Principal Systems Engineer: Agile Leader, DoD Secret Clearance

Northrop Grumman

Oklahoma

On-site

USD 94,000 - 175,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

9/80 work schedule

Job summary

Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems is seeking a Principal/Sr. Principal Systems Engineer in Oklahoma City, OK.

The role blends individual contributor technical work with IPT collaboration, driving system requirements, interfaces, and verification across modernization and sustainment programs. You will engage across engineering disciplines, craft requirements, and support customers while operating in a multi-disciplinary team.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in a STEM discipline with 5+ years of related experience or Master’s with 3+ years or PhD with 1+ year.
Ability to obtain and maintain DoD Secret clearance
Ability to obtain and maintain SAP clearance
Experience in aerospace Systems Engineering including requirements decomposition, test planning, and validation
Experience with Scrum Team execution and/or Agile execution

Responsibilities

Facilitate Scrum events and improve Agile practices within the development lifecycle.
Develop requirements, allocations, verification/validation planning, and manage interfaces.
Write complex specifications, interface control documents, and engineering reports.
Coordinate with program, functional and subsystem leads.
Maintain Systems Engineering artifacts with configuration management.
Verify and validate Systems Engineering artifacts with stakeholders.
Communicate findings clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
Support cross-IPT development of system-level requirements and use cases.
Work with Release Train Engineers to develop and execute scrum plans and metrics.
Manage project execution rhythm, coordination, and reporting.
Utilize JIRA or similar tools for issue tracking and resolution.