Senior Staff Systems Engineer

Northrop Grumman

Senior Staff Systems Engineer at Northrop Grumman working on Sentinel Systems Engineering, integration, and test. Leading technical integration activities and providing engineering oversight within dynamic environments.

Posted 6/12/2026full-timeRoy • Utah • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $166,500 - $249,700 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

The selected candidate will work in a dynamic people-focused environment.
Understand the intent of WS integration at the highest levels and drive engineering processes & analyses to prove successful design integration and analyze for potential gaps.
Clearly demonstrate strong leadership and foundational systems engineering skills to drive process and technical gap resolution of external interfaces to achieve program and contract objectives.
Prime Technical Lead/Responsible Engineer (RE) for one of the external systems Mission Integration Threads which may include facilities, data, networks/comms, SW, HW and/or flight test readiness.
Perform technical oversight, review, approval, and accountability of ESI technical content to ensure technical rigor and quality.
Provide technical leadership, direction and mentoring to other ESI team members.
Customer Technical Interface/Liaison with the Customer – Participate in technical review boards and regular interface and relationship cultivation with Customer Chief Engineers as required.
Lead Integration activities in support of systems-of-systems integration which may include integration test planning, problem identification and reporting, integration event execution, coordination with multiple stakeholders to facilitate effective and efficient communication.
Assist in the analysis of controls with other ESI team members, and input information into various tracking tools (DOORS, CAMEO, CPLM/TeamCenter).

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s degree in STEM with 14 years of experience; 12 years of experience with a Masters’ degree in STEM; or 10 years of experience with a PhD.
Must be a U.S Citizen with an active DoD Secret (or higher) clearance (with a background investigation within the past 6 years or enrolled into Continuous Evaluation)
Ability to obtain and maintain Special Program Access (SAP/PAR).
8-10 years of experience with Product Owner and Product Manager core responsibilities
8-10 years of experience in ICBM (MMIII or Sentinel) OR complex aerospace/defense systems
4 years of experience on large scale / complex system development experience across multiple phases of a development program: preliminary design, detailed design, integration and test, verification and sell off, transition to production.
1 year of experience with Systems Engineering program milestone events (e.g., PDR, CDR)
1 year of experience working with external customers to meet program expectations in a timely and efficient manner.
1 year of experience supporting DoD contracts and/or large supplier management portfolio experience in other industries.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Medical, Dental & Vision coverage
401k
Educational Assistance
Life Insurance
Employee Assistance Programs & Work/Life Solutions
Paid Time Off
Health & Wellness Resources
Employee Discounts

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Hard Skills & Tools

systems engineeringintegration test planningtechnical oversightproblem identificationintegration event executionlarge scale system developmentverification and sell offtransition to productionProduct OwnerProduct Manager

Soft Skills

leadershipmentoringcommunicationrelationship cultivationcustomer interface

Certifications

DoD Secret clearanceSpecial Program Access