Systems Engineer​/Princ Systems Engineer

Job Overview

Position: Systems Engineer – Northrop Grumman Space Systems

Location:

Promontory, UT (periodic assignments at Magna, UT).

• Relocation assistance may be available.
• Clearance required for start:
  No.
• Clearance type:
  Secret.
• Travel:
  Yes (10% of time).

• Work with Chief Engineers and Program Leadership to support key program objectives.
• Participate in development of new systems and system upgrades by managing architecture, requirements, verification evidence capture, and integrated change control processes.
• Ensure propulsion systems projects perform to specification, satisfy customer needs, and maintain configuration integrity throughout the lifecycle.
• Provide model‑based engineering support to multiple defense and commercial contracts, including Sentinel and NASA Artemis missions.
• Assume project engineering, proposal support, and liaison engineering to build leadership skills.

• Support program systems engineering needs by capturing model‑based digital architecture and requirements.
• Retrieve compliance data from various sources into the systems engineering model for a defense program.
• Coordinate with customers and program team members to understand the intent and needs of the integrated system.
• Evaluate and manage customer requirements and derived flow down into subsystem and component specifications as appropriate.
• Analyze system needs and translate into verifiable performance and design requirements.
• Support associated verification approach and work with engineering teams to develop analysis and test results to support stakeholder requirements.
• Integrate customer‑directed changes into the system and facilitate implementation of changes within a change management system.
• Coordinate and communicate between multiple cross‑functional subsystem teams.
• Support capture of model architecture for model‑based integration of requirements, design, analysis, and verification.

• Understanding of requirements and basic principles of verification strategies.
• Experience and familiarity with model‑based systems engineering tools, specifically object‑oriented tools like No
  
  Magic Cameo or similar.
• Experience with architecture diagrams (structural, functional, logical) and behavior diagrams (activity, use case, etc.).
• Experience with interface management between system elements and teams.
• Experience with concept of operations (Con Ops) and product‑related strategy maps.
• Experience with digital thread methodology.
• Experience with manufacturing and quality control databases and processes.
• Ability to work on multidisciplined engineering problems.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Excellent time management and organizational skills.
• Candidate must be able to obtain and maintain secret clearance.

• Minimum 2 years of experience in Systems Engineering, Integration Design, or a related field in propulsion, preferably in a government contractor environment.
• Demonstrated experience in many aspects of aerospace design (or similar) development processes including design, analysis, testing and integration.
• Exposure to and familiarity with MBSE approaches and tools (Cameo, Doors, etc.) and some exposure to MBSE languages (SysML or UML) are required.
• Familiarity with Model Based Engineering and integration of descriptive and analytical models.

• Minimum 5 years of experience in Systems Engineering, Integration Design, or a related field in propulsion, preferably in a government contractor environment.
• Demonstrated experience in many aspects of aerospace design (or similar) development processes including design, analysis, testing and integration.
• Exposure to and familiarity with MBSE approaches and tools (Cameo, Doors, etc.) and some exposure to MBSE languages (SysML or UML) are required.
• Familiarity with Model Based Engineering and integration of descriptive and analytical models.

• Experience with capturing architecture and requirements modeling in MBSE tools.
• Experience developing plans and detailed schedules to accomplish an engineering effort.
• Familiarity with structural, mechanical, thermal dynamics, fluid…