
Principal Systems Engineer (MBSE)
Required skills
- Secret clearance
- SAP clearance
- Systems Engineering
- MBSE
- Cameo
- DOORS
- Python
- Requirements development
- Interface definition
- Specifications
Nice to have
- military aircraft
- weapon system design
- requirements verification
- requirement decomposition
- traceability
- HW/SW integration testing
Role summary
Northrop Grumman is seeking a Principal Systems Engineer (MBSE) for an individual contributor role within a multi-disciplinary engineering team. Responsibilities include research, requirements development, model development, interface definition, and analysis within an Integrated Product Team (IPT) structure. The role involves collaborating across engineering disciplines to integrate and communicate technical capabilities with internal and external stakeholders on modernization and sustainment efforts. Key tasks include developing MBSE artifacts using Cameo, performing requirements management with tools like DOORS, writing specifications, and maintaining Systems Engineering artifacts under configuration management. A STEM degree with 5 years of experience, or a Master's with 3 years, or a PhD with 1 year is required, along with the ability to obtain a Secret and SAP clearance. Experience with Python and DOORS is also required.
Description
At Northrop Grumman, our employees have incredible opportunities to work on revolutionary systems that impact people's lives around the world today, and for generations to come. Our pioneering and inventive spirit has enabled us to be at the forefront of many technological advancements in our nation's history - from the first flight across the Atlantic Ocean, to stealth bombers, to landing on the moon. We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage and a pioneering spirit to join forces to invent the future, and have fun along the way. Our culture thrives on intellectual curiosity, cognitive diversity and bringing your whole self to work — and we have an insatiable drive to do what others think is impossible. Our employees are not only part of history, they're making history.Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems is seeking a Principal Systems Engineer to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals within our Systems Engineering organization.
This Principal Systems Engineer position is for 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.
The selected candidate 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:
- Develop MBSE artifacts using Cameo
- Perform requirements development, allocation, verification/validation planning and manage interface definition efforts.
- 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.
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in a STEM discipline AND 5 years of related professional/military experience in Systems Engineering, OR a Master’s degree in a STEM discipline AND 3 Years of related professional/military experience in Systems Engineering, OR a PhD in a STEM discipline AND in a STEM discipline AND 1 Year of related professional/military experience in Systems Engineering
- Ability to obtain a DOD Secret clearance
- Ability to obtain and maintain Special Access Program (SAP) clearance.
- Experience interpreting, deriving, allocating, or managing technical requirements
- Experience with Python or other scripting language
- Experience with DOORS
- Experience with Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE)
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with military aircraft or weapon system design and/or operation to include requirements verification and certification.
- Experience with requirement decomposition and traceability from System to Unit/Supplier Specifications
- Experience with Cameo
- Experience with software development
- Experience with HW/SW integration testing
- Experience with Agile execution
- Experience with managing suppliers with technical requirements and verification expectations
- Experience with DOORS DXL and DOORS administration
- Experience with Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment software development for Aircraft Sustainment efforts
- Active DoD Secret or Top Secret Clearance
- Active/current SAP clearance (any SAP)
Sample Northrop Grumman interview questions
- 1
Can you discuss the role of reusability and scalability in UVM's verification approach?
technicalmedium - 2
Can you detail the function of a register table within embedded system design?
technicalmedium - 3
Could you outline how virtual memory is implemented in embedded systems and its advantages?
system designmedium - 4
Can you discuss the role and functionality of a watchdog timer?
system designmedium - 5
What is your understanding of polymorphism in SystemVerilog?
technicalmedium
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