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Northrop Grumman · 14 hours ago

Space Mission Systems Design Engineer / Ground Responsible Systems Engineer - Principal / Sr. Principal Engineer Systems - R10219500-3

Aurora, CO

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$108K/yr - $171K/yr

5+ years exp

Northrop Grumman is a leading aerospace and defense technology company seeking a Principal or Sr Principal Systems Engineer to join their Mission Systems Engineering Integration and Test team. The role involves supporting requirements, verification, and other systems engineering deliverables across multiple Space RADAR Payload programs.

AerospaceData IntegrationManufacturingRemote SensingSecurity

Growth Opportunities

No H1B

Security Clearance Required

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Work across multiple Space RADAR Payload programs as MSEIT team member supporting requirements, verification, and other Systems Engineering CDRL deliveries

Help coordinate larger MSEIT team inputs into specifications, verification documents, CONOPS document, and technical description documents

Engage with Mission Partner to maintain system level specification and verification artifacts

Maintain segment level, e.g., ground and on-orbit segment, specification and associated verification artifacts

Work with lower-level SE organizations, e.g., payload and ground, to maintain element level specifications and verification artifacts

Maintain R&V management process and configuration management of MSEIT external deliveries and internal artifacts

Work with Configuration Management (CM) to establish, implement, and maintain engineering controls across the larger program

Work to establish and maintain lower-level IPT processes (ground/payload SE teams) that integrate into program processing

Some travel, approximately once per month, is required to Linthicum, MD, Morrisville, NC, and Aurora, CO

Qualification

Systems engineeringRequirements engineeringModelingSimulationVerificationValidationAgile developmentContinuous integrationContinuous deploymentPythonConfiguration managementIndirect leadershipChange managementDOORSSTKCameoMATLAB

Required

Principal Engineer: Bachelor's degree in STEM curriculum with 5 years relevant experience; 3 years with MS Degree; or PhD with 0 years of experience

Sr Principal Engineer: Bachelor's degree in STEM curriculum with 8 years relevant experience; 6 years with MS Degree; or PhD with 3 years of experience

Must have an active U.S. Government DoD Top Secret security clearance at time of application, current and within scope, with the ability to obtain and maintain SCI approval/access

The ability to travel approximately once per month, is required to Linthicum, MD, Morrisville, NC, and Aurora, CO

Systems engineering experience (e.g., requirements, mission engineering, architecture, modeling and simulation, integration and test, verification and validation)

Experience with deployed/operational ground systems for tasking space sensor payloads and processing space sensor payload data

Experience with R&V teams for Space programs

Experience working with application-based software development teams and Agile development processes

Familiarity with continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipeline and ground software verification and regression testing