Principal Systems Engineer – Requirements & Verification

Northrop Grumman; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 114,000 - 171,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible schedule

Learning opportunities

Friendly team environment

Paid holidays & PTO

Job summary

Northrop Grumman Corp. (AU) in San Diego seeks a systems engineering professional for full-time, on-site work with Top Secret clearance and 25% travel. The role focuses on system definitions, requirements, and verification across multiple IPTs.

The position requires a STEM degree and active clearance. Relocation assistance may be available. You will support integration testing and milestone reviews (SRR, PDR, CDR) across complex hardware and software subsystems.

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science degree in a STEM field with 5 years of relevant military/professional experience, or Master’s in STEM with 3 years, or PhD with 1 year.
• Active U.S. Government Top Secret Clearance or higher (with CI or Continuous Evaluation).
• Ability to obtain and maintain SAP clearance within business needs.

Responsibilities

• Perform system definition activities for features and DRs, defining use cases, requirements, and feature acceptance criteria.
• Support cross-IPT development of system and segment level requirements and use cases.
• Implement verification methodology and traceability.
• Develop interface definitions and integration plans.
• Conduct formal integration and system-level testing of fully integrated subsystems.

Skills

Communication skills

Technical writing

Cross-disciplinary collaboration

Education

Bachelor of Science in STEM

Master of Science in STEM

PhD in STEM

Tools

DOORS

Atlassian Tool Suite

Job description

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: Yes

CLEARANCE TYPE: Top Secret

TRAVEL: Yes, 25% of the Time

Roles and Responsibilities

• Perform system definition activities for features and DRs, including by defining use cases, requirements, and feature acceptance criteria.
• Supporting cross-IPT development of system and segment level requirements and use cases.
• Implementing requirements verification methodology and traceability.
• Supporting development of interface definitions and integration plans.
• Conducting formal integration and support capabilities-based system level testing of fully integrated complex software and hardware subsystems.
• Evaluating integration and test anomalies and assist disposition and correction of issues as found.
• Performing requirements verification and selloff.
• Providing support to flight test and fielded assets.
• Coordinate with REs and System Test to ensure integrated functions are ready for the test team to formally verify.
• Leveraging your ability to work in a dynamic, fast paced environment, showing your action oriented, strong attention to detail, and effective communication skills.
• Using your experience supporting Systems Engineering Milestones SRR, PDR and CDR.
• Leveraging your knowledge of experience in full lifecycle of Systems Engineering, including requirements decomposition, test planning, requirements verification and requirements management.
• You will be required to work full-time, on-site at our facility. There is no remote / hybrid / telework available for this position. Travel up to 25% may be required.

Basic Qualifications

• Must have a Bachelor of Science degree in a STEM field and 5 years of relevant military / professional experience, OR a Master of Science degree in a STEM field 3 years of relevant military / professional experience, OR a PhD and 1 year of relevant military / professional experience.
• Must have an active U.S. Government Top Secret Clearance or higher (with a background investigation completed within the last 6 years or currently enrolled into Continuous Evaluation).
• Must have the ability to obtain and maintain Special Access Program (SAP) clearance, within a reasonable amount of time as determined by business needs.

Preferred Qualifications

• Current SAP clearance to program.
• Demonstrated communication and technical writing skills.
• Experience in ICD development and integration.
• Experience in System Test.
• Proven ability to brief technical presentations to stakeholders.
• Experience with multiple disciplines across Systems Engineering, incl. requirements, integration, technical configuration management (CM or Technical Baseline), cyber.
• Experience in DOORS & Atlassian Tool Suite.
• Experience with Agile Design Methodology.

Benefits

Flexible work arrangements, 9/80 work schedule with every other Friday off.

Phenomenal learning opportunities, exposure to a wide variety of projects and customers.

Friendly team environment.

Primary Level Salary Range: $114,000.00 - $171,000.00.

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.

EEO Statement

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.