Principal Systems Engineer - R10191065

Northrop Grumman; Colorado Springs (CO); On-site; USD 100,000 - 151,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in aerospace and defense is seeking a Principal Systems Engineer to join their team in Colorado Springs. The role involves developing and sustaining systems for critical missions, requiring a strong background in systems engineering, technical skills, and a collaborative spirit. Candidates should have a Bachelor's degree in engineering or a related field, along with relevant experience and an active Secret security clearance.

Benefits

Health insurance coverage

Life and disability insurance

Paid time off (PTO)

Annual bonuses

Qualifications

• 5 years of related experience with a Bachelor's or 3 years with a Master's.
• Active Secret security clearance required.
• Experience in deriving and developing technical requirements.

Responsibilities

• Develop and validate system requirements and track verification status.
• Perform system performance analysis using Matlab-based tools.
• Support development and evaluation of system design changes.

Skills

Communication

Problem Solving

Technical Writing

Systems Engineering

Education

Bachelors degree in engineering or related STEM field

Masters degree in engineering or related STEM field

Tools

IBM DOORS

RHEL

Matlab

Atlassian Jira

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Relocation Assistance: No relocation assistance available

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.

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.

At the heart of Defining Possible is our commitment to missions. In rapidly changing global security environments, Northrop Grumman brings informed insights and software-secure technology to enable strategic planning. We’re looking for innovators who can help us keep building on our wide portfolio of secure, affordable, integrated, and multi-domain systems and technologies that fuel those missions. By joining in our shared mission, we’ll support yours of expanding your personal network and developing skills, whether you are new to the field, or an industry thought leader. At Northrop Grumman, you’ll have the resources, support, and team to do some of the best work of your career.

As a systems engineer for the JTAGS program, you will play a pivotal role in developing and sustaining the program’s systems and networks used for development, integration, test, training, and operations. This is a mid-level role on the Systems Engineering integrated program team (IPT), and it primarily consists of systems engineering work at the individual contributor level. On JTAGS and at Northrop Grumman, we believe strongly in providing opportunities for career growth, exposure to new disciplines, and technical and soft skill development. As such, you will have opportunities to participate in cross-functional technical projects, contribute to engineering review boards, participate in work product reviews, identify and manage risk and opportunity, work on proposal estimates, and develop new plans and procedures and methods for technical execution. If you have a passion for systems engineering and supporting the critical mission of our warfighters, JTAGS can help you take your engineering career to the next level!

Role

In this role, you will work with a team of systems engineers to execute and support all aspects of the JTAGS systems engineering lifecycle. These activities include but are not limited to:

• Developing, verifying, and validating system, sub-system, and component-level requirements, including tracking of verification status and artifacts
• Performing system and software performance analysis using Matlab-based tools to extract data from text files and compute technical performance measures
• Tracking problem/deficiency reports and leading investigation of root cause & corrective action in response to customer priorities
• Performing model-based systems engineering (MBSE) to document system architecture and its internal and external interfaces
• Supporting development, evaluation, verification, and validation of system design changes, ranging from minor system fixes to large-scale system capability changes
• Identifying and evaluating new processes, tools, capabilities, and/or resources that can be utilized to improve JTAGS systems engineering activities
• Helping develop and maintain systems engineering team standard operating procedures (SOPs)

Skills and toolsets

To be successful, the following skills and toolsets are especially helpful:

• Ability to balance a variety of duties ranging from micro-level tasks to macro-level projects
• Can work well independently and in a team environment
• Is proactive and takes ownership of all aspects of one’s assigned task or project
• Is driven to produce high quality results and work products
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; can identify the most important aspects of a technical topic and communicate them to a non-technical audience
• Experience writing technical requirements, including what makes a “good” requirement, deriving or decomposing requirements from a higher level, and the different types of requirements to help form a complete specification for a system
• Familiarity with RHEL command line and using basic RHEL commands
• Experience with Matlab to write scripts and functions
• Experience with Atlassian Jira for documenting system issues and planning fix implementation

Notes

This role is full-time and in-person at the COCO-01 Northrop Grumman facility in a classified closed area environment. Duties may require infrequent travel to Ft. Carson in Colorado Springs, CO (about 15-20 mins drive from the NG facility). Travel is not anticipated for this role, but openness to potential future short-term CONUS and OCONUS travel assignments is preferred. Note: a non-expired passport is preferred but not required.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in engineering or related STEM field with 5 years of related experience OR Masters degree with 3 years of related experience.
• Active Secret security clearance
• Has experience using IBM DOORS for requirements management, including use of baselines to capture changes over time
• Has experience deriving, decomposing, and/or developing technical requirements
• Beginner to intermediate proficiency in RHEL OS command line; can independently and comfortably perform basic functions like navigation; file movement across networks, domains, or hosts; file reading/editing; changing permissions/ownership; etc.
• Has experience using Matlab; has successfully created or modified scripts or functions, and can troubleshoot malfunctioning code with little to no assistance
• Possesses beginner to intermediate understanding of the Systems Engineering “V”

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with satellite communications ground system(s) and/or missile warning system(s)
• Experience with technical writing, such as reports, briefings, plans, procedures, and diagrams
• Experience in developing, integrating, or testing a GUI-based software product on a RHEL OS
• Experience with Cameo Systems Modeler (or similar tools) and DoDAF for MBSE
• Experience in Python or bash scripting in Linux
• Working knowledge and/or experience with Atlassian Jira and/or Confluence

Salary Range: $100,300.00 - $150,500.00

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. In addition, Northrop Grumman provides a variety of benefits including 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.