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# Principal / Sr Principal Systems Engineer - Reliability

- **Company:** Northrop Grumman
- **Location:** Palmdale, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $93,300.0 - $171,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Data Analysis, Systems Engineering, Reliability Engineering, SAP (Applications), Technical Data Management Systems, Reliability of Systems, Modeling and Simulation
- **Published:** October 2, 2026
- **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/B3E69D1871124C63BFE6EECAACDD43E2/job/

## About the Role

We are looking for self-motivated, proactive, and goal-oriented people to help us grow our services and become even better at what we do.

We offer flexible work arrangements, 9/80 work schedule with every other Friday off, phenomenal learning opportunities, exposure to a wide variety of projects and customers, and a very friendly team environment. We are looking for self-motivated, proactive, and goal-oriented people to help us grow our services and become even better at what we do., * Bachelor's Degree in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) discipline and 5 years of related engineering experience; OR a Master's degree in a STEM discipline and 3 years of related engineering experience; OR a PhD in a STEM discipline and 1 years of related engineering experience.

 * Experience in Reliability Engineering.
 * Active US Government Secret clearance (with a background investigation within the past 5 years or 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.
 * Ability to obtain and maintain subsequent SAP PARs following commencement of employment to be able to completely support statement of work., * Bachelor's Degree in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) discipline and 8 years of related engineering experience; OR a Master's degree in a STEM discipline and 6 years of related engineering experience; OR a PhD in a STEM discipline and 4 years of related engineering experience.
 * Experience in Reliability Engineering.
 * Active US Government Secret clearance (with a background investigation within the past 5 years or 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.
 * Ability to obtain and maintain subsequent SAP PARs following commencement of employment to be able to completely support statement of work.

Preferred Qualifications for Both Levels:

 * Current applicable Special Access Program (SAP) clearance.
 * Familiarity with data collection and analysis methods.
 * Demonstrated leadership of cross-functional team solving complex problems.
 * Relevant experience in adjacent logistics support elements such as Logistics Support Analysis (LSA) & Maintenance Planning, Modeling & Simulation (ModSim), Support Equipment Engineering (SEE), Prognostics & Health Management (PHM), Supportable Low Observables (SLO), Obsolescence Management, Training & Training Systems, Technical Data, Support Hardware, Fleet & Field Support, and Product Support Management.
 * ASQ Certified Reliability Engineer.
 * Experience using reliability analysis software (Reliasoft preferred).
 * Previous U.S. Military experience with operations and/or aircraft maintenance background.

## Description

Roles and Responsibilities will include:

 * Dispositioning and validating data from maintainers.
 * Working with responsible engineers to determine root cause of failure modes.
 * Working with control centers to update/correct maintainer-entered data as necessary.
 * Analyzing trending failure modes to generate recommendations.
 * Collaborate with other Product Support functions in support of wider analyses.
 * Lead customer meetings validating corrective action plan.
 * Coach team on root cause analysis and design/software change implementation.
 * Drive process improvements and streamlining.

The selected candidate will be required to work full-time, on-site at our facility. There is no remote / hybrid / telework available for this position. Travel up to 25% may be required.