Staff Systems Engineer — Propulsion & MBSE Lead

Northrop Grumman; Town of Florida (NY); On-site; USD 161,000 - 241,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Savings plan

Paid time off

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Northrop Grumman is seeking a Staff Systems Engineer – Level 5 to join our Propulsion Systems & Controls unit at Palm Beach Gardens, Florida or Elkton, Maryland. You will lead cross-disciplinary teams to define architectures for propulsion hardware, ensure traceability from requirements through verification, and guide modeling in a MBSE environment.

You will own system baselines, coordinate with program management and external stakeholders, and mentor junior engineers while delivering robust,

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or a STEM-related discipline with at least 12 years of experience, or a Master’s with 10 years, or PhD with 8 years.
• Demonstrated technical leadership on complex aerospace or weapon system programs.
• Experience with requirements development and management and maintaining a requirements baseline.
• Experience establishing full requirements traceability across stakeholder needs, system requirements, architecture, and verification.
• Familiarity with MBSE (SysML preferred) using Cameo/MagicDraw, Rhapsody, or similar tools, and integrating models with DOORS.
• Experience leading technical reviews (SRR, PDR, CDR) or equivalent.
• Experience developing V&V plans mapping requirements to verification methods.
• Experience leading system integration and qualification efforts.
• Ability to work across multi-disciplinary teams to resolve requirements and design issues.
• Experience with at least one requirements management tool (DOORS, Jama, JIRA).
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills; ability to document technical information clearly.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and coordination between engineering disciplines and stakeholders for integrated solutions.
• Own the system baseline and ensure alignment across requirements, architecture, interfaces, verification, and program execution.
• Plan and own systems engineering tasks for project planning and execution; communicate milestones to leads.
• Produce and maintain key systems engineering artifacts (requirements, ICDs, V&V matrices, architecture, verification reports) in a MBSE environment.
• Define and plan testing activities with propulsion engineering; include tests at Elkton, Ronkonkoma, or external ranges.
• Define and maintain a requirements decomposition strategy across subsystems.
• Lead requirements and architecture reviews (PDR, CDR) for completeness and feasibility.
• Lead Risk and Opportunity meetings for technical and program teams.
• Provide mentorship in Systems Engineering initiatives to other SEs and propulsion engineers.
• Demonstrate strong written and verbal communication and stakeholder relationship-building skills.

Skills

Technical leadership

Requirements management

MBSE

SysML

Cameo/MagicDraw

Rhapsody

DOORS/Jama/JIRA

System integration

V&V planning

Problem solving

Clearance readiness

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering or STEM

Master’s degree in engineering

PhD in engineering

Tools

Cameo/MagicDraw

Rhapsody

DOORS

Jama

JIRA

Job description

Northrop Grumman is seeking a Staff Systems Engineer – Level 5 to join our Propulsion Systems & Controls unit at Palm Beach Gardens, Florida or Elkton, Maryland. You will lead cross-disciplinary teams to define architectures for propulsion hardware, ensure traceability from requirements through verification, and guide modeling in a MBSE environment.

You will own system baselines, coordinate with program management and external stakeholders, and mentor junior engineers while delivering robust,