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# 2027 Associate Systems Engineer - Annapolis MD

- **Company:** Northrop Grumman
- **Location:** Annapolis, MD, United States
- **Experience:** Starter
- **Salary:** $72,700.0 - $109,100.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Systems Engineering, Logic Synthesis of Circuits, Software Requirements Analysis, Verification and Validation (Software), Systems Architecture
- **Published:** October 13, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.clearancejobs.com/jobs/9244126/2027-associate-systems-engineer-annapolis-md

## About the Role

Basic Qualifications for an Associate Systems Engineer:

 * Be completing or has completed their Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution

 * Be majoring in Math, Physics, Systems Engineering, Optical Engineering, or a closely related STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Math) degree.

 * Be able to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government security clearance (U.S. citizenship is a pre-requisite) as well as Program Special access within a reasonable period of time, as determined by the company to meet its business needs (U.S. citizenship is a pre-requisite)

Basic Qualifications

Basic Qualifications for a Systems Engineer:

 * Be completing or has completed their Master's degree from an accredited institution

 * Be majoring in Math, Physics, Systems Engineering, Optical Engineering, or a closely related STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Math) degree.

 * Be able to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government security clearance (U.S. citizenship is a pre-requisite) as well as Program Special access within a reasonable period of time, as determined by the company to meet its business needs (U.S. citizenship is a pre-requisite)

Preferred Qualifications:

 * Have an overall cumulative GPA of 3.00/4.0 or higher
 * A current/active US Government Secret clearance

## Description

You'll have the opportunity to work within multi-disciplined teams to perform one or more of the following functions (exact work scope will be based on program assignment and project phase):

 * Establishing mission vignettes and sensor/platform performance models to assess probability of detection and probability of engagement in mission engineering studies

 * Interpret top level requirements to create system requirements and decompose into subsystem requirements in support of product design and verification planning

 * Support system architecture development to address known customer needs through efficient and novel solutioning and generation of associated design artifacts including Concept of Operations (CONOPs), trade studies / analysis of alternatives, and definition and management of interfaces

 * Establish and integrate components of a digital design thread

 * Plan and execute integration, test, verification and validation

 * Support the preparation of technical and programmatic data packages for presentation to program, company, and customer stakeholders for internal and external informal and milestone reviews

 * Develop content and present during milestone reviews including Systems Requirement Review (SRR), Preliminary Design Review (PDR), Critical Design Review (CDR), Test Readiness Review (TRR), Consent to Ship Review (CSR).