Systems Engineer - Level 3/4 (AHT)

Relocation assistance may be available. Active SCI clearance required at start. Travel: 25% of the time.

About the role

At Northrop Grumman, our employees have incredible opportunities to work on revolutionary systems that impact people's lives around the world today, and for generations to come. Our pioneering and inventive spirit has enabled us to be at the forefront of many technological advancements in our nation's history. We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage, and a pioneering spirit to join forces to invent the future, and have fun along the way. Our culture thrives on intellectual curiosity, cognitive diversity, and bringing your whole self to work.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the systems engineering focal point for the program across multiple phases of the program lifecycle.
• Own the system technical baseline, ensuring consistency between CONOPS, requirements, design, and test.
• Coordinate across multi-disciplined teams (systems, software, hardware, test, operations) to resolve issues and drive decisions.
• Capture mission threads, user workflows, and operational constraints and translate them into requirements and design.
• Lead requirements development with customers and stakeholders; clarify and negotiate technical needs and constraints.
• Develop integration strategies, V&V plans, and detailed test plans and procedures at system and subsystem levels.
• Use modeling and simulation, analytical tools, and MBSE artifacts to support design decisions and trade studies.
• Identify technical risks and opportunities; develop and track mitigation plans.
• Present technical approaches, status, and results to internal leadership and external customers.
• Support proposals, basis-of-estimate development, and technical volumes for new business or contract modifications.

Requirements

Basic Qualifications for Level 3

• Bachelor’s degree in a STEM discipline with 5 years of relevant experience – OR – Master’s degree with 3 years of relevant experience – OR – PhD with 1 year of relevant experience.
• Active Top Secret/SCI clearance required at time of application.
• Experience with system requirements and interface control documents (ICDs).
• Ability to perform requirements analysis, allocation, and traceability from high-level needs down to components and services.
• Ability to specify and validate requirements related to build, deployment, and rollback processes in a cloud environment.
• Ability to create clear technical documentation (requirements, interface specs, sequence diagrams, data flow diagrams).
• Familiarity with reading, creating, and interpreting CAMEO/DOORS/MBSE models.

Basic Qualifications for Level 4

• Bachelor’s degree in a STEM discipline with 8 years of relevant experience – OR – Master’s degree with 6 years of relevant experience – OR – PhD with 4 years of relevant experience.
• Active Top Secret/SCI clearance required at time of application.
• Experience with system requirements and interface control documents (ICDs).
• Ability to perform requirements analysis, allocation, and traceability from high-level needs down to components and services.
• Ability to specify and validate requirements related to build, deployment, and rollback processes in a cloud environment.
• Ability to create clear technical documentation (requirements, interface specs, sequence diagrams, data flow diagrams).
• Familiarity with reading, creating, and interpreting CAMEO/DOORS/MBSE models.

Skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in systems engineering for distributed systems or cloud-native applications.
• Familiarity with network security aspects relevant to container and cloud deployments (TLS, certificates, secrets management).
• Familiarity with service meshes (e.g., Istio, Linkerd) in Kubernetes environments.
• Hands-on experience with:
  • Requirements management tools (e.g., DOORS, Jama, JIRA/Confluence-based flows).
  • Modeling and simulation or MBSE tools (e.g., SysML, Cameo, Rhapsody, MATLAB/Simulink).
  • Test automation, test management tools, or lab integration environments.
• Strong customer interaction and presentation skills.
• Experience interfacing with government or prime customers, including participation in design and test reviews (SRR, PDR, CDR, TRR, etc.).
• Certification(s) in Systems Engineering (e.g., INCOSE ASEP/CSEP/ESEP) or Project Management (e.g., PMP) are a plus.

Pay

Primary Level Salary Range: $114,000.00 - $171,000.00

Secondary Level Salary Range: $142,200.00 - $213,400.00

The above salary range represents a general guideline; however, Northrop Grumman considers a number of factors when determining base salary offers such as the scope and responsibilities of the position and the candidate's experience, education, skills, and current market conditions. Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay. Annual bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions as well as 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