Systems Engineer – SCI Clearance, MBSE & Cloud

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

Job summary

Northrop Grumman is seeking a systems engineering professional to serve as a technical point of contact, owning the system baseline and ensuring consistency across CONOPS, requirements, design, and test. You will coordinate cross-discipline teams—systems, software, hardware, test, and operations—while driving requirements with customers and stakeholders and supporting proposals.

The role emphasizes MBSE methodologies, risk mitigation, and detailed test planning, with opportunities to influence

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a STEM discipline with 2 years of relevant experience – OR – Master’s degree 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
• 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

Skills

Systems thinking

Clear communication

Team collaboration

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in STEM

Tools

CAMEO/DOORS/MBSE

ICDs

Modeling and simulation tools

Job description

Northrop Grumman is seeking a systems engineering professional to serve as a technical point of contact, owning the system baseline and ensuring consistency across CONOPS, requirements, design, and test. You will coordinate cross-discipline teams—systems, software, hardware, test, and operations—while driving requirements with customers and stakeholders and supporting proposals.

The role emphasizes MBSE methodologies, risk mitigation, and detailed test planning, with opportunities to influence