Sentinel - Systems Engineer - Stpa - Sec - 10638-1

Northrop Grumman Northrop Grumman · Aerospace · Huntsville, AL +1 · Systems/Architecture/Test

Northrop Grumman is hiring a Systems Engineer for the Sentinel Program, focusing on System-Theoretic Process Analysis for Security (STPA-Sec). This role involves applying traditional Systems Engineering principles with a holistic system analysis approach to identify security, safety, and availability features using STPA guidelines, industry security frameworks (NIST, ISO, NISPOM), and Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE). Responsibilities include generating requirements, decomposition strategies, mitigations, analyzing threats and vulnerabilities, and leading working groups. Requires an active Secret security clearance.

What you'd actually do

  1. You will be generating structured requirements, decomposition strategies, and mitigations within STPA principles
  2. Execute combined traditional Systems Engineering principles, with a holistic system analyses approach in order to uncover any potential safety, security, or availability features using the existing STPA handbook guidelines, and Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) workspace
  3. Ability to understand and decompose systems to identify causal scenarios; aptitude to construct control structures and identify unsafe control actions
  4. Assessment and analysis of threats, vulnerabilities, and risk for identified mission-critical functions and critical components
  5. Lead and execute completion Statement of Work requirements, Program Milestone Exit Criteria, and program maturity commitments

Skills

Required

  • Systems Engineering
  • STPA principles
  • NIST
  • ISO
  • NISPOM
  • Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE)
  • Systems Security Engineering
  • Communication skills
  • Analytical methodologies
  • Schedule adherence

Nice to have

  • Top-Secret clearance with SAP Access
  • ICBM Systems experience
  • Program Protection principles
  • Cybersecurity
  • Counterfeit Awareness
  • Anti-Tamper
  • HW/SW Assurance
  • OPSEC

What the JD emphasized

  • Active U.S. Government Secret Security Clearance