Senior Principal Systems Engineer

Relocation assistance may be available.

Clearance required for start:
Yes. Clearance type: SAP. Travel:
Yes, 10% of the time.

Northrop Grumman is seeking a Senior Principal Systems Engineer to join our Systems Engineering organization in one of the following locations:
Oklahoma City, OK;
Melbourne, FL;
Rancho Bernardo, CA; or Palmdale, CA. The role is an individual contributor within a multidisciplinary engineering team, responsible for developing program requirements, driving analytical work, and influencing future technologies.

• Perform requirements development, allocation, verification/validation planning, and manage interface definition efforts.
• Lead major milestone events to ensure program requirements are met or mitigated.
• Write complex specifications, interface control documents, and engineering reports.
• Support interface/communication with program, functional, and subsystem leads.
• Maintain Systems Engineering artifacts following proper configuration management procedures.
• Coordinate with key stakeholders to ensure proper verification and validation of Systems Engineering artifacts.
• Possess strong interpersonal and leadership skills with excellent communications skills to support coordination across IPTs and with external customers.
• Solicit input from various stakeholders and team members to synthesize data and communicate findings and recommendations clearly to both technical and non‑technical audiences.
• Manage Control Accounts as the Control Account Manager (CAM) for scope assigned, delivering all team deliverables on time and within cost, while meeting contractual programmatic and technical requirements and stakeholder expectations.
• Ensure technical quality, performance, cost and schedule for product team content on the program, in alignment with Engineering and Division processes, program policies, and industry best standards.
• Adhere to the IPT Statement of Work (SOW) and perform rigorous change management in coordination with program leadership.
• Identify resources, including staffing, required to complete product team deliverables, and communicate the need in a timely manner.
• Coordinate with Functional Management to staff the IPT.
• Coordinate technical, cost, and schedule integration across NG programs and other inter‑program groups.
• Conduct thorough risk & opportunity management practices, including identification, mitigation and realization.
• Identify and proactively address organizational and program impacts through a systematic, proactive approach to issue and problem resolution.
• Manage communications with stakeholders through organized processes to ensure that department and program information is defined, collected, shared, understood, stored and retrieved effectively.
• Identify, orchestrate, coordinate and control the management activities and processes that integrate program interdependencies throughout their life cycle to achieve successful program completion.

• Bachelor's degree in a STEM field and at least 8 years of relevant military/professional experience, OR Master's degree in a STEM field and at least 6 years of relevant military/professional experience, OR PhD and at least 4 years of relevant military/professional experience.
• Active U.S. Government Secret or higher clearance (background investigation completed within the last 6 years or currently enrolled in Continuous Evaluation).
• Ability to obtain and maintain Special Access Program (SAP) clearance within a reasonable amount of time.
• Experience in requirements and verification management in DOORS.
• Experience with requirement decomposition and traceability from System to Unit/Supplier Specifications.
• Experience managing suppliers with technical requirements and verification expectations.
• Experience with Agile execution and leading Scrum teams.
• Experience with Python or other scripting language.
• Experience managing EVMS Control Accounts as a Control Account Manager (CAM).
• Experience leading a technical team.
• Experience supporting major milestone events.

• Experience with software development.
• Experience with HW/SW integration testing.
• Experience in Cameo and traceability between architecture…