Principal Systems Engineer / Sr Principal Systems Engineer

Northrop Grumman Northrop Grumman · Aerospace · Oklahoma City, OK +1 · Systems/Architecture/Test

This role is for a Principal/Sr. Principal Systems Engineer at Northrop Grumman, focusing on managing the technical baseline and coordinating with diverse engineering teams for complex defense systems. The position requires a strong understanding of the full development life-cycle, system thinking, and leadership skills. A DoD Secret clearance and the ability to obtain SAP clearance are mandatory.

What you'd actually do

  1. coordination and collaboration with diverse engineering design teams to provide imaginative, technical solutions to a wide range of difficult problems in establishing and managing the technical baseline in support of review milestones.
  2. executing tasks in system engineering functions.
  3. systems thinking and working knowledge of the full development life-cycle processes that acknowledge technical, schedule, and cost constraints.
  4. strong leadership characteristics in coordinating with multiple teams and managing tasks.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor of Science degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) discipline
  • 5 years of experience (Principal) or 8 years of experience (Sr. Principal)
  • active DoD Secret clearance
  • ability to obtain and maintain Special Access Program (SAP) clearance

Nice to have

  • Engineering degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or Engineering Physics
  • Master's Degree
  • Experience working on military aircraft / spacecraft systems.
  • Experience in developing, managing, and decomposing requirements.
  • Experience in system architecture, CONOPs, or model-based system engineering.
  • Experience in ICD development and integration
  • Demonstrated communication and technical writing skills.
  • Proven ability to brief technical presentations to stakeholders.
  • MBSE and Agile Systems Engineering Experience.
  • Experience with DOORS, Confluence, and JIRA
  • Scripting experience
  • Experience as Scrum Master and/or scrum team member
  • Experience in Sacled Agile Framework (SAFe)

What the JD emphasized

  • DoD Secret clearance
  • Special Access Program (SAP) clearance