Senior Principal Systems Engineer - TS/SCI Clearance

Northrop Grumman; Virginia; On-site; USD 109,000 - 171,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

Savings plan

Paid holidays

Paid time off

Job summary

Northrop Grumman Space Systems is seeking an experienced Principal/Senior Principal Systems Engineer to support a program out of Linthicum, MD or Fairfax, VA. The role spans system engineering, integration, verification, and modeling in an Agile environment, bridging hardware and software across a family-wide product line.

You will drive requirements, ICDs, and use-case development while coordinating with customers and subcontractors.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field with required years of experience as noted for the Principal/Senior Principal level.
• Experience in ground systems engineering, system integration, or software engineering.
• Experience with requirements engineering and MBSE.
• Ability to create interface control documents (ICDs).
• Strong communication with customers and cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Elicit, analyze, and document system-level functional and non-functional requirements for the product line.
• Maintain a traceability matrix linking requirements to design, implementation, and verification artifacts.
• Conduct requirement reviews with cross-functional stakeholders (hardware, firmware, QA, product management).
• Define and maintain ICDs for all hardware-software and software-software interfaces.
• Create detailed use-case diagrams, activity flows, and sequence diagrams that capture user interactions and internal processes.

Skills

Ground systems engineering

Systems integration

Software engineering

Requirements engineering

Model Based Systems Engineering

Interface documentation

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

PhD

Tools

Jira/Confluence

DOORS

Cameo

Job description

Northrop Grumman Space Systems is seeking an experienced Principal/Senior Principal Systems Engineer to support a program out of Linthicum, MD or Fairfax, VA. The role spans system engineering, integration, verification, and modeling in an Agile environment, bridging hardware and software across a family-wide product line.

You will drive requirements, ICDs, and use-case development while coordinating with customers and subcontractors.