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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Staff Engineer Systems - **Company:** Northrop Grumman - **Location:** Elkton, MD, United States - **Experience:** Experienced - **Salary:** $161,000.0 - $241,400.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Systems Engineering, JIRA, Failure Mode Effects Analysis, Rhapsody, Requirements Management, Requirements Traceability, Software Requirements Analysis, Verification and Validation (Software), Systems Modeling Language, Systems Integration, Jama (Software), MagicDraw, DOORS (Software) - **Published:** September 6, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.clearancejobs.com/jobs/9146947/staff-engineer-systems ## About the Role Demonstrate excellent written and verbal communication skills, strong social skills, and ability to build consensus among peers while building solid relationships with team members., * Bachelor's degree in engineering or a STEM-related discipline with at least 12 years of relevant experience, or master's degree in engineering with at least 10 years of experience, or PhD in engineering with at least 8 years of experience. * Demonstrated technical leadership (technical lead, IPT lead, SEIT Lead, deputy chief engineer, Lead Systems Engineer, or equivalent) on complex aerospace or weapon system programs. * Experience with requirements development and management, including writing clear, testable requirements and maintaining a requirements baseline. * Experience establishing and maintaining full requirements traceability (e.g., between stakeholder needs, system requirements, functional/physical architecture, lower-level requirements, and verification). * Familiarity working in and directing scope in an MBSE environment (SysML preferred) using tools such as Cameo/MagicDraw, Rhapsody, or similar, and integrating models with requirements (e.g., DOORS). * Experience leading technical reviews (e.g., SRR, PDR, CDR) or equivalent design/requirements reviews. * Experience developing verification and validation (V&V) plans, including mapping requirements to verification methods (test, analysis, inspection, demonstration). * Experience leading system integration and formal product qualification. * Demonstrated ability to work across multi-disciplinary engineering teams to resolve requirements and design issues. * Experience with at least one requirements management tool (e.g., DOORS, Jama, JIRA, or similar). * Demonstrated problem-solving and analytical skills, including ability to identify risks/issues and propose mitigations. * Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to clearly document technical information and present to stakeholders. * Must be able to obtain a secret clearance, US citizenship is a pre-requisite Preferred Qualifications * Experience with mechanical design of propulsion components or fluid or electrical systems (Solid rocket motors, valves, manifolds, ducts, thermal management hardware). * Experience acting as a Control Account Manager (CAM) for scope assigned, delivering all team deliverables on time and within cost, while meeting contractual programmatic and technical requirements and stakeholder expectations, and measure and report Earned Value (EV) performance. * Experience with hands-on manufacturing (Elkton Only) . * 4 + years of experience developing MBSE models (preferably with SysML). * Direct experience interacting with DoD or International customers. * Experience developing and executing subsystem-level verification and validation plans, including test requirements, test procedures, data review, and FMEAs. * Active secret or higher clearance ## Description Provide technical leadership and coordination between engineering disciplines, program management, and external stakeholders to ensure an integrated solution. Own the system technical baseline and ensure alignment across requirements, architecture, interfaces, verification, and program execution. Plan and own systems engineering tasks required for project planning and execution, communicate milestones and need dates to program leads. Produce and maintain key systems engineering artifacts (Requirements specifications, ICDs, V&V matrices, logical/physical/functional architecture, and verification technical reports) in a model-based systems engineering environment (CAMEO). Define and plan, testing activities in conjunction with propulsion engineering, including propulsion tests at the Elkton campus, Ronkonkoma campus, or external ranges. Define and maintain a requirements decomposition strategy across subsystems and disciplines. Lead requirements and architecture reviews (PDR, CDR-level artifacts) to ensure completeness, consistency, feasibility, and testability. Lead Risk and Opportunity meetings on behalf of technical and programmatic team. 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