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Principal/Sr. Principal Systems Engineer Mission Thread Lead – Top Secret (Space Systems)

In Person (Dulles, Virginia, United States of America)
Full Time
$110,300 – $165,500
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Location:
Dulles, Virginia, United States of America

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Northrop Grumman Space Systems Sector, Tactical Space Systems Division (TSSD), Phoenix program is seeking a qualified Principal or Senior Principal Systems Engineer for the role of Mission Systems Thread Lead for a Mission Integration program. This position is located in Dulles, VA. Successful candidates for this position will work in a technical thread lead role on Phoenix for the Space Security business area. This position offers the opportunity to work on exciting, cutting-edge programs and new mission areas.

Duties/Responsibilities:

  • Develop and review requirements, verification plans, and architecture at all levels of the System

  • Ensures the logical and systematic conversion of customer or product requirements into total systems solutions that acknowledge technical, schedule, and cost constraints

  • Performs functional analysis, timeline analysis, detail trade studies, requirements allocation, and interface definition studies to translate customer requirements into lower level specifications

  • Integrate complex design elements across multiple teams and vendors of the Phoenix program

  • Coordinate with all levels of the program to ensure a comprehensive system design

  • Ensure ground system software teams are developing and design their content that meet the system requirements

  • Provide subject matter expertise for the Thread to the program

  • Brief program leadership, customers, and stakeholders on the on the Thread

  • Engage in formal and informal mentoring to support knowledge transfer and talent development.

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Basic Qualifications:

  • Principal Engineer Level (T3) - B.S. in STEM - Science, Technology, Engineering, Math or related area and 5 years of experience; M.S. in STEM or related area and 3 years of experience.

  • Senior Principal Engineer Level (T4) - B.S. in STEM - Science, Technology, Engineering, Math or related area and 8 years of experience; M.S. in STEM or related area and 6 years of experience

  • Must have US Citizenship with current or active Top Secret clearance with ability to obtain SCI clearance at time of application

  • Experience in requirements management, system architecture development, and CONOPs.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Active or current TS/SCI U.S. Government Security Clearance

  • Experience coordinating the efforts of diverse stakeholders.

  • Proficiency in any modeling and simulation tools: Cameo, STK, Matlab, AFSIM, Python

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