Sr Principal Systems Engineer - Radar Systems
Listed on 2026-09-07
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Engineering
Systems Engineer
Sr. Principal Systems Engineer – Radar Systems
Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems is seeking a Sr. Principal Systems Engineer – Radar Systems to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals within our Systems Engineering organization. This role is located in either Oklahoma City, OK, Rancho Bernardo, CA, OR Melbourne, FL.
This Senior Principal Systems Engineer - Radar Systems position is for an individual contributor who will own the responsibility for managing and leading a team of multi-disciplinary engineers to deliver requirements and deliverables on schedule and within cost. This role has the authority to make engineering project management decisions and recommendations that have an impact on new business, program performance, design, development, and mission operations.
The selected candidate will collaborate across the engineering disciplines and technology areas to integrate and communicate technical capabilities and analyses with internal stakeholders and external customers across multiple simultaneous Modernization and Sustainment efforts.
Job Responsibilities:
- Perform requirements development, allocation, verification/validation planning and manage interface definition efforts.
- 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, and measure and report Earned Value (EV) performance.
- 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.
- Identification of resources, including staffing, required to complete product team deliverables, and communicate the need in a timely manner to enable onboarding of the resources early enough to meet program objectives. 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 that identifies, communicates, monitors, and promptly resolves conflicts across all levels of the organization.
- Manage communications with stakeholders through organized processes to ensure that department and program information is defined, collected, shared, understood, stored and retrieved in a manner that effectively meets stakeholder needs.
- Identify, orchestrate, coordinate and control the management activities and processes that integrate program interdependencies throughout their life cycle to achieve successful program completion.
We offer a 9/80 work schedule with every other Friday off, phenomenal learning opportunities, and a very friendly team environment. We are looking for self-motivated, proactive, and goal-oriented people to help us grow our services and become even better at what we do.
Basic Qualifications:
- Senior Principal Systems Engineer 4 - Bachelor's degree in a STEM discipline AND 8 years of related professional/military experience in Systems Engineering, OR a Master's degree in a STEM discipline…
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