Systems Engineer, Level 5
Northrop Grumman
Systems Engineer – Level 3/4
Northrop Grumman
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Morrisville • Maryland, North Carolina • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $100,300 - $196,700 per year
Job Level
Junior
About the role
- Support the development and maturation of Ground System designs and architecture as the program progresses
- Contribute to the refinement of the system's technical baseline by mapping requirements to models, updating system design artifacts, and verifying compliance with customer requirements using industry-standard tools and processes
- Work collaboratively with cross-disciplinary teams, ensuring the successful execution of deliverables to meet program milestones
- Provide Systems Engineering oversight and coordination with a variety in internal and external teams to architecture aligns with requirements
- Lead in the maturation of Ground System design and architecture to meet PDR/CDR-level requirements
- Develop and maintain system models in CAMEO, ensuring requirements are mapped, aligned, and traceable to architecture and design
- Update and finalize Internal Block Diagrams (IBDs), Activity Diagrams, and other critical system design artifacts
- Interface closely with Requirements Management and Engineering teams to ensure verification planning and execution aligns with customer requirements
- Support requirements sell-off and provide technical input to ensure compliance with contractual obligations
- Engage in architecture design reviews and contribute to technical problem-solving efforts to mitigate risks and resolve issues
- This position is contingent upon clearance verification and transfer to the NG sponsored program as well as continued ability to maintain required clearance level
Requirements
- Requires an active Top-Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) clearance at time of application
- U.S. Citizenship is required for all positions with a government clearance and certain other restricted positions
- Level 3 : Bachelor’s degree in a STEM field with 5 years of professional experience (excluding internships, research projects, etc.); Master’s degree in a STEM field with 3 years of professional experience; PhD in a STEM field with 1 year of professional experience
- Level 4 : Bachelor’s degree in a STEM field with 8 years of professional experience; Master’s degree in a STEM field with 6 years of professional experience; PhD in a STEM field with 4 years of professional experience
- Demonstrated experience in CAMEO or other Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) tools for architecture design
- Expertise in architecting systems and developing requirements to support system designs
- Hands-on experience with interpreting and mapping requirements into implementable models and configurations
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Verification and Validation (V&V) experience (preferred)
- Strong understanding of Verification Artifacts Matrix (VAM) development and applications (preferred)
- Experience with requirements sell-off, including customer and stakeholder engagements (preferred)
- Systems engineering experience supporting PDR/CDR-level design or later lifecycle phases (preferred)
- Familiarity with configuration management approaches and best practices in system development (preferred)
- Willingness to travel ~10% of the time
- Must be able to work a 9/80 schedule
Benefits
- Relocation assistance may be available
- health insurance coverage
- life and disability insurance
- savings plan
- Company paid holidays
- paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business
- Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime
- shift differential
- a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay
- Annual bonuses
- Long Term Incentives (for Vice President or Director positions)
- comprehensive Total Rewards and benefits package
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
CAMEOModel-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE)requirements mappingsystem design artifactsVerification and Validation (V&V)Verification Artifacts Matrix (VAM)architecture designrequirements sell-offconfiguration managementsystem modeling
Soft skills
communication skillscollaborationproblem-solvingleadershiporganizational skills
Certifications
Top-Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) clearance