Senior Principal Systems Engineer — Ground-Based Radar

Northrop Grumman; Colorado Springs (CO); On-site; USD 129,000 - 194,000; Full time

Job summary

Northrop Grumman is seeking a Sr. Principal Systems Engineer - Ground-Based Radar to lead the technical integration across multiple sites.

You will coordinate software and hardware system engineering, ensure requirements traceability, and maintain configuration baselines across contracts. Responsibilities include leading SES activities for SRR/PDR/CDR, presenting program briefs to leadership, and collaborating with customers and distributed IPTs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's in a STEM field with 8+ years of related experience, or a Master’s/PhD with fewer years.
• Active U.S. Government Secret security clearance is required.
• Proven experience leading systems engineering for ground-based radar or similar large-scale sensor systems.
• Experience applying SE best practices: requirements management, verification & validation, risk management and CM.

Responsibilities

• Act as technical leader across a multi-site, multi-disciplinary team to align architecture, requirements, design decisions, and CM baselines.
• Lead software- and hardware-focused systems engineering with requirements decomposition and traceability across sites.
• Champion SE and CM best practices to establish and maintain baselines across all locations.
• Prepare and present materials for SRR, PDR, CDR and other program reviews; communicate status and dependencies to leadership.
• Interface with inter-organizational leadership, external customers, and dispersed teams to deliver technical briefings.

Skills

Systems engineering

Requirements management

Traceability

Configuration management

Technical leadership

Multi-site coordination

Education

Bachelor's in STEM

Master's in STEM

PhD in STEM

Tools

DOORS

SysML

Job description

Northrop Grumman is seeking a Sr. Principal Systems Engineer - Ground-Based Radar to lead the technical integration across multiple sites.

You will coordinate software and hardware system engineering, ensure requirements traceability, and maintain configuration baselines across contracts. Responsibilities include leading SES activities for SRR/PDR/CDR, presenting program briefs to leadership, and collaborating with customers and distributed IPTs.