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Principal Systems Engineer - Software

Northrop Grumman

$110,300 - $206,000
Sep 25, 2025
Aurora, CO, USA
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Northrop Grumman Space Systems is seeking a Principal Systems Engineer or a Sr. Principal Systems Engineer to support a program, providing skills and innovative technologies to develop, design, produce, and sustain optimized product lines across the sector while providing a decisive advantage to the warfighter.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science or other STEM related degree with 5 years of relevant experience; 3 years of relevant experience with a Master's; 0 years of relevant experience with a PhD.
  • Must have an active Top Secret/SCI clearance at the time of application and willingness to sit for a polygraph
  • Ability to decompose requirements and understanding impacts to current software architecture
  • Ability to create/decompose new software requirements
  • Ability to partner with Integrated Product Team (IPT) to ensure alignment between design engineering and common software.
  • Demonstrated software design experience beyond novice familiarity
  • Experience with Model Base Systems Engineering (MBSE) and CAMEO tools

Responsibilities

  • Performs technical planning, system integration, verification and validation, cost and risk, and supportability and effectiveness analyses for total systems.
  • Analyses are performed at all levels of total system product to include: concept, design, fabrication, test, installation, operation, maintenance and disposal.
  • Ensures the logical and systematic conversion of customer or product requirements into total systems solutions that acknowledge technical, schedule, and cost constraints.
  • Performs functional analysis, timeline analysis, detail trade studies, requirements allocation and interface definition studies to translate customer requirements into hardware and software specifications.
  • Maintain existing operations procedures up-to-date to also include lessons learned from real-time performance.
  • Develop new procedures as required.
  • Interface with program and customer personnel.

Other

  • U.S. Citizenship is required for all positions with a government clearance and certain other restricted positions.
  • Must be willing to travel up to 10% of the time
  • Must be willing to sit for a polygraph
  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science or other STEM related degree
  • Active TS/SCI with poly