Senior Principal Systems Engineer — Space Systems, TS/SCI

Northrop Grumman; Linthicum (MD); On-site; USD 109,000 - 213,000; Full time

Job summary

Northrop Grumman Space Systems (NGSP) seeks an experienced Principal/Senior Principal Systems Engineer to support our Advanced Tactical Missions BU across Linthicum, MD. You will perform system engineering, integration, verification, and validation for a software product line bridging hardware and software domains.

The role requires leading design and development of reusable components, maintaining ICDs, and ensuring traceability from requirements through delivery in an Agile environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of relevant experience; or Master's with 3+ years; or PhD with 0 years.
• Experience in ground systems engineering, systems integration, or software engineering.
• Experience with requirements engineering, verification & validation, and MBSE.
• Experience working with customers and subcontractors.
• Excellent written and oral communications skills.
• Active Top Secret/SCI clearance at time of application (or willingness to sit for a polygraph).

Responsibilities

• Perform system engineering, integration, verification and validation across the product line.
• Lead the engineering of a family-wide software product line and reusable components across variants.
• Maintain traceability linking requirements to design and verification artifacts.
• Create ICDs for hardware-software and software-software interfaces.
• Develop use-case diagrams, activity flows and sequence diagrams capturing user interactions.

Skills

System engineering

Requirements engineering

Model Based Systems Engineering

V&V

Client communications

Hardware-software integration

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

PhD

Tools

Jira

Confluence

DOORS

Cameo

Job description

Northrop Grumman Space Systems (NGSP) seeks an experienced Principal/Senior Principal Systems Engineer to support our Advanced Tactical Missions BU across Linthicum, MD. You will perform system engineering, integration, verification, and validation for a software product line bridging hardware and software domains.

The role requires leading design and development of reusable components, maintaining ICDs, and ensuring traceability from requirements through delivery in an Agile environment.