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Principal Engineer Aeronautical - Air Vehicle Subsystems Design and Analysis

Northrop Grumman

$110,300 - $206,000
Oct 1, 2025
Escondido, CA, USA
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Northrop Grumman Aeronautic Systems is seeking a Principal Engineer Aeronautical OR Senior Principal Engineer Aeronautical to join the Air Vehicle Subsystems Design and Analysis team to support the Triton program and related family of platforms for various military and international programs.

Requirements

  • Work experience using Thermal Desktop, Flowmaster, Amesim, Simhydaulics, SINDA/Fluint, and/or MATLAB.
  • Previous direct experience with aircraft fuel, hydraulic, liquid cooling, and/or environmental control systems.
  • Experience coordinating with suppliers for hardware development, testing, and qualification.
  • Experience with conceptual operation, integration and troubleshooting of typical aircraft subsystems
  • Experience with Siemens Teamcenter.
  • Experience interfacing with military and international customers.

Responsibilities

  • Performing system related analysis in support of the development of aircraft subsystems as well as the integration of aircraft avionics and the installation of various aircraft hardware.
  • Sustainment engineering support for a fleet of fielded aircraft to include ground and flight test support, data analysis, troubleshooting anomalies, performing failure investigations, coordinating with hardware/software subcontractors for issue resolution, supporting spares and repairs, and integrating with other functions and disciplines.
  • Participation on a subcontractor management team and acting as the technical point of contact with suppliers for hardware development, testing, qualification, and procurement.
  • Supporting the mechanical subsystems integrity program to assess and resolve deficiencies related to mission reliability, FMECA/testability, functional hazards, and subsystem safety hazards.
  • Test planning, execution support, verification, data processing, and troubleshooting.
  • System level evaluations to verify requirements and ensure airworthiness criteria are met.
  • Documentation development and release, data management, and proposal and change process coordination.

Other

  • RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available
  • CLEARANCE TYPE: Secret
  • TRAVEL: Yes, 10% of the Time
  • Must have the ability to obtain and maintain a Active DoD Secret or higher clearance, as well as, a Special Access Program (SAP) clearance within a reasonable amount of time as determined by the company to meet its business needs
  • Ability to work both independently or as part of a team, and effective at interfacing with different functions and different levels of internal/external leadership.