Senior Principal CORE Systems Engineer
About The Position
Northrop Grumman Mission Systems’ Engineering and Sciences Baltimore and Partnered Sites Division is seeking a Senior Principal CORE Systems Engineer to join its Foundational Systems Engineering Team. The position is 100% on-site and supports programs developing sensors for current and next-generation air and sea platforms, including a Distributed Systems program in the Mission Next portfolio. The engineer will support project leadership in shaping the Ground Control Segment (GCS) system architecture. This includes ensuring requirements and interfaces are well defined, traceable, and aligned with program objectives, and integrating requirements, behaviors, interfaces, and constraints into a coherent model supporting mission analysis, system design, and verification and validation planning. The position is contingent on successful transfer of an active U.S. Government Secret clearance.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree and 8 years of experience, Master’s degree and 6 years of experience, or PhD and 4 years of experience in a STEM or related technical field; an additional 4 years of experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
- U.S. citizenship.
- Current and active U.S. Government Secret clearance.
- Proficiency in systems engineering, particularly requirements development, decomposition, and architecture definition for manned or unmanned aircraft systems.
- Experience working with multidisciplinary teams.
- Proficiency with model-based systems engineering design methods, including requirements analysis and flow-down, specification derivation, functional decomposition, traceability, and interface control documentation.
- Experience participating in major systems reviews, including SRR, SFR, PDR, and CDR.
- Proficiency with systems engineering tools such as DOORS, Cameo, MATLAB, or comparable software.
Nice To Haves
- Advanced degree in a STEM or related technical field.
- Active U.S. Government Top Secret clearance or higher, with SAP access and/or SCI eligibility.
- Experience developing architecture, CONOPS, and use cases using MBSE methodologies.
- Experience supporting mission planning or ground systems, including defining operational concepts, workflows, or interfaces between air vehicles and ground mission systems.
- Experience with mission system requirements, including performance, avionics, mission, or integration requirements, and capturing them in an MBSE/Cameo model.
- Exposure to mission systems and communications architectures, including data links, networks, and interfaces between onboard systems, ground segments, and external assets.
- Experience communicating and presenting complex technical concepts to project, program, and company management, other technical managers, and customers.
- Experience supporting an agile development team.
Responsibilities
- Support project leadership in shaping the Ground Control Segment system architecture and ensuring requirements and interfaces are well defined, traceable, and aligned with program objectives.
- Develop, decompose, allocate, and trace requirements in Cameo, translating customer and stakeholder needs into system, segment, and subsystem requirements.
- Develop and maintain system architectures using MBSE methods, including use case, activity, sequence, block definition, and internal block diagrams.
- Integrate requirements, behaviors, interfaces, and constraints into a model supporting mission analysis, system design, and verification and validation planning.
- Support preparation, execution, and resolution of major system design reviews, including PDR, CDR, SVR, TRR, PCAs, and FCAs.
- Ensure system technical compliance with the program Statement of Work and system requirements.
Benefits
- Health plan and health insurance coverage
- Savings plan
- Paid time off for vacation and/or personal business
- Company-paid holidays
- Education assistance
- Training and development
- 9/80 work schedule where available
- Life and disability insurance
- Potential eligibility for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus, depending on position
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
