Senior Principal Systems Engineer - MBSE & Propulsion

Northrop Grumman; Elkton (MD); On-site; USD 129,000 - 194,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Northrop Grumman is seeking a Sr. Principal Engineer Systems – Level 4 to join our Propulsion Systems & Controls (PS&C) team at Palm Beach Gardens, FL and Elkton, MD. You will develop system architectures for propulsion hardware and guide MBSE activities across multiple engineering disciplines.

The role requires strong systems engineering, requirements management, and experience with V&V planning, ICDs, and architecture artifacts. A secret clearance and US citizenship are required.

Qualifications

• Experience performing systems engineering activities on technical programs (requirements, design, integration, or test).
• Experience with requirements development and management, including writing clear, testable requirements and maintaining a requirements baseline
• Experience establishing and maintaining requirements traceability (e.g., between stakeholder needs, system requirements, lower-level requirements, design, and test).
• Familiarity with MBSE environment (SysML) using tools such as Cameo/MagicDraw, Rhapsody, or similar, and integrating models with requirements (e.g., DOORS).
• Experience supporting or leading technical reviews (e.g., SRR, PDR, CDR)
• Experience developing and executing verification and validation (V&V) plans
• Demonstrated ability to work across multi-disciplinary engineering teams
• Ability to obtain a secret clearance, US citizenship is a pre-requisite

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and coordination between engineering disciplines, program management, and external stakeholders.
• Determine systems engineering tasks required for project planning and execution, communicate milestones and need dates to program leads.
• Produce and maintain key systems engineering artifacts (Requirements specifications, ICDs, V&V matrices, architecture) in a MBSE environment.
• Define and plan testing activities in conjunction with propulsion engineering including propulsion tests at Elkton, Ronkonkoma, or external ranges.
• Define and maintain a requirements decomposition strategy across subsystems and disciplines.
• Lead requirements and architecture reviews (PDR, CDR-level artifacts) to ensure completeness and testability.
• Lead Risk and Opportunity meetings for technical and programmatic teams.
• Demonstrate strong written and verbal communication and ability to build consensus.

Skills

Systems engineering

Requirements management

MBSE

Technical leadership

Communication

Cross-disciplinary work

Problem solving

Stakeholder coordination

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering

Master’s degree in engineering

PhD in engineering

Tools

Cameo/MagicDraw

Rhapsody

DOORS

Job description

Northrop Grumman is seeking a Sr. Principal Engineer Systems – Level 4 to join our Propulsion Systems & Controls (PS&C) team at Palm Beach Gardens, FL and Elkton, MD. You will develop system architectures for propulsion hardware and guide MBSE activities across multiple engineering disciplines.

The role requires strong systems engineering, requirements management, and experience with V&V planning, ICDs, and architecture artifacts. A secret clearance and US citizenship are required.