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# Sentinel Principal/Sr Principal Systems Engineer

- **Company:** Northrop Grumman
- **Location:** Roy, UT, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $98,400.0 - $147,600.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Systems Engineering, Configuration Management, SAP (Applications), Verification and Validation (Software), Test Data, Hardware Testing, Modeling and Simulation
- **Published:** October 26, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.techcareers.com/job.asp?id=3472166145&tx=KJ1919FFG&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

* T04 - Bachelor's degree in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) discipline with a minimum 8 years of related experience; 6 years with a Master's; or 4 years with a PhD
 * T03 - Bachelor's degree in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) discipline with a minimum 5 years of related experience; 3 years with a Master's; or 1 years with a PhD
 * Must be a US Citizen with an active U.S. Government DoD Secret security clearance at time of application with an investigation completed within the last 6 years
 * Must have the ability to obtain and maintain Special Access Program (SAP) approval within a reasonable period of time, as determined by the company to meet its business need
 * 1 year of technical experiences in mechanical/aerospace product development
 * Experience with analytical techniques for requirements verification
 * Experience in systems engineering principles including requirements development, decomposition and allocation, MBSE (CAMEO or similar)
 * Knowledge of configuration management systems and principles

Preferred Qualifications:

 * Extensive Knowledge of Systems Engineering principles
 * Self-starter with strong technical problem-solving skills, an aptitude for coordination across diverse teams to drive efforts to closure
 * Broad technical experiences in mechanical/aerospace engineering of missiles/launch vehicles
 * Experience with Modeling & Simulation (M&S) verification and validation (MIL-STD-3022)
 * Experience with Hardware testing, test planning, test data objectives, Test instrumentation, Design of Experiments methodologies
 * Excellent communication, interpersonal skills, and the ability to interface with all levels of employees and management

## Description

As an integral part of our AVE MS&A Horizontal Integration team on the Sentinel program you will focus on driving operational and technical efforts and initiatives across the MS&A department and broader AVE Systems Engineering & Integration organization. The duties of this job will be to integrate across the various AVE MS&A teams; Flight Analysis, Targeting, Structures and Aero/Fluids to help coordinate activities/analysis that cross these disciplines. The role will also include horizontal integration across other IPTs with in AVE, such as Guidance, Payloads, OBTE, etc. The selected candidate will be required to have ability to present difficult concepts to management and to lead integrated efforts to get results across the finish line