Sr Principal Systems Engineer – Sentinel Defense (Secret)

0090 CORP-Corporate Office; United States; On-site; USD 98,000 - 184,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental & Vision coverage

401k

Educational Assistance

Life Insurance

PTO & Work/Life Solutions

Job summary

Northrop Grumman Defense Systems is seeking a Principal / Sr. Principal Systems Engineer in Roy, UT to support the Sentinel Program. You will define capabilities, develop system models, and coordinate with teams using Cameo MBSE to enhance collaboration across engineering and software design functions.

This role includes a 9/80 schedule, competitive pay, and comprehensive benefits, with opportunities to work on advanced defense systems across land, sea, air, space and cyberspace.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in STEM with required experience as listed; for principal: 5 years with BS, 3 with MS, 1 with PhD.
• Active DoD Secret Clearance required with recent investigation.
• Experience in software or systems engineering and technical project management.

Responsibilities

• Define technology maturity constraints related to program integration events.
• Coordinate with product teams to establish function threads in architecture model.
• Develop descriptive system models including diagrams at various abstraction layers.
• Coordinate verification strategies with Segment/Subsystem owners.
• Maintain technical consistency across weapon system requirements and architecture baseline.
• Ensure defined capabilities are understood by development teams.
• Elicit and unify architectural methodologies used by product teams.
• Develop training resources and communicate with stakeholders.

Skills

Clearance (DoD Secret)

Software engineering

Systems engineering

Architecture modeling

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in STEM

Tools

Cameo MBSE

Job description

Northrop Grumman Defense Systems is seeking a Principal / Sr. Principal Systems Engineer in Roy, UT to support the Sentinel Program. You will define capabilities, develop system models, and coordinate with teams using Cameo MBSE to enhance collaboration across engineering and software design functions.

This role includes a 9/80 schedule, competitive pay, and comprehensive benefits, with opportunities to work on advanced defense systems across land, sea, air, space and cyberspace.