Principal/Senior Systems Engineer, GN&C Lead

Northrop Grumman; Manhattan Beach (CA); On-site; USD 98,000 - 184,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

9/80 work schedule

Paid time off

Job summary

Northrop Grumman Defense Systems seeks a Principal or Sr. Principal Systems Engineer to support the GN&C team on the Sentinel program. The role is located in Roy, UT or Manhattan Beach, CA, with a Secret clearance and DoD SAP eligibility.

You will develop and manage system artifacts, coordinate with design teams, and drive documentation through Cameo and DOORS, contributing to first flight design reviews, critical design reviews, and system qualification efforts.

Qualifications

• Experience across the systems engineering lifecycle, including requirements development and decomposition.
• Experience with requirements management tools (e.g., DOORS, or similar).
• Experience delivering technical presentations to customers or leadership.

Responsibilities

• Embed in GN&C department and program integrated product teams to provide Systems Engineering support for GN&C subsystem.
• Produce system engineering artifacts for design reviews and system qualification/verification.
• Coordinate with higher level system engineers and design engineering to baseline documentation and manage configuration.

Skills

Systems engineering

Requirements management

Technical presentations

Project leadership

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in STEM

Master's degree in STEM

PhD in STEM

Tools

DOORS

Jira

Confluence

Cameo Enterprise Architecture

MagicDraw

Job description

Northrop Grumman Defense Systems seeks a Principal or Sr. Principal Systems Engineer to support the GN&C team on the Sentinel program. The role is located in Roy, UT or Manhattan Beach, CA, with a Secret clearance and DoD SAP eligibility.

You will develop and manage system artifacts, coordinate with design teams, and drive documentation through Cameo and DOORS, contributing to first flight design reviews, critical design reviews, and system qualification efforts.