Systems Engineer - Level 5 (AHT)

Northrop Grumman; United States; On-site; USD 177,000 - 266,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Northrop Grumman Space Systems (NGSP) in Aurora, CO is seeking a Systems Engineer - Level 5 to own the system baseline and coordinate across systems, software, hardware, test, and operations. You will translate mission needs into requirements and design, driving trade studies and verification.

The role requires a STEM degree with many years of experience, an active TS/SCI clearance, and strong capabilities in MBSE, ICDs, and requirements management.

Qualifications

• 12+ years in STEM with required experience or advanced degree with lower experience threshold or PhD with more experience.
• Active Top Secret/SCI clearance is required at time of application.
• Experience with system requirements and ICDs, traceability from needs to components.
• Ability to specify and validate build/deploy/rollback in cloud environments.
• Ability to produce clear technical documentation and MBSE artifacts.

Responsibilities

• Serve as technical focal point across program lifecycle.
• Own system baseline ensuring CONOPS, requirements, design, and test alignment.
• Coordinate cross-discipline teams to resolve issues and drive decisions.
• Translate mission threads and constraints into requirements and design.
• Lead requirements development with customers and stakeholders; manage constraints.
• Develop integration strategies, V&V plans, and detailed tests.
• Use modeling/simulation and MBSE artifacts for design decisions and trade studies.
• Identify risks, craft mitigation plans, and present results to leadership and customers.
• Support proposals and technical volumes for new business or modifications.

Skills

Systems engineering

Requirements analysis

Documentation

Customer interfacing

MBSE models

Education

STEM degree with 12+ years or advanced degree with 10+ years or PhD with 8+ years

Tools

DOORS

Jama

JIRA/Confluence

SysML Cameo

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:

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 offe