Cyber Systems Engineer - Level 4

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE:
Relocation assistance may be available
CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START:
No
CLEARANCE TYPE:
None
TRAVEL:
Yes, 10% of the Time

At Northrop Grumman, our employees work on revolutionary systems that impact lives worldwide. Our pioneering spirit has been at the forefront of many technological advancements, from the first transatlantic flight to stealth bombers and lunar landings. We seek individuals with bold ideas, courage, and a pioneering spirit to invent the future, and to do so with enjoyment along the way. Our culture thrives on intellectual curiosity, cognitive diversity, and authenticity at work.

Northrop Grumman’s Space Sector is seeking a Cyber Systems Engineer – Level 4 to join our team in Chandler, AZ. The System Security Engineer – Level 4 serves as the technical authority responsible for defining, governing, and validating the entire security posture of a complex missile weapon system across its full lifecycle. This includes enterprise-level security decisions, AT strategy, Cybersecurity architecture, Program Protection, exportability, supply‑chain assurance, and survivability against highly capable adversaries.

Responsibilities include setting the technical direction for the program, mentoring engineering staff, leading major design reviews, interfacing directly with the customer community, and ensuring compliance with all relevant regulations, guidance, and DoD policies.

• Serve as the technical authority for System Security Engineering (SSE), (Use the "Apply for this Job" box below). Cybersecurity, Exportability, and Program Protection across a major missile/weapon program. Develop overarching security architecture, strategy, and implementation roadmap.
• Lead the identification and classification of Critical Program Information (CPI), perform advanced threat and vulnerability assessments, and define risk acceptance criteria and trade‑offs balancing security, cost, performance, and schedule.
• Author, review, and approve key security program artifacts:
  Program Protection Plan (PPP), System Security Plan (SSP), Security Classification Guide (SCG), AT Plan, Exportability Assessment, supply‑chain risk assessments, and other compliance/regulatory documentation.
• Oversee implementation of security controls across the system development life cycle (design, integration, production, sustainment). Ensure counter‑measures are effective and compliance with DoD and NIST guidance (e.g., NIST SP 800‑160, RMF, DoD AT policies).
• Lead Verification & Validation (V&V), security testing, and certification/authorization processes, including risk acceptance documentation and periodic security reviews.
• Serve as mentor and technical leader across SSE, AT, and Cybersecurity teams; provide guidance, training, and oversight to mid‑ and junior‑level engineers. Interface regularly with program management, system engineers, leadership, and customer stakeholders to communicate security posture, risk, and mitigation strategy.

• Bachelor’s degree with 8 years of professional experience;
  Master’s degree with 6 years of professional experience.
• Demonstrated experience with Anti‑Tamper design and implementation for protection of CPI on classified DoD programs; deep working knowledge of DoD and NIST processes/frameworks (e.g., DoD AT policy, NIST SP 800‑160, RMF).
• Proven track record of leading security architecture for embedded weapon systems, overseeing risk assessments, counter‑measure design, security documentation creation, and evaluation of hardware/firmware/software components for compliance and secure operation.
• Must have ability to obtain DoD Secret (or higher) clearance.
• U.S. citizenship.
• Strong leadership, communication, and cross‑discipline collaboration skills; ability to interface with senior management, program leads, customers, and multi‑discipline engineering teams.

• Prior experience authoring and leading Program Protection Plans, Security Classification Guides, AT Plans, Exportability Assessments, Supply‑Chain Risk Management, and other program‑level security documents.
• Demonstrated success delivering security for complex…