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# Space Payload Systems Engineer / Principal Space Payload Systems

- **Company:** Northrop Grumman
- **Location:** Baltimore, MD, United States
- **Salary:** $87,600.0 - $131,400.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Systems Engineering, Verification and Validation (Software), Systems Architecture, Modeling and Simulation
- **Published:** July 10, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.clearancejobs.com/jobs/9023387/space-payload-systems-engineer-principal-space-payload-systems

## About the Role

* Bachelor Degree in STEM curriculum with 2 years relevant experience; 0 years with MS Degree.
 * Bachelor Degree in STEM curriculum with 5 years relevant experience; 3 years with MS Degree; or PhD with 1 year of experience.
 * Must have an active t security clearance a time of application, current and within scope, with the ability to obtain and maintain SCI approval/access.
 * Systems engineering experience (i.e. requirements, mission engineering, architecture, modeling and simulation, integration and test, verification and validation)

 * Space experience
 * Sensor/payload experience:
 * Antennas
 * Radar
 * EO/IR
 * Communications
 * Processing, specifically On-Board Processing
 * Space vehicle experience
 * Space ground systems architecture and design experience
 * Mission engineering, modeling and simulation
 * Space Mission CONOPS
 * Assembly, Integration and Test (AI&T)



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