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Systems Engineer - Level 3 or 4

Northrop Grumman
COAU09, United States, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 8 Apr 2026
💰 $213,400/yr($114,000/yr$213,400/yr)

About the role

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: Yes

CLEARANCE TYPE: SCI

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.

Northrop Grumman Space Systems (NGSP) is seeking an experienced Systems Engineer - Level 3 or 4 o support a program out of our Aurora, CO office.

What You'll Get to Do:

Performs system integration, and verification and validation, for total systems. Work is performed at all levels of total system product to include: concept, design, test, installation, operation, and maintenance. Ensures the logical and systematic conversion of customer or product requirements into total systems solutions that acknowledge technical and schedule constraints. Maintain existing operations procedures up-to-date to also include lessons learned from real-time performance. Develop new procedures as required. Interface with program and customer personnel as required.

Additional duties/responsibilities:

  • Ability to decompose and allocate requirements to different levels of the system architecture (HW, FW, and SW) and functional engineering group.

  • Ability to develop and release Systems Engineering Artifacts, including but not limited to Specifications, Technical Document Architectures, Concept of Operations, Algorithm and Architecture Design Document, Interconnect Diagrams, Interface Control Documents, Test Plans, Test Procedures, Test Reports, System Analysis Plans, System Inspection Plans, Configured Items Lists, Deployment Plans and Procedures

  • Collaborate with multiple functional engineering groups to synthesize requirements, capability statements, and new technology integration as well as high-level design into low level and implementable design

  • Participate and Support in Engineering Development, Production, and Deployment Milestones, both internally and externally

  • Review and provide feedback of engineering drawings and documentation

  • Document and voice process improvements and new technologies to be considered for implementation

This position requires being onsite and does not support remote or hybrid work. 

This requisition may be filled at a higher job grade based on the qualifications listed below.

This requisition may be filled as either a level 3 or level 4.

Basic Qualifications for a Level 3:

  • Must have an active U.S. Government DoD Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) security clearance at the time of application

  • Bachelor's degree in a STEM discipline with 5 years of relevant experience; 3 years of relevant experience with a Master's degree; 0 years of relevant experience with a PhD.

  • Previous work as a systems engineer, system integrator, software engineer

  • Effective written and oral communications skills

  • Experience using Jira/confluence to collaborate regarding tasking and work instructions inside a team

  • Experience using DOORs and/or Cameo for requirements management

  • Experience creating interface description documents


 

Basic Qualifications for a Level 4:

  • Must have an active U.S. Government DoD Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) security clearance at the time of application

  • Bachelor's degree in a STEM discipline with 8 years of relevant experience; 6 years of relevant experience with a Master's degree; 4 years of relevant experience with a PhD.

  • Previous work as a systems engineer, system integrator, software engineer

  • Effective written and oral communications skills

  • Experience using Jira/confluence to collaborate regarding tasking and work instructions inside a team

  • Experience using DOORs and/or Cameo for requirements management

  • Experience creating interfac

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