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# Principal / Sr. Principal Systems Engineer

- **Company:** Northrop Grumman
- **Location:** Huntsville, AL, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $108,800.0 - $163,200.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Agile Methodology, Systems Engineering, Confluence, JIRA, Firmware, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Project, Software Tools, Software Requirements Analysis, Test Scripts, Atlassian Tools
- **Published:** October 5, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.clearancejobs.com/jobs/9220970/principal-sr-principal-systems-engineer

## About the Role

* Principal Systems Engineer: 5 years of experience with a Bachelors degree in STEM; 3 years with Masters; 1 with PhD
 * Sr. Principal Systems Engineer: 8 Years with STEM Bachelors degree; 6 Years with Masters; 4 Years with PhD
 * Active DoD secret clearance
 * Knowledge of Agile development processes
 * Experience operating in an Agile environment using any of the Atlassian software tool sets (JIRA, CONFLUENCE...etc.)
 * Ability to work on-site in Huntsville
 * Minimum 15% travel with potential for travel Outside the Continental United States (OCONUS), * Experience with C-UAS architectures and Northrop Grumman products
 * Experience with Lucen Timeline (formerly Office Timeline) or MS Project
 * Experience developing milestone schedules
 * Experience with customer-facing roles and leading a multi-discipline team
 * Experience developing trade studies, system requirements reviews (SRRs), preliminary design reviews (PDRs), and critical design reviews (CDRs)
 * Experience writing test reports

## Description

* Supporting System Engineering (SE) Architecture Lead for the individual architecture
 * Creating customer briefings for new equipment, obsolete equipment and technical issues
 * Supporting SE Lead with managing and tracking small test and small integration events, and developing daily status reports for the Customer
 * Supporting SE Lead in developing platform architecture level test objectives and reviewing product test objectives
 * Customer-facing during meetings with PM ACE/CUAS Network and USG Capabilities Leads
 * Supporting development and management of project milestones
 * Interfacing with other BONEs Teams on new/obsolete equipment
 * Collaborating with other BONEs Teams to develop plans for deploying hardware, software, firmware, etc.
 * Supporting SE Lead with developing and executing priorities and plans based on USG direction
 * Providing customer updates on respective projects
 * Developing test reports for release of high-priority products
 * Developing deployment recommendations for high- priority products
 * Establishing and maintaining architecture roadmap