Sentinel - Principal / Sr. Principal Systems Engineer - 18360

Northrop Grumman Northrop Grumman · Aerospace · Roy, UT +1 · Systems/Architecture/Test

This role is for a Principal/Sr. Principal Systems Engineer supporting the Sentinel Program at Northrop Grumman. The engineer will be involved in the full systems-engineering life cycle, including requirements definition, system architecture development using MBSE tools like Cameo, and supporting verification activities. The role requires a Secret or SAP clearance and experience with ICBMs or complex aerospace/defense systems.

What you'd actually do

  1. The successful candidate will support the team across the full systems-engineering life cycle, from use-case development through verification.
  2. You will collaborate closely with Integrated Product Team (IPT) counterparts to produce rigorous systems-engineering and design artifacts, working with technical teams and stakeholders to develop and mature a Weapon System design for a large-scale program.
  3. Your responsibilities will include defining, allocating, and tracing requirements; ensuring those requirements are accurately represented in the system model; performing functional decomposition and interface definition; and supporting verification activities.
  4. In addition, you will develop the system architecture using Cameo Enterprise Architecture, modeling behavioral, structural, and analytical aspects of the solution.
  5. You will contribute to ongoing requirements development, management, and analysis while establishing unifying modeling techniques, procedures, and processes that enable seamless model development, tool integration, and team collaboration.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor’s Degree in a STEM discipline
  • 5 years of related experience (Principal) or 8 years (Sr. Principal)
  • Active U.S. Government DoD Secret security clearance
  • Special Access Program (SAP) clearance
  • 2+ years’ experience in Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBMs) (Minuteman III (MMIII) or Sentinel) OR complex aerospace/defense systems
  • 2+ years’ experience in developing and executing Systems Engineering (SE) process governance documentation in a Department of Defense (DoD) Engineering and Manufacturing Development (EMD) phase
  • 2+ years’ experience in creating, updating, and maintaining requirements specifications in Dynamic Object-Oriented Requirements System (DOORS)
  • 2+ years’ experience on large scale / complex system development experience across multiple phases of a development program: preliminary design, detailed design, integration and test, verification and sell off, transition to production
  • 2+ years’ experience in creating, updating, and maintaining Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) products
  • 1+ year experience in team environments with technical leadership responsibilities

Nice to have

  • Experience using Microsoft Word, Excel, and Power Point
  • Experience resolving issues and providing technical support
  • Capable of working with minimal direction and in team environments
  • Familiar with SE events (e.g., Preliminary Design Review (PDR), Critical Design Review (CDR))

What the JD emphasized

  • Secret security clearance
  • SAP clearance