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# Principal Lead Systems Trainer

- **Company:** NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION
- **Location:** Aurora, CO, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $114,000 - $171,000
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Outlook, Linux, Perl (Programming Language), Python (Programming Language), MATLAB, Microsoft Office, Microsoft PowerPoint
- **Published:** November 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://find.jobs/jobs-near-me/apply/ats-redirect/?id=3051636662-2

## About the Role

* Approved STEM Bachelor's degree with 5 years of professional experience - OR - Approved STEM Master's degree with 3 years of professional experience - OR - Approved STEM PhD with 1 year of professional experience.

 * Requires an active Top-Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) clearance at time of application. Counterintelligence (CI) Polygraph required prior to start.

 * Ability to work off and or/extended hours covering a 24/7 period of periodic rotating 12-hour shifts
 * Proven leadership experience on a project and/or team
 * Ability to utilize MS Office Tools such as Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint to execute responsibilities as needed within the role (presentations, internal/external communications, data, collection, etc.), * Demonstrated ability to present technical material to an audience
 * Ability to develop and maintain operational procedures, products, and training materials
 * Familiarity and practice use with Matlab, Python, and Perl scripting languages
 * Familiarity with Linux

## Description

This position is contingent upon capturing program award(s), obtaining and maintaining customer funding, and holding final clearances (if applicable) prior to start date

The trainer is responsible for maintaining system level training material, training operational products, conducting training classes to new vehicle engineers & operations engineers, and seeking training improvement opportunities.

In this job, you will:

 * Maintenance of program training material related to multiple system architectures
 * Development and improvement of training products, procedures, and processes
 * Checkout of new baseline updates on the simulator to create required training updates
 * Ownership of training suite of scripts used to initialize the simulator into an operations like configuration, responsible for updating and maintaining training scripts
 * Ability to work off and or/extended hours covering a 24/7 period of periodic rotating 12-hour shifts
 * Demonstrate proficiency utilizing the software SIM to train classes
 * Cross-train into operations engineering to update products and attain crew certifications
 * May involve periodic rotating crew shifts to maintain proficiency
 * Other duties as assigned

This position is contingent upon the candidate obtaining final clearances and program access(es) within a reasonable period of time as determined by the company.

Please be aware that this position will be contingent upon capturing program award(s), obtaining and maintaining customer funding, and holding final clearances (if applicable) prior to start date.