Sr Principal Engineer Systems - AHT

Relocation & Clearance

Relocation assistance may be available. Active Secret security clearance required to start. Travel up to 10% of the time.

About the Role

Northrop Grumman Defense Systems (NGDS) is seeking a Sr Principal Systems Engineer to join the team. The preferred candidate will be responsible for developing, allocating, managing, and verifying system requirements, performing functional analysis, trade studies, and requirement allocation across a major defense program.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain system architectures using MBSE, including Cameo/SysML.
• Translate customer requirements into detailed system specifications.
• Perform functional analysis, trade studies, and requirement allocation.
• Develop, allocate, manage, and verify system requirements.
• Coordinate across software, hardware, specialty engineering, and program IPTs.
• Support system integration, verification and validation, and technical reviews.

Basic Qualifications

• Sr Principal Engineer Systems (Level 4): 8 years with a Bachelor's in Science; 6 years with a Master's; or 3 years with a PhD.
• Proficiency in Requirements Engineering and MBSE.
• Experience with Cameo or MagicDraw.
• Ability to understand system interface documentation, interconnect diagrams, and military standards.
• Experience with Requirements Impact Assessments, Change Requests, and Engineering Change Proposals.
• Active Secret Security Clearance.

Preferred Qualifications

• IAMD/C2 experience.
• Understanding of weapons, sensors, distributed computing, and command-and-control architecture.
• Understanding of how those systems affect requirements and interfaces.
• Systems engineering experience in Agile environments.
• Integrated Battle Command System (IBCS) / Link-16 experience.
• Familiarity with PATRIOT, Sentinel, G/ATOR, or similar weapons/sensor systems.

Pay

Primary level salary range: $135,800.00 – $203,600.00. Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay. Annual bonuses reward individual contributions and allow employees to share in company results. Employees in Vice President or Director positions may be eligible for Long Term Incentives.

Benefits

• Health insurance coverage.
• Life and disability insurance.
• Savings plan.
• Company-paid holidays.
• Paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business.

Schedule

Travel up to 10% of the time. The application period is estimated to be 20 days from the job posting date, though this may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates.