Sr Principal Engineer Hardware - Evergreen (AHT

Senior Principal Hardware Lead

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's Space Systems Sector is known for pushing the boundaries of innovation, redefining engineering capabilities, and driving advances in various sciences through cutting-edge technology. Our team is chartered with providing the skills, and innovative technologies to develop, design, produce, and sustain optimized product lines across the sector while providing a decisive advantage to the warfighter. Come be a part of our mission.

We are seeking a Senior Principal Hardware Lead for our Aurora, CO location. As a part of the Hardware team, the Hardware Lead has an understanding of the Systems Engineering process across a product's lifecycle and gains a full appreciation for how the systems operate as well as experience executing full life-cycle development for complex mission systems (requirements, design, integration, test, deployment, and sustainment)

The successful candidates will demonstrate the ability to complete tasks with little direction and oversight. They will be an effective communicator and problem solver who are able to develop and begin working relationships with internal and external stakeholders and customers.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Strong systems engineering background, including system architecture definition and development of SRD/RTM and ICDs (interfaces, data flows, networks, ports/protocols/services).
• Hands-on experience planning and executing formal technical reviews and test events (e.g., SRR, PDR, CDR, TRR, FAT/PAT) and documenting results.
• Lead hardware architecture and detailed design for land, maritime, and enterprise variants, ensuring requirements allocation, performance margins, and integration with system/software/network elements.
• Own fabrication and assembly documentation (schematics, BoMs, assembly drawings), driving design-for-manufacture/test and resolving hardware non-conformances with suppliers and internal teams.
• Plan and oversee hardware verification and qualification (environmental, vibration, shock, EMI/EMC, power, reliability), including test procedures, fixtures, and analysis of results.
• Maintain hardware configuration control across prototypes and production (baselines, change requests, CCB input, release packages), coordinating closely with configuration management and QA.
• Lead hardware risk and issue management (technical risks, obsolescence, supply chain, reliability/sparing) and present status, mitigations, and impacts at TIMs, design reviews (SRR/PDR/CDR), TRR/FAT/PAT, and PMRs.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree with 8+ years of relevant experience, OR Master's degree with 6+ years of relevant experience is required. 4 additional years of experience is required in lieu of a degree.
• Must have an active U.S. Government Top Secret security clearance at time of application, current and within scope, with the ability to obtain and maintain SCI approval/access.
• Working knowledge of relevant military/environmental, EMI/EMC, and power standards (e.g., MIL-STD-810, MIL-STD-461, MIL-STD-167, MIL-STD-1399) and their application to design and test.
• Background in cybersecurity and configuration/risk management for DoD systems (RMF/NIST-based controls, SSP/STIG/ACAS artifacts, configuration control, and risk registers)
• Experience with hardware design, performing integration and developing and executing test processes.
• Demonstrated knowledge…