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# Associate Systems Engineer

- **Company:** Northrop Grumman
- **Location:** Plymouth, MN, United States
- **Experience:** Starter
- **Salary:** $72,700.0 - $109,100.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Adobe InDesign, Systems Engineering, Cyber Security, Microsoft Office, Systems Development Life Cycle
- **Published:** September 19, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerjet.com/job/us13b6beb3e4979d23c94e53104bd8a936/eaa

## About the Role

* Bachelor of Science Degree in Engineering discipline or relevant STEM field

1-2 years of Engineering experience highly desired * US Citizenship

 * Ability to obtain a DOD Secret clearance.
 * Strong interest to work closely with engineers from various engineering disciplines. These disciplines include Systems, Mechanical, Electrical, Software, and Production Engineering.
 * Strong interest to learn a wide variety of skills across multiple engineering domains. These engineering domains include: Systems Safety, Reliability, Availability, Maintainability, Product Cybersecurity, Integrated Logistics Support, Product Support, Human Factors, and Unit Production Cost Modeling
 * Familiarity with standard Microsoft Office products and ability to learn new toolsets.
 * Strong verbal and written communication and interpersonal skills, * Experience leading technical efforts
 * Experience mentoring others
 * Experience planning, executing, and on-time delivery of customer deliverables
 * Experience performing engineering analyses (e.g. Hazard Analysis, FMECA, FTA, etc.)
 * Aerospace and defense product experience
 * Experience with MIL-STD-882E System Safety, or equivalent system safety standard
 * Relevant Specialty Engineering domain experience (e.g. Safety, Maintainability, Reliability, Cybersecurity etc.)
 * Certification in a relevant engineering domain or discipline (e.g. CSP, CISSP, CSEP, CRE, etc.)
 * Experience presenting technical information to large audiences

## Description

* Work with team members to plan and execute specialty engineering tasks from the Specialty Engineering domains to support a wide variety of programs. Specialty Engineering domains include: Systems Safety, Reliability, Availability, Maintainability, Product Cybersecurity, Integrated Logistics Support, Product Support, Human Factors, and Unit Production Cost Modeling.
 * Perform detailed Specialty Engineering analyses in close collaboration with design engineering throughout weapon system development programs. Examples are: Failure Mode Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMECA), Fault Tree Analysis (FTA), and System Hazard Analysis (SHA).
 * Lead Safety Programs from planning to successful safety acceptance with Safety Review Boards.
 * Perform as a lead Specialty Engineer in design reviews, failure investigations, and customer working group meetings.
 * Support bidding and proposal work in collaboration with Specialty Engineering Manager.
 * Work with Systems Design Engineering team to define, track, and verify requirements that support system development objectives tied to specialty engineering domains.
 * Work with Test Engineering and Environmental Health & Safety (EH&S) to define processes and procedures that permit safe conduct and execution of test events and manufacturing of systems.


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