Sentinel (GBSD) - Principal / Sr Principal Systems Engineer (7614-1)

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE TYPE: Secret

TRAVEL: Yes, 10% 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.

Join Northrop Grumman on our continued mission to push the boundaries of possible across land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace. Enjoy a culture where your voice is valued and start contributing to our team of passionate professionals providing real-life solutions to our world’s biggest challenges. We take pride in creating purposeful work and allowing our employees to grow and achieve their goals every day by Defining Possible. With our competitive pay and comprehensive benefits, we have the right opportunities to fit your life and launch your career today. 

Northrop Grumman Defense Systems is seeking a Principal Systems Engineer / Sr Principal Systems Engineer. This position is located in Roy, UT or Huntsville, AL and supports the Sentinel program. 

This role may offer a competitive relocation assistance package.

What You’ll Get To Do:

• Develop and improve processes and metrics for engineering design activities promoting Systems Engineering best practices
• Work with multiple Integrated Product Teams (IPTs) to understand the metrics and improve engineering products and processes
• Work with tools to extract, automate, and report data from various databases to leadership and customers
• Identifying gaps within our processes to enable stakeholders to fix issues
• Brief status regularly to key stakeholders
• Develop top-level engineering processes and governance including the Systems Engineering Management Plan

Basic Qualifications:

This requisition may be filled at either the Principal Engineer Systems level (T03) or Sr Principal Engineer Systems level (T04).

Principal Systems Engineer: Bachelor's degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) discipline from an accredited university and 5 years of experience with Bachelor's degree, 3 years of experience with Master's degree, 1 year with a PhD.

Sr Principal Systems Engineer: Bachelor's degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) discipline from an accredited university and 8 Years of related experience; 6 Years with Masters; 4 Years with PhD

Required for Both Levels:

• Must be a US Citizen with an active DoD Secret Clearance, at time of application, current and within scope, with an investigation date within the last 6 years
• Must have the ability to obtain and maintain Special Access Program (SAP) approval within a reasonable period of time, as determined by the company to meet its business need
• Strong Systems Engineering skills (3+ years) with experience participating in Systems Engineering Technical Review milestone events
• Experience with Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) and Requirement management (1+ year)
• Demonstrated cross-organizational team leadership and communication skills with the ability to coordinate execution of multiple technical teams to achieve overarching project goals and confidence to brief Segment, Program and Customer leadership

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with ICBM or other large DoD Acquisition programs
• Extensive MBSE experience (3+ years)
• Experience with Dynamic Object Oriented Requirement System (DOORS)
• Experience with CAMEO and Teamwork Cloud
• Experience with Teamcenter or similar Product Lifecycle Management tools
• Experience with software scripting in one or more modern, object-oriented languages
• Experience with Agile development
• Experience developing processes and procedures
• Experience with data