Principal Space Payload Systems Engineer - TS Clearance

0090 CORP-Corporate Office; United States; On-site; USD 105,000 - 197,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

Savings plan

Paid holidays

Paid time off

Job summary

Northrop Grumman Space Systems is seeking a Principal or Sr Principal Systems Engineer to join the Eastern Region SEIT team. You will work on IS/space missions from concept through validation, handling requirements, architecture, modeling and test, and ensuring design integrity.

The role emphasizes space mission engineering, CONOPs, and cross-domain collaboration with stakeholders across programs, including DoD customers. On-site in the Eastern Region with competitive benefits and clearances.

Qualifications

• Bachelor Degree in STEM with 5 years relevant experience; 3 years with MS; or PhD with 0 years.
• Sr Principal: 8 years with Bachelor; 6 with MS; or PhD with 3 years.
• Active U.S. Government DoD Top Secret clearance required at time of application.
• Experience in requirements, mission engineering, architecture, modeling/simulation, integration/test, verification/validation.

Responsibilities

• Requirements analysis, derivation, and management
• Mission Engineering, modeling, and analysis
• Architecture and CONOPs development
• Systems modeling and simulation
• Functional analysis
• Timeline analysis
• Trade studies
• Technical planning
• Cost and risk analysis
• Interface definition
• System design
• System integration and test
• Verification and Validation planning and execution
• Supportability and effectiveness analyses for total systems

Skills

Systems engineering

Requirements analysis

Mission engineering

Architecture design

Education

Bachelor Degree in STEM

MS Degree in STEM

PhD in STEM

Tools

DOORS

STK

Cameo

Rhapsody

MATLAB

Python

Job description

Northrop Grumman Space Systems is seeking a Principal or Sr Principal Systems Engineer to join the Eastern Region SEIT team. You will work on IS/space missions from concept through validation, handling requirements, architecture, modeling and test, and ensuring design integrity.

The role emphasizes space mission engineering, CONOPs, and cross-domain collaboration with stakeholders across programs, including DoD customers. On-site in the Eastern Region with competitive benefits and clearances.