Staff Engineer Systems - Hardware Integration Lead - 19392

Northrop Grumman; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Northrop Grumman Defense Systems seeks a Staff Systems Engineer - HW Integration Lead in Huntsville, AL. You will drive hardware integration during TMRR, plan requirements, and guide MBSE artifacts through Cameo, ensuring traceability to system interfaces and customer needs.

You will mentor early-career engineers, participate in senior technical reviews, and support design decisions with rigorous analysis and planning. Active DoD clearance is preferred.

Qualifications

• Experience applying systems engineering across full lifecycle for complex hardware-intensive systems.
• Active DoD Secret Clearance or ability to obtain one.
• Ability to lead technical reviews and corroborate MBSE artifacts.

Responsibilities

• Lead hardware integration during TMRR phase with technical leadership for shipboard assemblies.
• Plan requirements allocation and traceability aligned with weapon system interfaces.
• Review MBSE artifacts in Cameo for alignment with baseline.
• Develop verification/validation strategy, test plans, and acceptance criteria.
• Coordinate system integration and lab troubleshooting with cross-functional IPTs.

Skills

Systems engineering

Technical leadership

MBSE artifacts

Technical reviews

Team mentorship

Education

Bachelor's degree + 12 years

Master's degree + 10 years

PhD + 8 years

Tools

Cameo

Job description

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: Yes

CLEARANCE TYPE: Secret

TRAVEL: Yes, 10% of the Time Description

At Northrop Grumman, our employees have incredible opportunities to work on revolutionary systems that impact people's lives around the world today, and for generations to come. Our pioneering and inventive spirit has enabled us to be at the forefront of many technological advancements in our nation's history - from the first flight across the Atlantic Ocean, to stealth bombers, to landing on the moon. We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage and a pioneering spirit to join forces to invent the future, and have fun along the way. Our culture thrives on intellectual curiosity, cognitive diversity and bringing your whole self to work - and we have an insatiable drive to do what others think is impossible. Our employees are not only part of history, they're making history.

Join Northrop Grumman on our continued mission to push the boundaries of possible across land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace. Enjoy a culture where your voice is valued and start contributing to our team of passionate professionals providing real-life solutions to our world's biggest challenges. We take pride in creating purposeful work and allowing our employees to grow and achieve their goals every day by Defining Possible. With our competitive pay and comprehensive benefits, we have the right opportunities to fit your life and launch your career today.

Northrop Grumman Defense Systems is seeking a Staff Systems Engineer - HW Integration Lead in Huntsville, Alabama. The ideal candidate is a team player; but also, a strong independent contributor with strong leadership skills, demonstrated problem-solving skills, excellent communication skills, as well as interpersonal and organizational skills and a proactive, detail-oriented approach.

What You'll Get to Do:

Primary responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Lead the SLCM-N hardware integration during the Technology Maturation and Risk Reduction (TMRR) phase, providing technical leadership for complex, shipboard hardware assemblies.
• Lead technical planning, requirements development, allocation, and traceability for integrated electromechanical assemblies, ensuring alignment with customer, weapon system, and interface requirements.
• Review model-based systems engineering (MBSE) artifacts in Cameo (e.g., system/subsystem behavioral and structural models, interface definitions) to ensure alignment with technical baseline.
• Oversee verification and validation strategy development, including verification methods, test plans, procedures, and acceptance criteria for integrated hardware assemblies.
• Perform system integration and hardware-software integration planning and execution, including support to lab integration, troubleshooting, anomaly resolution, and configuration control.
• Drive technical rigor in completion and development of functional analysis, trade studies, risk and opportunity assessments, and impact analyses to support design decisions.
• Collaborate with cross-functional IPTs (hardware, software, manufacturing, test, operations, logistics, specialty engineering) to ensure designs are producible, testable, and supportable across the system lifecycle.
• Review systems engineering artifacts (e.g., theory of operations, interface control documents, assembly description documents, installation and integration documents) for assigned hardware products.
• Provide subject matter expertise of the technical baseline, providing guidance to hardware design responsible engineers and represent the program in internal and external senior-level technical reviews.
• Mentor and provide technical guidance to early-career engineers in engineering best practices.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) discipline from an accredited university and 12 years of relevant experience, OR a Masters degree and 10 years of relevant experience, OR a PhD and 8 years of relevant experience.
• Must be a US Citizen with an a ctive DoD Secret Clearance , at time of application, current and within scope, with an investigation date within the last 6 years
• Must have the ability to obtain and maintain Top Secret Clearance and Special Access Program (SAP) approval within a reasonable period of time, as determined by the company to meet its business needs
• Experience applying systems engineering processes across the full lifecycle (concept through test and integration) for complex hardware-intensive or weapon systems, including requirements development, decomposition, and verification.
• Experience in conceptual design and development including rapid prototyping and testing to support fast‑paced missile development.

Preferred Qualifications

• Active DoD Top Secret Clearance
• Electromechanical system design and development experience, including support to manufacturing, integration, and test of com