactions and internal processes.
Benefits
- Health insurance coverage
- Life insurance
- Disability insurance
- Savings plan
- Company-paid holidays
- Paid time off for vacation and/or personal business
- Employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus, depending on the position.
- Annual bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions and allow employees to share in company results.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
