Lead Systems Engineer, Propulsion & MBSE

Northrop Grumman; Town of Florida (NY); On-site; USD 104,000 - 155,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Health insurance

Paid time off

Overtime eligibility

Discretionary bonus

Job summary

Northrop Grumman is seeking a Principal Engineer Systems – Level 3 to join our Propulsion Systems and Controls (PS&C) team at Palm Beach Gardens, FL and Elkton, MD. You will help develop systems architecture for propulsion hardware, including valves, solid rocket motors, and related space mission hardware, applying MBSE practices.

You will lead cross‑discipline collaboration, produce key artifacts, plan tests, manage requirements traceability, and participate in technical reviews.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or STEM-related discipline with at least 5 years of relevant experience, or master’s degree with at least 3 years of experience.
• Experience performing systems engineering activities on technical programs (requirements, design, integration, or test).
• Experience with requirements development and management, including writing clear, testable requirements and maintaining a requirements baseline.
• Experience establishing and maintaining requirements traceability (e.g., between stakeholder needs, system requirements, lower-level requirements, design, and test).
• Familiarity with MBSE environment (SysML preferred) using tools such as Cameo/MagicDraw, Rhapsody, or similar, and integrating models with requirements (e.g., DOORS).
• Experience supporting or leading technical reviews (e.g., SRR, PDR, CDR) or equivalent design/requirements reviews.
• Experience developing or contributing to verification and validation (V&V) plans, including mapping requirements to verification methods (test, analysis, inspection, demonstration).
• Demonstrated ability to work across multi-disciplinary engineering teams to resolve requirements and design issues.
• Experience with at least one requirements management tool (e.g., DOORS, Jama, JIRA, or similar).
• Demonstrated problem-solving and analytical skills, including ability to identify risks/issues and propose mitigations.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to clearly document technical information and present to stakeholders.
• Ability to obtain a secret clearance; US citizenship is a pre-requisite.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and coordination between engineering disciplines, program management, and external stakeholders to ensure an integrated solution.
• Determine systems engineering tasks required for project planning and execution, communicate milestones and need dates to program leads.
• Produce and maintain key systems engineering artifacts (Requirements specifications, ICDs, V&V matrices, architecture, and verification reports) in a model-based systems engineering environment (CAMEO).
• Define and plan testing activities in conjunction with propulsion engineering, including propulsion tests at Elkton, Ronkonkoma, or external ranges.
• Define and maintain a requirements decomposition strategy across subsystems and disciplines.
• Lead requirements and architecture reviews (PDR, CDR-level artifacts) to ensure completeness, consistency, feasibility, and testability.
• Lead Risk and Opportunity meetings on behalf of technical and programmatic team.
• Demonstrate excellent written and verbal communication skills and build consensus across teams.

Skills

MBSE

SysML

Requirements development

V&V planning

Cross-functional leadership

Systems engineering

Technical reviews

Problem solving

Documentation

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering or STEM-related discipline

Master’s degree in engineering

Tools

Cameo/MagicDraw

Rhapsody

DOORS

Jama

JIRA

Job description

Northrop Grumman is seeking a Principal Engineer Systems – Level 3 to join our Propulsion Systems and Controls (PS&C) team at Palm Beach Gardens, FL and Elkton, MD. You will help develop systems architecture for propulsion hardware, including valves, solid rocket motors, and related space mission hardware, applying MBSE practices.

You will lead cross‑discipline collaboration, produce key artifacts, plan tests, manage requirements traceability, and participate in technical reviews.