Senior Principal Human Factors Engineer: MBSE Lead

0090 CORP-Corporate Office; Utah; On-site; USD 122,800 - 184,200; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental & Vision

401(k)

Educational Assistance

Life Insurance

Paid Time Off

Wellness Resources

Employee Discounts

Job summary

Northrop Grumman in Roy, Utah is seeking a Sr Principal Human Factors Engineer (T04) to shape system architecture using MBSE and to drive human factors requirements across the system. You will deliver HF trade studies, verification plans, and ICDs while collaborating with cross‑functional teams.

Role requires TS clearance, strong communication with customers, and mentoring of junior engineers in MBSE modeling and verification best practices. Relocation assistance may be available.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in a STEM discipline with 8 years related experience, or master’s degree with 6 years, or PhD with 4 years.
• U.S. citizenship with an active U.S. Government Top Secret clearance (investigation date within the last 6 years).
• Ability to obtain and maintain Special Access Program (SAP) approval.
• 3+ years of system architecture experience focused on human factors requirements, compliance, standards, and translation into system requirements and verification plans.
• 3+ years of proven ability to author, manage, and trace requirements using IBM DOORS, CAMEO, or similar tools.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to system architecture using MBSE tools.
• Generate, allocate, and trace human factors requirements across the system hierarchy.
• Define verification methodology to validate compliance with human factors standards.
• Author requirement sets and develop Interface Control Documents (ICDs).
• Produce customer deliverables such as human factors studies, compliance matrices, and validation reports.
• Participate in lab-based demonstrations and hardware-in-the-loop testing to verify usability.
• Mentor junior engineers on MBSE modeling and verification planning.

Skills

System architecture

MBSE

Requirements tracing

Verifications planning

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in STEM

Master’s Degree in STEM

PhD in STEM

Tools

IBM DOORS

CAMEO

Job description

Northrop Grumman in Roy, Utah is seeking a Sr Principal Human Factors Engineer (T04) to shape system architecture using MBSE and to drive human factors requirements across the system. You will deliver HF trade studies, verification plans, and ICDs while collaborating with cross‑functional teams.

Role requires TS clearance, strong communication with customers, and mentoring of junior engineers in MBSE modeling and verification best practices. Relocation assistance may be available.