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Northrop Grumman

Builds stealth bombers, missiles, and satellites

Principal Systems Engineer 3

Aerospace EngineeringConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeSan Diego, CA, USA

About the Job

Requirements

  • A Bachelor of Science degree in a STEM discipline and 5 years of engineering experience, or a Master's degree in a STEM discipline and 3 years of engineering experience.
  • Ability to obtain and maintain a Department of Defense Secret clearance.
  • Ability to work effectively on cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and perform requirements engineering activities across the full lifecycle, including decomposition, analysis, documentation, allocation, traceability, change management, verification, and validation.
  • Work with customers, program leadership, and technical teams to capture and clarify operational concepts, use cases, and stakeholder needs.
  • Develop and maintain system and subsystem requirements specifications, interface control documents, and related engineering artifacts.
  • Establish and maintain bidirectional traceability between stakeholder requirements, system requirements, design elements, and test cases in requirements management tools.
  • Support architecture and design efforts by ensuring requirements are well-structured, testable, and aligned to program constraints and objectives.
  • Drive requirements baselining and change control processes, and assess the impact of requirement changes on cost, schedule, and technical performance.
  • Collaborate with test and integration teams to define verification methods, including analysis, test, inspection, and demonstration, and ensure requirements are fully verified and validated.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience on airborne intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance, mission systems, or tactical communications programs.
  • Hands-on experience defining and managing requirements for complex, multidisciplinary systems spanning software, hardware, networks, and integration.
  • Experience with Model-Based Systems Engineering approaches and tools.
  • Familiarity with government or industry standards relevant to AISR&T, including military standards, interface standards, and security or cybersecurity requirements.
  • Familiarity with requirements management tools such as DOORS, DOORS Next, Jama, or Cameo/MBSE, and standard requirements practices.

About the Company

Northrop Grumman

Builds stealth bombers, missiles, and satellites

Northrop Grumman builds military aircraft, missiles, rocket motors, satellites, and electronic systems, mostly for the American military and allied governments. It designed the B-2 stealth bomber and built NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, the largest telescope ever sent to space. The company works through four businesses: aircraft, missiles and ammunition, radar and communications systems, and space hardware such as satellites and solid rocket boosters. Most revenue comes from long-term government contracts, many of them classified. Its roots go back to Northrop Aircraft, founded in 1939, and it took its name after buying Grumman in 1994 and is based in Falls Church, Virginia.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Falls Church, VA
Founded
1939

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