Staff Systems Engineer - Level 5
About The Position
Northrop Grumman Space Systems, Multi-Domain Operations, and Missile Defense Integration Business Unit is hiring a Staff Systems Engineer – Level 5 for an Internal Research and Development team. The position is on-site in Colorado Springs or Boulder, Colorado, and serves as the Systems Engineering Integration Lead. The role leads development and execution of the program’s system and software integration strategy, coordinating integration across components, a Software Integration Lab (SIL), multiple development teams, and the program cloud environment. It also develops model-based architecture artifacts and supports system and software integration, verification, validation, and formal test events. Candidates must hold an active U.S. Government Secret or higher clearance meeting the stated investigation or Continuous Evaluation conditions and be willing to travel up to 25% as needed.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in a STEM discipline and 12 years of related experience, or a master’s degree in STEM and 10 years of related experience, or a Ph.D. in STEM and 8 years of experience.
- Experience applying MBSE on complex aerospace, defense, or advanced technology efforts.
- Experience with SysML and UAF.
- Experience in system architecture, requirements development, interface analysis, and technical decomposition.
- Experience leading an Integrated Product Team of five or more, with prior system integration experience in labs and cloud environments relating to software and platforms.
- Previous verification and validation experience.
- Experience identifying and developing risks and driving risk mitigations to closure.
- Experience with Agile methodologies.
- Experience using DevOps tools such as Jira, Bitbucket, and Confluence.
- Ability and willingness to travel up to 25% to support business needs.
- Current active U.S. Government-issued Secret or higher security clearance, with a background investigation completed within the last six years or current enrollment in Continuous Evaluation.
Nice To Haves
- Advanced degree in Systems Engineering or a related technical field.
- Previous work on DoD military development and production programs.
- Ability to work independently with minimal direction and act as team lead for larger test efforts.
- Experience in research, advanced development, campaign, or early-stage concept work.
- Demonstrated ability to solve difficult technical problems with creativity, discipline, and urgency.
- Experience contributing across cross-functional teams without direct authority.
- Familiarity with digital engineering environments and model-based architecture methods.
Responsibilities
- Work with internal and external customers to define and document instrumentation, data requirements, and test planning, including acquisition, processing, and analysis, to satisfy test objectives.
- Create, validate, and verify test plans, procedures, and test reports in accordance with program standards.
- Lead the engineering team supporting software integration for formal test events.
- Provide regular status updates and flag blockers to upper leadership to drive timely resolution.
- Translate mission needs and technical objectives into clear, model-based architecture artifacts.
- Apply systems engineering processes—including requirements management, interface control, and verification and validation—to software, ensuring traceability and integration across the system architecture.
- Develop and maintain MBSE architecture products for advanced concept and campaign efforts.
- Use SysML and UAF to capture system structure, behavior, interfaces, and traceability.
- Decompose complex problems into actionable engineering products and modeling tasks.
- Partner with systems, software, and mission teams to align models with evolving technical direction.
- Contribute to modeling methods, architecture standards, and digital engineering practices.
- Communicate technical insights, assumptions, risks, and recommendations to engineering teams and leadership.
Benefits
- Health insurance coverage.
- Life and disability insurance.
- Savings plan.
- Company-paid holidays.
- Paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business.
- Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
