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# Principal Lead Systems Trainer - Level 3

- **Company:** Northrop Grumman
- **Location:** Aurora, CO, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $114,000.0 - $171,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Outlook, Linux, Perl (Programming Language), Python (Programming Language), MATLAB, Microsoft Office, Microsoft PowerPoint
- **Published:** July 17, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.clearancejobs.com/jobs/9038732/principal-lead-systems-trainer-level-3

## About the Role

* Approved STEM Bachelor's degree with 5 years of professional experience - OR - Approved STEM Master's degree with 3 years of professional experience - OR - Approved STEM PhD with 1 year of professional experience.

 * Must have the ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government Top Secret security clearance, SCI access, and complete a Counterintelligence Polygraph examination prior to start

 * Ability to work off and or/extended hours covering a 24/7 period of periodic rotating 12-hour shifts
 * Proven leadership experience on a project and/or team
 * Ability to utilize MS Office Tools such as Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint to execute responsibilities as needed within the role (presentations, internal/external communications, data, collection, etc.)

 * Demonstrated ability to present technical material to an audience
 * Ability to develop and maintain operational procedures, products, and training materials
 * Familiarity and practice use with Matlab, Python, and Perl scripting languages
 * Familiarity with Linux

## Description

The trainer is responsible for maintaining system level training material, training operational products, conducting training classes to new vehicle engineers & operations engineers, and seeking training improvement opportunities.

In this job, you will:

 * Maintenance of program training material related to multiple system architectures
 * Development and improvement of training products, procedures, and processes
 * Checkout of new baseline updates on the simulator to create required training updates
 * Ownership of training suite of scripts used to initialize the simulator into an operations like configuration, responsible for updating and maintaining training scripts
 * Ability to work off and or/extended hours covering a 24/7 period of periodic rotating 12-hour shifts
 * Demonstrate proficiency utilizing the software SIM to train classes
 * Cross-train into operations engineering to update products and attain crew certifications
 * May involve periodic rotating crew shifts to maintain proficiency
 * Other duties as assigned

This position is contingent upon the candidate obtaining final clearances and program access(es) within a reasonable period of time as determined by the company.


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