Principal/Sr. Principal Systems Engineer

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, they're making history.

Northrop Grumman Mission Systems is a trusted provider of mission-enabling solutions for global security.  Our Engineering and Sciences (E&S) organization 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!

 

We are looking for you to join our team as a Principal or Senior Principal System Engineer based out of San Jose, CA.

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 the ground segment of a satellite system. In addition:

• Support architecture design that stems from these system requirements, decomposed across multiple levels, aimed to represent the ground capabilities, that have a major impact on the mission.

• Interact with the customer, subcontractors, Software, Hardware, Operations, Integration and Test, higher level systems engineering and integration teams, as well as program and project leadership to define and maintain the technical baseline.

• Help drive the program through maturity and milestones to achieve the mission, ensuring everything is synchronized.

This role may be filled as a Principal or Senior Principal System Engineer based on the qualifications listed below.

Basic Qualifications for a 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

• Active DoD Top Secret clearance with the ability to obtain SCI access or active SCI access

• Proposal/Conops/Architecture Design

• Requirements Dev: IBM Rationale Tools (DOORS/Clearquest) experience, ability to write/review requirements to define capabilities across subsystems

• Software/Hardware Experience: particularly in support of interface definition and capability development/integration

• Integration & Test Experience: particularly in support of Test Plan reviews, tool/script validation, dry runs, formal tests, etc.

• Verification & Validation Experience: particularly in support of formal verification events (Run for Record), engineering summary development and customer sell-off

• Experience with Atlassian Tool Suite (Jira, Confluence), MS Office Suite

• Experience with at least ONE of the following:

–Understand/Develop wire frames, GUI widgets and other user interface/experience components/concepts (e.g. alarm monitoring, confirmation dialogs/windows, subsystem interfacing, etc)

–Similar experience to HCI/UX, command/control (C2), command generation/execution, logging/archiving, SubK/customer interfacing, etc.

–Distributed operations exposure: Cloud based architecture, file syncing, data point definition for situational awareness, etc

–Mathematical algorithm development, extensive Matlab/Simulink exposure, HW/SW component interfacing and modeling/simulation

Basic Qualifications for a 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 relevant experience with a PhD

• Active DoD Top Secret clearance with the ability to obtain SCI access or active SCI access

• Proposal/Conops/Architecture Design

• Requirements Dev: IBM Rationale Tools (DOORS/Clearquest) experience, ability to write/review requirements to define capabilities across subsystems

• Software/Hardware Experience: particularly in support of interface definition and capability development/integration

• Integration & Test Experience: particularly in support of TP reviews, tool/script validation, dry runs, formal tests, etc.

• Verification & Validation Experience: particularly in support of formal verification events (RFR), engineering summary development and customer sell-off

• Experience with Atlassian Tool Suite (Jira, Confluence), MS Office Suite

• Experience with at least ONE of the following:

–Understand/Develop wire frames, GUI widgets and other user interface/experience components/concepts (e.g. alarm monitoring, confirmation dialogs/windows, subsystem interfacing, etc)–Similar experience to HCI/UX, command/control (C2), command generation/execution, logging/archiving, SubK/customer interfacing, etc.–Distributed operations exposure: Cloud based architecture, file syncing, data point definition for situational awareness, etc–Mathematical algorithm development, extensive Matlab/Simulink exposure, HW/SW component interfacing and modeling/simulation

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Agile development as a product owner

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

• Direct experience using the DOORS Requirements Management Database

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

• Excellent technical writing and team building skills

• Deep technical knowledge in a particular area where your skills can be leveraged

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Salary Range: $104,600 USD - $157,000 USD

Salary Range 2: $129,700 USD - $194,500 USD

Employees may be eligible for 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. In addition, Northrop Grumman provides a variety of benefits including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, savings plan, Company paid holidays and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business.

The health and safety of our employees and their families is a top priority. The company encourages employees to remain up-to-date on their COVID-19 vaccinations. U.S. Northrop Grumman employees may be required, in the future, to be vaccinated or have an approved disability/medical or religious accommodation, pursuant to future court decisions and/or government action on the currently stayed federal contractor vaccine mandate under Executive Order 14042 https://www.saferfederalworkforce.gov/contractors/.

Northrop Grumman is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class. For our complete EEO/AA and Pay Transparency statement, please visit http://www.northropgrumman.com/EEO. U.S. Citizenship is required for most positions.