Principal / Senior Principal Systems Engineer

Northrop Grumman Corporation; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 114,000 - 213,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Life and disability insurance

PTO and holidays

Job summary

Northrop Grumman Mission Systems in Woodland Hills, CA seeks a Systems Engineer with strong requirements development and verification skills. The role emphasizes DOORS-based baseline management and acting as a liaison to the Chief Engineer and customer.

Openings include Principal and Senior Principal levels; on-site work and U.S. citizenship required, with a clear focus on developing robust system engineering processes and providing test directions and data analysis.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in STEM with 5+ years' engineering experience for Principal role; 8+ years for Senior Principal.
• Experience with DOORS for baselining and requirements management.
• Strong systems engineering activities including software requirements, test case development, and validation.

Responsibilities

• Identify unique requirements from broad customer base and translate into design documentation.
• Present to customers on capabilities, analyses, and verification methods.
• Generate and manage multiple requirements sets covering performance, interfaces, and data requirements.
• Lead Agile teams to ensure designs meet system requirements.
• Coordinate test directions and data reduction to verify conformance.

Skills

Technical baseline management

Requirements development

System Engineering

Test Case development

Verification & Validation

Oral & written communication

Education

B.S. in STEM

M.S. in STEM

Ph.D. in STEM

Tools

IBM Rational DOORS

Job description

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE

Relocation assistance may be available.

CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: Yes

CLEARANCE TYPE: Secret

TRAVEL: Yes, 10% of the Time

DESCRIPTION

At Northrop Grumman, our employees have incredible opportunities to work on revolutionary systems that impact people's lives around the world today, and for generations to come. Our pioneering and inventive spirit has enabled us to be at the forefront of many technological advancements in our nation's history - from the first flight across the Atlantic Ocean, to stealth bombers, to landing on the moon. We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage and a pioneering spirit to join forces to invent the future, and have fun along the way. Our culture thrives on intellectual curiosity, cognitive diversity and bringing your whole self to work — and we have an insatiable drive to do what others think is impossible. Our employees are not only part of history, they're making history.

We at Northrop Grumman Missions Systems in Woodland Hills, CA are seeking a skilled Systems Engineer with a strong understanding of requirements development, test case development, and verification and validation of those requirements. The ideal candidate should be proficient with requirements technical baseline management via IBM Rational DOORS, and act as the point of contact to the Chief Engineer and customer.

This position may be filled as a Principal Systems Engineer or Senior Principal Systems Engineer.

Key Responsibilities

• Work with a broad customer base to identify unique requirements, flow the requirements into design documentation, and work with a diverse team to build and test those requirements.
• Present to customers on the capabilities of current products, performance analyses, design information, and requirements verification methods.
• Generate, review, and manage multiple requirements sets that cover all aspects of both performance and nonperformance including mechanical interfaces, electrical interfaces, data requirements, environmental requirements, and reliability.
• Awareness and responsiveness to contract milestones and deliverables.
• Lead an Agile team to ensure the designs are sufficient to meet the system requirements.
• Work with various Agile teams to ensure all requirements are verified through inspection, analysis, demonstration, or test often by providing test and data reduction scripts.
• Provide test directions to ensure production tests and troubleshooting tests are executed correctly and resulting data conforms to requirements.

Basic Qualifications – Principal Systems Engineer

• Bachelor's of Science degree in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) discipline with 5+ years of engineering experience;
• Master's Science degree in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) discipline with 3+ years of engineering experience;
• PhD degree in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) discipline with 1+ years of engineering experience; Experience with IBM Rational DOORS
• Demonstrated success with: Technical baseline management Writing and updating DOORS requirements Decomposing and deriving requirements based on customer specifications Experience in System Engineering activities such as: Software requirements development Requirements development Test Case development Verification and Validation, i.e. experience running tests and documenting results Excellent written and oral communication skills including: Demonstrated experience presenting to internal and external stakeholders Demonstrated experience communicating technical information, e.g. requirements updates, test plans, integration test plans, etc. Demonstrated Experience supporting test investigations and debugging efforts Collaborating with cross-functional teams U.S. Citizenship is required Active/Current U.S. Government Secret clearance required at the time of application Ability to work onsite full-time at Woodland Hills, CA

Basic Qualifications – Senior Principal Systems Engineer

• Bachelor's of Science degree in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) discipline with 8+ years of engineering experience;
• Master's Science degree in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) discipline with 6+ years of engineering experience;
• PhD degree in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) discipline with 4+ years of engineering experience; Experience with IBM Rational DOORS
• Demonstrated success with: Technical baseline management Writing and updating DOORS requirements Decomposing and deriving requirements based on customer specifications Experience in System Engineering activities such as: Software requirements development Requirements development Test Case development Verification and Validation, i.e. experience running tests and documenting results Excellent written and oral communication skills including: Demonstrated experience presenting to internal and external stakeholders Demonstrated experience communicating technical information, e.g. requirements updates, test plans, integration test plans, etc. Demonstrated Experience supporting test investigations and debugging efforts Collaborating with cross-functional teams U.S. Citizenship is required Active/Current U.S. Government Secret clearance required at the time of application Ability to work onsite full-time at Woodland Hills, CA

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with the following interfaces: MIL-STD-1553
• Experience with ARINC-429
• Experience with Ethernet
• Experience working in an Agile engineering team
• Experience with JIRA
• Systems Engineering experience on large, complex systems Lab and system integration experience Demonstrated experience with Model Based Systems Engineering and Cameo modeling (or equivalent)
• Experience with ClearQuest / ClearCase

Salary

• Primary Level Salary Range: $114,000.00 - $171,000.00
• Secondary Level Salary Range: $142,200.00 - $213,400.00

The above salary range represents a general guideline; however, Northrop Grumman considers a number of factors when determining base salary offers such as the scope and responsibilities of the position and the candidate's experience, education, skills and current market conditions. Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay. Annual bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions as well as allow employees to share in company results. Employees in Vice President or Director positions may be eligible for Long Term Incentives.

Benefits

• Health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, savings plan, Company paid holidays and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business.

The application period for the job is estimated to be 20 days from the job posting date. However, this timeline may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates.

Northrop Grumman is an Equal Opportunity Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class. For our complete EEO and pay transparency statement, please visit http://www.northropgrumman.com/EEO. U.S. Citizenship is required for all positions with a government clearance and certain other restricted positions.

We are a pioneering company. With careers across all areas: air, cyber, land, sea and space – our 90,000 employees work as one to defend and define the future.

Northrop Grumman careers and internships are as varied as your interests, with a lifetime of potential that will give you every opportunity to do your best work. Working together with people from many backgrounds, personal passions and disciplines, we share a drive to push the boundaries of science, technology and engineering to meet the ever evolving needs of our customers worldwide.