Top Secret Systems Engineer - Space Systems (Level 3/4)

Northrop Grumman; Town of Aurora (NY); On-site; USD 114,000 - 213,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

Savings plan

PTO

Job summary

Northrop Grumman Space Systems in Aurora, CO is seeking a Systems Engineer at Level 3 or 4 to own the system technical baseline and coordinate cross-disciplinary teams across the program lifecycle. The role emphasizes requirements development, MBSE artifacts, and risk mitigation to ensure CONOPS, requirements, design, and test are aligned.

The successful candidate will engage with customers and stakeholders, develop integration strategies, and support proposals and technical volumes for new

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in STEM with 5+ years of relevant experience (Level 3) or advanced degree with less experience.
• Active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility 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 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 MBSE models such as CAMEO/DOORS.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the systems engineering focal point for the program across lifecycle phases.
• Own the system technical baseline and ensure CONOPS, requirements, design, and test alignment.
• Coordinate across systems, software, hardware, test, and operations teams to resolve issues.
• Capture mission threads and operational constraints and translate into requirements and design.
• Lead requirements development with customers and stakeholders and negotiate needs and constraints.
• Develop integration strategies, V&V plans, and detailed test plans for system and subsystems.
• Use modeling and simulation and MBSE artifacts to support design decisions and trade studies.
• Identify risks and mitigation plans and present approaches to leadership and customers.
• Support proposals, basis-of-estimate development, and technical volumes for new business.

Skills

Systems Engineering

Requirements analysis

MBSE modeling

CAMEO/DOORS

Technical documentation

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in STEM

Tools

CAMEO/DOORS/MBSE

Job description

Northrop Grumman Space Systems in Aurora, CO is seeking a Systems Engineer at Level 3 or 4 to own the system technical baseline and coordinate cross-disciplinary teams across the program lifecycle. The role emphasizes requirements development, MBSE artifacts, and risk mitigation to ensure CONOPS, requirements, design, and test are aligned.

The successful candidate will engage with customers and stakeholders, develop integration strategies, and support proposals and technical volumes for new