Principal/Sr. Principal Engineer Systems - SEIT I&T

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 - from the first flight across the Atlantic Ocean, to stealth bombers, to landing on the moon. 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 — and we have an insatiable drive to do what others think is impossible. Our employees are not only part of history, but they’re also making history.

The Payload and Ground Systems organization within the Northrop Grumman Space Systems pushes the boundaries of innovation, redefines engineering capabilities, and drives advances in various sciences. Our team is chartered with providing the skills, innovative technologies to develop, design, produce and sustain optimized product lines across the sector while providing a decisive advantage to the warfighter. Come be a part of our mission.

Northrop Grumman Space Systems (NGPS) seeks to fill a Principal Systems Engineer/Senior Principal Systems Engineer in the Payload and Ground Systems Division Engineering organization supporting Integrated National Systems (INS) Business Unit (BU) to support a new Ground program.  This position can be filled at our Morrisville, NC, Fairfax, VA, or Linthicum, MD offices.

What you’ll get to do?

 As a Systems Engineer on this team, you will support a team of engineers to define, develop, decompose, analyze, verify, and validate requirements for a Ground Segment. In this role, you will be supporting program leadership and the customer to define and maintain the technical baseline. Ultimately, you will support the program through maturity and milestones to achieve the mission, ensuring everything is synchronized.  

We have multiple Systems Engineering positions across the Ground program, on contract to deliver the ground segment for a restricted space program. This work will span command and control, mission planning and scheduling, mission processing, and system infrastructure. We have anticipated future growth to deliver additional ground capabilities. 

This role is for one of two SEIT I&T on the program where the focus is to lead Ground integration & test efforts with the Mission SEIT organization (external interfaces, mission ops, etc.).

The successful candidate will have broad Systems Engineering lifecycle knowledge, with the ability to digest changes and present them to the technical and management teams in concise briefings.  The candidate is expected to operate independently with little oversight in a dynamic environment, to be highly self-motivated, reporting information to IPT leads, and the customer. The individual is expected to handle diverse assignments with efficiency, finding unique solutions and working in a very collaborative and fast paced environment that continues to grow. Experience with system modeling is preferred. 

This requisition may be filled at a higher job grade based on the qualifications listed below.

This requisition may be filled as either a Principal Systems Engineer, or a Senior Principal Systems Engineer.

Basic Qualifications for Principal Systems Engineer:

• 5 years of relevant experience with a Bachelor of Science degree in a STEM discipline; 3 years of relevant experience with a Masters' degree; 0 years of experience with a PhD

• Working knowledge of systems engineering principles and processes

• Demonstrated experience quickly learning new concepts and approaches

• Active DoD Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility and willing to submit to a polygraph

• TS/SCI clearance crossover is required prior to start date.

Basic Qualifications for Senior Principal Systems Engineer:

• 9 years of relevant experience with a Bachelor of Science degree in a STEM discipline; 7 years of relevant experience with a Masters' degree; 4 years of experience with a PhD

• Working knowledge of systems engineering principles and processes

• Demonstrated experience quickly learning new concepts and approaches.

• Active DoD Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility and willing to submit to a polygraph

• TS/SCI clearance crossover is required prior to start date.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Active TS/SCI clearance

• Polygraph (CI or FSP)

• Familiarity with space vehicle ground segment design

• Experience with Agile development

• Experience with Cameo

• Effectively communicate and present to project and program management, other technical managers, and customers

• Familiarity and direct experience with Model-Based Systems Engineering languages (SysML/UML) and concepts

• Excellent technical writing and team building skills

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