Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems has an opening for a Senior PrincipalSystems Engineer to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals within our Systems Engineering organization. This role is located in either Oklahoma City, OK, OR Melbourne FL, OR Rancho Bernardo, CA OR Palmdale, CA.

In the Senior PrincipalSystems Engineer position, you will be an individual contributor within a multi-disciplinary engineering team. Responsibilities include conducting research, writing requirements, developing models, defining interfaces and performing analysis while working within an Integrated Product Team (IPT) structure to drive the development of new program requirements, refine existing program requirements, and influence the pursuit of future technologies and capabilities. You 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.
• Lead major milestone events to ensure program requirements are being met and or mitigated.
• 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:

• Must have a Bachelors degree in a STEM field and at least 8 years of relevant military / professional experience, OR a Masters Degree in a STEM field and at least 6 years of relevant military / professional experience, OR a PhD and at least 4 years of relevant military / professional experience
• Must have an active US Government Secret or higher clearance (with a background investigation completed within the last 6 years or currently enrolled into Continuous Evaluation).
• Must have the ability to obtain and maintain Special Access Program (SAP) clearance within a reasonable amount of time as determined by business needs.
• Must have experience in requirements and verification management in DOORS.
• Must have experience with requirement decomposition and traceability from System to Unit/Supplier Specifications.
• Must have experience with managing suppliers with technical requirements and verification expectations.
• Must have experience with Agile execution and leading Scrum teams.
• Must have experience with Python or other scripting language.
• Must have experience managing EVMS Control Accounts as a Control Account Manager (CAM).
• Must have experience leading a technical team.
• Must have experience supporting major milestone events.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with software development.
• Experience with HW/SW integration testing.
• Experience in Cameo and traceability between architecture elements and requirements.
• Current B-2 Special Access Program (SAP) clearance.
• Experience with Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment software development for Aircraft Sustainment efforts.
• Experience with the full lifecycle of aircraft development, build, and operations
• Risk & Opportunity Management experience and change control experience.
• Experience leading cross-functional technical teams.