Senior ICD & Systems Engineer — Top Secret, On-Site

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

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance may be available

Job summary

Northrop Grumman in Rancho Bernardo, CA seeks a Principal Systems Engineer to own definition, documentation, update, and configuration control of ICDs across subsystems, interfacing with internal teams and external customers.

The role requires active Top Secret/SCI clearance, experience with DOORS, XML tooling, Jira, and MBSE concepts; on-site work only with IPTs across modernization programs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in a STEM discipline with 5+ years of related engineering experience; OR Master’s with 3 years; OR PhD with 1 year.
• Active Top Secret SCI clearance (with BI within 5 years or in Continuous Evaluation).
• Ability to obtain SAP/PAR and subsequent SAP PARs as required.
• Experience in DOORS, XML tooling (XSD editors, XML validators), Atlassian Tool Suite.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the ICD lead engineer, owning definition, documentation, update, and configuration control of system and subsystem ICDs.
• Develop and maintain interfaces between internal subsystems and external stakeholders, ensuring consistency with architecture.
• Coordinate interface working groups and technical interchange meetings to resolve issues.
• Define and decompose interfaces from system-level requirements using software and hardware discipline knowledge.
• Perform Systems Engineering activities: functional analysis, interface definition, verification.
• Work on Agile programs and Jira backlog refinement for interface tasks.
• Interface and present to program leadership and customers with status of ICD maturity, risks, and impacts.

Skills

ICD definition

Interface control

Jira

C/C++/Python

XML

MBSE

DOORS

XML tooling

Atlassian Tool Suite

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in a STEM discipline

Master’s Degree in a STEM discipline

PhD in a STEM discipline

Tools

DOORS

XML tooling

Atlassian Tool Suite

CAMEO

Job description

Northrop Grumman in Rancho Bernardo, CA seeks a Principal Systems Engineer to own definition, documentation, update, and configuration control of ICDs across subsystems, interfacing with internal teams and external customers.

The role requires active Top Secret/SCI clearance, experience with DOORS, XML tooling, Jira, and MBSE concepts; on-site work only with IPTs across modernization programs.