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# Senior Principal Systems Engineer - NATO ISS SEIT IPT Lead

- **Company:** Northrop Grumman
- **Location:** San Diego, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $142,200.0 - $213,400.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Systems Engineering, Configuration Management, SAP (Applications), Verification and Validation (Software), Systems Integration
- **Published:** August 1, 2026
- **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/F6BC72DB0712405E8FBA4CE042860A5E/job/

## About the Role

* Must have a Bachelors of Science degree in a STEM field and at least 8 years of relevant military / professional experience, OR a Master's Degree in a STEM field and at least 6 years of relevant military / professional experience, OR a PhD and at least 4 years of relevant military / professional experience
 * Must have SEIT experience
 * Must have an active US Government Secret or higher clearance (with a background investigation completed within the last 6 years or currently enrolled into Continuous Evaluation).
 * Must have the ability to obtain and maintain Special Access Program (SAP) clearance within a reasonable amount of time as determined by business needs., * Experience with RQ-4 air vehicle, ground segment, sensor payloads, COMMS and support equipment
 * Experience with International customer
 * Experience managing Technical Baselines (Functional and Allocated Baselines)
 * Experience conducting end to end system integration, verification and validation
 * Experience in EVMS (CAM certification)

## Description

In this role, you will fill the role of System Engineer for the NATO Business Area. You will be responsible for leading a diverse engineering team to provide imaginative, technical solutions to a wide range of difficult problems. You will be working across the entire spectrum of the Systems Engineering V-Model, and will support SE disciplines including requirements development, use case development, capability (hardware and software) development, integration planning, lab integration, test planning, formal test, and verification.

Essential Functions/ Responsibilities:

 * Lead a team of ~10 engineers and analysts in managing a program technical baseline including technical configuration, hardware/software compatibility analysis and change management
 * Demonstrate understanding of Technical Configuration principles
 * Lead team through Change Control Board (CCB), Technical Review Board (TRB) and Engineering Change Process (ECP) processes
 * Coordinate with Customer to understand configuration changes and their associated impacts to overall program
 * Communicate efficiently and effectively with System Engineering lead, Program Managers / Chief Engineers, and customers on the Technical Baseline, change process, assessment of the impacts to the proposed changes.
 * Provide coaching, leadership and guidance to effectively motivate assigned team in task execution
 * Manage and track all engineering changes, their impact across all program areas, and understand how they affect the configuration
 * Lead development of Service Bulletin Implementation


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