Staff Systems Engineer - Secret Clearance, Agile Leader

Northrop Grumman; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 177,000 - 266,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Annual bonus

Long-term incentives

Health insurance

Savings plan

Paid holidays

Job summary

Northrop Grumman in Woodland Hills, CA seeks a Staff Systems Engineer to lead requirements development and system integration for complex programs with a Secret clearance. You will work onsite in California, coordinating across cross-functional teams and managing verification activities.

The role emphasizes strong communication, leadership in testing, and ensuring compliance with contractual milestones while delivering robust system solutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in STEM with 12+ years of engineering experience.
• Master's degree in STEM with 10+ years of engineering experience.
• PhD in STEM with 8+ years of engineering experience.

Responsibilities

• Identify requirements with a broad customer base and translate into design documentation.
• Work on complex technical problems and provide solutions to meet customer and program needs.
• Present to customers and program leadership on capabilities, analyses, designs and verification methods.
• Generate, review and manage multiple requirement sets covering performance and nonperformance aspects.
• Be aware of contract milestones and deliverables.
• Lead an Agile team to ensure designs meet system requirements.
• Collaborate with Agile teams to verify requirements via inspection, analysis, demonstration or test.
• Provide test directions to ensure tests and data meet requirements.

Skills

Technical baseline management

Requirements decomposition

System engineering

Software requirements

Requirements development

Test case development

Verification and validation

Stakeholder presentations

Test investigations

Team leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in STEM

Master's degree in STEM

PhD in STEM

Tools

JIRA

ClearQuest

ClearCase

Cameo modeling

Job description

Northrop Grumman in Woodland Hills, CA seeks a Staff Systems Engineer to lead requirements development and system integration for complex programs with a Secret clearance. You will work onsite in California, coordinating across cross-functional teams and managing verification activities.

The role emphasizes strong communication, leadership in testing, and ensuring compliance with contractual milestones while delivering robust system solutions.