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# Principal Engineer Systems

- **Company:** Northrop Grumman
- **Location:** Palm Beach Gardens, FL, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $103,600.0 - $155,400.0
- **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, Jama (Software), Cisco Discovery Protocol, MagicDraw, DOORS (Software)
- **Published:** October 26, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.techcareers.com/job.asp?id=3467514308&tx=CT4038THD&pt=1&aff=0B19D771-A501-4A5E-8338-2A822B784D54&utm_source=Job%20Feed&utm_medium=textkernel&utm_campaign=DE&utm_term=0B19D771-A501-4A5E-8338-2A822B784D54

## 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 5 years of relevant experience, or master's degree in engineering with at least 3 years of experience.

 * Experience performing systems engineering activities on technical programs (requirements, design, integration, or test).
 * Experience with requirements development and management, including writing clear, testable requirements and maintaining a requirements baseline
 * Experience establishing and maintaining requirements traceability (e.g., between stakeholder needs, system requirements, lower-level requirements, design, and test).
 * Familiarity working in an MBSE environment (SysML preferred) using tools such as Cameo/MagicDraw, Rhapsody, or similar, and integrating models with requirements (e.g., DOORS).
 * Experience supporting or leading technical reviews (e.g., SRR, PDR, CDR) or equivalent design/requirements reviews.
 * Experience developing or contributing to verification and validation (V&V) plans, including mapping requirements to verification methods (test, analysis, inspection, demonstration).
 * 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.
 * Ability to obtain a secret clearance, US citizenship is a pre-requisite, * Experience with mechanical design of propulsion components or fluid or electrical systems (Solid rocket motors, valves, manifolds, ducts, thermal management hardware).
 * Experience with hands-on manufacturing.
 * Familiarity with the DoD Contracting process.
 * 2+ years of experience developing MBSE models (preferably with SysML).
 * Experience developing and executing subsystem-level verification and validation plans, including test requirements, test procedures, data review, and FMEAs.
 * Experience coordinating and developing CDRLs and other contract deliverables.
 * Active secret or higher clearance

## Description

Provide technical leadership and coordination between engineering disciplines, program management, and external stakeholders to ensure an integrated solution.

Determine 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.