Principal Systems Engineer 3

Northrop Grumman • San Diego, CA

11d • $114,000 - $171,000 • Onsite

About The Position

Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems is seeking a Requirements Engineer to support the AISR&T program in Rancho Bernardo, California. The role focuses on end-to-end requirements engineering for mission-critical airborne ISR and tactical systems, ensuring stakeholder needs are clearly defined, traceable, and successfully verified. The selected candidate will work with customers, program leadership, and technical teams, and support classified work, integration events, and technical reviews. On-site presence is required, and some program or customer travel may be needed.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a STEM discipline and 5 years of engineering experience, or a master’s degree in a STEM discipline and 3 years of engineering experience.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a DoD Secret clearance.
• Strong analytical, organizational, and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively on cross-functional teams.

Nice To Haves

• Experience on airborne ISR, mission systems, or tactical communications programs.
• Hands-on experience defining and managing requirements for complex, multidisciplinary systems involving software, hardware, networks, and integration.
• Experience with Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) approaches and tools.
• Familiarity with government or industry standards relevant to AISR&T, such as MIL-STDs, interface standards, and security or cybersecurity requirements.
• Familiarity with requirements management tools such as DOORS, DOORS Next, Jama, and Cameo/MBSE, and with standard requirements practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead and perform requirements engineering activities throughout the lifecycle, including decomposition, analysis, documentation, allocation, traceability, change management, verification, and validation.
• Work with customers, program leadership, and technical teams to capture and clarify operational concepts, use cases, and stakeholder needs.
• Develop and maintain system and subsystem requirements specifications, interface control documents, and related engineering artifacts.
• Establish and maintain bidirectional traceability between stakeholder requirements, system requirements, design elements, and test cases using requirements management tools.
• Support architecture and design efforts by ensuring requirements are well-structured, testable, and aligned with program constraints and objectives.
• Drive requirements baselining and change control, and assess the effects of requirement changes on cost, schedule, and technical performance.
• Collaborate with test and integration teams to define verification methods and ensure requirements are fully verified and validated.

Benefits

• Health insurance coverage
• Life and 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
• Relocation assistance may be available

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal