Sentinel - Staff Systems Engineer - 18053

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

Staff Systems Engineer role at Northrop Grumman supporting the Sentinel program's Flight Test Design Review Campaign. Responsibilities include technical planning, developing tools for action item tracking, collaborating with program IPTs, conducting pre-review assessments, briefing leadership and customers, and managing risks. Requires a Bachelor's degree in STEM with significant systems engineering experience, including SETR execution, complex system analysis, and requirements management. Active DoD Secret Clearance and ability to obtain SAP approval are mandatory.

What you'd actually do

  1. Perform technical planning, support design reviews, develop tools to communicate and track action items internally and with our customer.
  2. Collaborate with program IPT counterparts supporting systems engineering and design artifacts.
  3. Work with both technical teams and stakeholders to develop and mature content both internally and externally.
  4. Conduct pre-review assessments to ensure readiness prior to formal design reviews.
  5. Brief program leadership, customers, and stakeholders at both program and technical reviews.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor’s degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM)
  • 12 years of relevant experience (or 10 with Master's, 8 with PhD)
  • US Citizen
  • Active DoD Secret Clearance
  • Ability to obtain and maintain SAP approval
  • 8+ years experience in Systems Engineering
  • 5+ years of experience executing Systems Engineering Technical Reviews (SETR) on large scale complex systems
  • 5+ years experience analyzing large complex systems
  • 5+ years experience in requirements management

Nice to have

  • ICBM experience
  • Flight test experience on missile systems
  • Experience with the Systems Engineering V-model
  • Experience with requirements management tools such as DOORS
  • Experience with model based systems engineering (MBSE)
  • Experience with hardware and/or software design

What the JD emphasized

  • Secret Clearance
  • SAP approval
  • Systems Engineering
  • Systems Engineering Technical Reviews (SETR)
  • requirements management