Senior Systems Engineer, Secret Clearance (Aerospace)

Northrop Grumman; Melbourne (FL); On-site; USD 75,000 - 138,000; Full time

Job summary

Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems seeks a Systems Engineer to join a multi-disciplinary team in the Systems Engineering organization. This individual contributor role collaborates across IPTs to define interfaces, write requirements, and drive program advances for modernization and sustainment efforts.

The position requires active DoD Secret clearance, strong experience in aerospace systems engineering disciplines, and familiarity with MBSE, DOORS, Cameo, and CI/CD practices.

Qualifications

• Active DoD Secret or higher clearance or enrolled in Continuous Evaluation.
• Ability to obtain and maintain SAP clearance.
• Experience in aerospace systems engineering disciplines including requirements decomposition, test planning and verification.

Responsibilities

• Perform requirements development, allocation, verification/validation planning and manage interface definition efforts.
• Write complex specifications, interface control documents, and engineering reports.
• Support interface/communication with program, functional and subsystem leads.
• Maintain Systems Engineering artifacts following configuration management.
• Coordinate with stakeholders to verify and validate artifacts.
• Demonstrate strong interpersonal and leadership skills to coordinate across IPTs and with external customers.
• Synthesize data and communicate findings to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Support cross-functional development, integration, and testing of system functional threads.
• Develop and execute program IFC plans and metrics with IPTs.
• Manage project execution rhythm, coordination, and reporting.
• Utilize JIRA or similar for issue tracking and resolution.

Skills

Python scripting

Requirements decomposition

Traceability

Cross-functional team

Software development

HW/SW integration testing

Agile execution

Managing suppliers

DOORS DXL

DOORS administration

Cameo

MBSE

CI/CD for aircraft sustainment

Education

Bachelor’s in STEM + 2 yrs systems Eng

Master’s in STEM + 3 yrs systems Eng

PhD in STEM

Tools

JIRA

Job description

Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems seeks a Systems Engineer to join a multi-disciplinary team in the Systems Engineering organization. This individual contributor role collaborates across IPTs to define interfaces, write requirements, and drive program advances for modernization and sustainment efforts.

The position requires active DoD Secret clearance, strong experience in aerospace systems engineering disciplines, and familiarity with MBSE, DOORS, Cameo, and CI/CD practices.