Sr Principal Systems Engineer

Northrop Grumman Northrop Grumman · Aerospace · San Diego, CA +1 · Systems/Architecture/Test

Northrop Grumman is seeking a Sr Principal Systems Engineer Requirements and Verification (R&V) Lead for the Global Hawk SEI Long Term Comms (LTC) program, supporting Foreign Military Sales (FMS). The role involves leading requirements development, verification, and selloff across the Systems Engineering V-Model, including supporting technical reviews, defining verification methodologies, and collaborating with cross-functional teams. Experience with DOORS, managing technical baselines, and functional configuration audits is required. A Secret clearance is mandatory.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead cross-Integrated Product Team (IPT) development of system and segment level requirements
  2. Lead Requirements and Verification efforts in support of Systems Engineering Technical Reviews (e.g. SRR, PDR, CDR)
  3. Define and implement requirement verification methodology and traceability
  4. Coordinate with cross-IPT Responsible Engineers and System Test Engineering to ensure integrated functions are ready for formal verification
  5. Perform requirements verification and selloff

Skills

Required

  • Bachelors degree in a STEM field or equivalent experience
  • 8 years of relevant military / professional experience
  • Secret or higher clearance
  • Systems Engineering Technical Reviews (SRR, PDR, CDR)
  • Technical Baselines (Functional and Allocated Baselines) management
  • Requirements verification and validation
  • Requirements Verification Plans (RVPs)
  • Requirements Verification Reports (RVRs)
  • verification sell-off
  • DOORS
  • Managing multiple levels of requirements
  • Collaborating across engineering disciplines
  • Functional Configuration Audit (FCA)

Nice to have

  • Experience with RQ-4 air vehicle, ground segment, sensor payloads, COMMS and support equipment
  • Experience with FMS customers
  • Experience with FMS operations
  • Experience with FMS architecture
  • Use Case generation
  • Segment-Level Systems Engineer
  • Interfaces ICDs
  • System Design
  • Maintaining requirements metrics and status
  • Active TS/SCI
  • MS degree in STEM field

What the JD emphasized

  • Secret or higher clearance
  • requirements verification and validation experience
  • DOORS experience
  • Functional Configuration Audit (FCA) experience