Systems Engineer, Level 2/3 – SCI Clearance | MBSE Focus

Northrop Grumman; Aurora (CO); On-site; USD 92,000 - 171,000; Full time

Job summary

Northrop Grumman Space Systems in Aurora, CO seeks a Systems Engineer at Level 2 or 3 to own the system baseline, coordinate across systems, software, hardware, and test teams, and ensure alignment of CONOPS, requirements, design, and test. You will drive requirements with customers, develop integration strategies, and support proposals for new business.

The role requires active TS/SCI clearance, experience with ICDs, MBSE, and model-based decision support.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a STEM discipline with 2 years of relevant experience or Master’s with 1 year of relevant experience.
• Active Top Secret/SCI clearance is required at time of application.
• Experience with system requirements and interface control documents (ICDs).
• Ability to perform requirements analysis, allocation, and traceability from high-level needs down to components and services.
• Ability to specify and validate requirements related to build, deployment, and rollback processes in a cloud environment.
• Ability to create clear technical documentation (requirements, interface specs, sequence diagrams, data flow diagrams).
• Familiarity with reading, creating and interpreting CAMEO/DOORS/MBSE models

Responsibilities

• Systems Engineering focal point for the program across multiple phases of the program lifecycle.
• Ownership of the system technical baseline, ensuring consistency between CONOPS, requirements, design, and test.
• Collaborate across multi-disciplinary teams to resolve issues and drive decisions.
• Capture mission threads, user workflows, and operational constraints and flow them into requirements and design.
• Lead requirements development with customers and stakeholders; clarify and negotiate technical needs and constraints.
• Develop integration strategies, V&V plans, and detailed test plans at system and subsystem levels.
• Use modeling/simulation/MBSE artifacts to support design decisions and trade studies.
• Identify technical risks and opportunities; develop and track mitigation plans.
• Present technical approaches/status to internal leadership and external customers.
• Support proposals and technical volumes for new business or modifications.

Skills

Requirements analysis

Traceability

Documentation

MBSE modeling

Education

Bachelor’s degree in STEM with 2 years experience

Master’s degree with 1 year experience

PhD with 1 year experience

Tools

CAMEO/DOORS

MBSE tools

Jira/Confluence

Job description

Northrop Grumman Space Systems in Aurora, CO seeks a Systems Engineer at Level 2 or 3 to own the system baseline, coordinate across systems, software, hardware, and test teams, and ensure alignment of CONOPS, requirements, design, and test. You will drive requirements with customers, develop integration strategies, and support proposals for new business.

The role requires active TS/SCI clearance, experience with ICDs, MBSE, and model-based decision support.