Staff Engineer, Systems

Northrop Grumman

. Performs technical planning, system integration, verification and validation .

Posted 4/28/2026full-timeFairfax • Maryland, Virginia • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $169,000 - $265,600 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Performs technical planning, system integration, verification and validation
cost and risk, and supportability and effectiveness analyses for total systems
Ensures the logical and systematic conversion of customer or product requirements into total systems solutions
Performs functional analysis, timeline analysis, detail trade studies, requirements allocation and interface definition studies
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

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or other STEM related degree
12 years of relevant experience; 10 years of relevant experience with a Master's; 8 years of relevant experience with a PhD
Must have an active Top Secret/SCI clearance at the time of application
Experience in systems engineering
requirements
test plan/strategy
Strong written and oral communications skills

Benefits

Comp & perks

health insurance coverage
life and disability insurance
savings plan
Company paid holidays
paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business

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Hard Skills & Tools

systems engineeringfunctional analysistimeline analysisrequirements allocationinterface definitionverification and validationcost analysisrisk analysissupportability analysiseffectiveness analysis

Soft Skills

strong written communicationstrong oral communication

Certifications

Top Secret/SCI clearance