Systems Engineer - Level 5 (AHT)

0090 CORP-Corporate Office; United States; On-site; USD 177,000 - 266,000; Full time

Job summary

Northrop Grumman Space Systems in Aurora, CO is seeking a Systems Engineer - Level 5 to own the system baseline, ensuring consistency between CONOPS, requirements, design, and test. You will coordinate cross-discipline teams and translate mission threads into concrete requirements and designs.

The role requires leading requirements development with customers, developing integration strategies, V&V plans, and detailed test procedures, using MBSE artifacts to support decisions and risk

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a STEM discipline with 12 years of experience or advanced degrees with corresponding experience.
• Active Top Secret/SCI clearance required at time of application.
• Experience with system requirements and ICDs.
• Ability to perform requirements analysis, allocation, and traceability.
• Ability to specify and validate cloud deployment related requirements.
• Clear technical documentation creation (requirements, interfaces, diagrams).
• Familiarity with reading/creating MBSE models (CAMEO/DOORS/MBSE).
• Preferred: distributed systems or cloud-native experience, security in cloud containers.

Responsibilities

• Serve as system engineering focal point across program lifecycle.
• Own the system technical baseline; ensure CONOPS–requirements–design–test alignment.
• Coordinate cross-discipline teams to resolve issues and drive decisions.
• Capture mission threads and translate into requirements and design.
• Lead requirements development with customers and stakeholders.
• Develop integration strategies, V&V plans, and detailed test procedures.
• Use modeling, simulation, and MBSE artifacts for design decisions.
• Identify risks and track mitigation plans; present results to leadership.
• Support proposals and basis-of-estimate development for new bids.

Skills

System requirements

Requirements traceability

Cloud deployment knowledge

Technical documentation

Customer engagement

Education

STEM degree (Bachelor's or higher)

Tools

DOORS

Cameo

JIRA/Confluence

SysML/Rhapsody

MATLAB/Simulink

Job description

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: Yes CLEARANCE TYPE: SCI TRAVEL: Yes, 25% 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. Northrop Grumman Space Systems (NGSP) is looking for you to join our team as a Systems Engineer - Level 5 based out of Aurora, CO.

What you'll get to do:

This position serves as a technical point of contact for systems engineering, owning the system technical baseline and ensuring consistency between CONOPS, requirements, design, and test. The role coordinates cross-discipline teams (systems, software, hardware, test & integration, operations), capturing mission threads, user workflows, and operational constraints and translating them into requirements and design. The selected candidate will drive requirements development with customers and stakeholders, develop integration strategies, V&V plans, and detailed test plans and procedures, use modeling and simulation and MBSE artifacts to support design decisions and trade studies, identify and mitigate technical risks, present technical approaches and results to internal stakeholders and external customers, and support proposals and technical volumes for new business or contract modifications.

Job Duties

• 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.
• Perform across multi-disciplined teams (systems, software, hardware, test, operations) 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 and procedures at system and subsystem levels.
• Use modeling and simulation, analytical tools, and MBSE artifacts to support design decisions and trade studies.
• Identify technical risks and opportunities; develop and track mitigation plans.
• Present technical approaches, status, and results to internal leadership and external customers.
• Support proposals, basis-of-estimate development, and technical volumes for new business or modifications.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a STEM discipline with 12 years of relevant experience – OR – Master’s degree with 10 years of relevant experience – OR – PhD with 8 years 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in systems engineering for distributed systems or cloud-native applications.
• Familiarity with network security aspects relevant to container and cloud deployments (TLS, certificates, secrets management).
• Familiarity with service meshes (e.g., Istio, Linkerd) in Kubernetes environments.
• Hands‑on experience with: Requirements management tools (e.g., DOORS, Jama, JIRA/Confluence-based flows).
• Modeling and simulation or MBSE tools (e.g., SysML, Cameo, Rhapsody, MATLAB/Simulink).
• Test automation, test management tools, or lab integration environments.
• Good Customer interaction and presentation skills.
• Experience interfacing with government or prime customers, including participation in design and test reviews (SRR, PDR, CDR, TRR, etc.).
• Certification(s) in Systems Engineering (e.g., INCOSE ASEP/CSEP/ESEP) or Project Management (e.g., PMP) are a plus.

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Primary Level Salary Range: $177,000.00 - $265,600.00 The above salary range represents a general guideline; however, Northrop Grumman considers a number of factors when determining base salary offers such as the scope and responsibilities of the position and the candidate's experience, education, skills and current market conditions. Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay. Annual bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions as well as allow employees to share in company results. Employees in Vice President or Director positions may be eligible for Long Term Incentives. In addition, NorthropGrumman provides a variety of benefits including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, savings plan, Company paid holidays and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business.

The application period for the job is estimated to be 20 days from the job posting date. However, this timeline may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates.

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