Senior Systems Engineer — Level 5 (SCI/TS)

Northrop Grumman; Aurora (CO); On-site; USD 177,000 - 266,000; Full time

Job summary

Northrop Grumman Space Systems seeks a Systems Engineer - Level 5 for the Aurora, CO site. You will own the system baseline, coordinate across systems, software, and hardware teams, and translate CONOPS and requirements into design and test plans.

A TS/SCI clearance is required, with strong MBSE, ICD, and documentation skills. Responsibilities include leading requirements development with customers, creating V&V strategies, and supporting proposals for new work.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a STEM discipline with 12 years of relevant experience – OR – Master’s degree with 10 years of relevant experience – OR – PhD with 8 years of relevant experience.
• Active Top Secret/SCI clearance is required at time of application.
• Experience with system requirements and interface control documents (ICDs).
• Ability to perform requirements analysis, allocation, and traceability from high-level needs down to components and services.
• Ability to specify and validate requirements related to build, deployment, and rollback processes in a cloud environment.
• Ability to create clear technical documentation (requirements, interface specs, sequence diagrams, data flow diagrams).
• Familiarity with reading, creating and interpreting CAMEO/DOORS/MBSE models

Responsibilities

• Systems Engineering focal point for the program across multiple phases of the program lifecycle.
• Ownership of the system technical baseline, ensuring consistency between CONOPS, requirements, design, and test.
• Perform across multi-disciplined teams (systems, software, hardware, test, operations) to resolve issues and drive decisions.
• Capture mission threads, user workflows, and operational constraints and flow them into requirements and design.
• Lead requirements development with customers and stakeholders; clarify and negotiate technical needs and constraints.
• Develop integration strategies, V&V plans, and detailed test plans and procedures at system and subsystem levels.
• Use modeling and simulation, analytical tools, and MBSE artifacts to support design decisions and trade studies.
• Identify technical risks and opportunities; develop and track mitigation plans.
• Present technical approaches, status, and results to internal leadership and external customers.
• Support proposals, basis-of-estimate development, and technical volumes for new business or modifications.

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a STEM discipline with 12 years of relevant experience – OR – Master’s degree with 10 years of relevant experience – OR – PhD with 8 years of relevant experience.

Tools

DOORS

JAMA

JIRA/Confluence

MBSE

SysML

CAMEO

Job description

Northrop Grumman Space Systems seeks a Systems Engineer - Level 5 for the Aurora, CO site. You will own the system baseline, coordinate across systems, software, and hardware teams, and translate CONOPS and requirements into design and test plans.

A TS/SCI clearance is required, with strong MBSE, ICD, and documentation skills. Responsibilities include leading requirements development with customers, creating V&V strategies, and supporting proposals for new work.