Principal / Senior Principal Systems Engineer

Northrop Grumman•Los Angeles, CA

9d•$114,000 - $213,400•Onsite

About The Position

Northrop Grumman Missions Systems in Woodland Hills, CA is seeking a skilled Systems Engineer with a strong understanding of requirements development, test case development, and verification and validation of those requirements. The ideal candidate should be proficient with requirements technical baseline management via IBM Rational DOORS, and act as the point of contact to the Chief Engineer and customer. This position may be filled as a Principal Systems Engineer or Senior Principal Systems Engineer.

Requirements

Bachelor's of Science degree in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) discipline with 5+ years of engineering experience; Master's Science degree in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) discipline with 3+ years of engineering experience; PhD degree in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) discipline with 1+ years of engineering experience (for Principal Systems Engineer)
Bachelor's of Science degree in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) discipline with 8+ years of engineering experience; Master's Science degree in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) discipline with 6+ years of engineering experience; PhD degree in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) discipline with 4+ years of engineering experience (for Senior Principal Systems Engineer)
Experience with IBM Rational DOORS
Technical baseline management
Writing and updating DOORS requirements
Decomposing and deriving requirements based on customer specifications
Software requirements development
Requirements development
Test Case development
Verification and Validation, i.e. experience running tests and documenting results
Demonstrated experience presenting to internal and external stakeholders
Demonstrated experience communicating technical information, e.g. requirements updates, test plans, integration test plans, etc.
Demonstrated Experience supporting test investigations and debugging efforts
Collaborating with cross-functional teams
U.S. Citizenship is required
Active/Current U.S. Government Secret clearance required at the time of application
Ability to work onsite full-time at Woodland Hills, CA

Nice To Haves

Experience with MIL-STD-1553
Experience with ARINC-429
Experience with Ethernet
Experience working in an Agile engineering team
Experience with JIRA
Systems Engineering experience on large, complex systems
Lab and system integration experience
Demonstrated experience with Model Based Systems Engineering and Cameo modeling (or equivalent)
Experience with ClearQuest / ClearCase

Responsibilities

Work with a broad customer base to identify unique requirements, flow the requirements into design documentation, and work with a diverse team to build and test those requirements.
Present to customers on the capabilities of current products, performance analyses, design information, and requirements verification methods.
Generate, review, and manage multiple requirements sets that cover all aspects of both performance and nonperformance including mechanical interfaces, electrical interfaces, data requirements, environmental requirements, and reliability.
Awareness and responsiveness to contract milestones and deliverables.
Lead an Agile team to ensure the designs are sufficient to meet the system requirements.
Work with various Agile teams to ensure all requirements are verified through inspection, analysis, demonstration, or test often by providing test and data reduction scripts.
Provide test directions to ensure production tests and troubleshooting tests are executed correctly and resulting data conforms to requirements.