Principal Systems Engineer

At Northrop Grumman, our employees have incredible opportunities to work on revolutionary systems that impact people's lives around the world today, and for generations to come. Our pioneering and inventive spirit has enabled us to be at the forefront of many technological advancements in our nation's history - from the first flight across the Atlantic Ocean, to stealth bombers, to landing on the moon. We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage and a pioneering spirit to join forces to invent the future, and have fun along the way. Our culture thrives on intellectual curiosity, cognitive diversity and bringing your whole self to work — and we have an insatiable drive to do what others think is impossible. Our employees are not only part of history, they're making history. At the heart of Defining Possible is our commitment to missions. In rapidly changing global security environments, Northrop Grumman brings informed insights and software-secure technology to enable strategic planning. We’re looking for innovators who can help us keep building on our wide portfolio of secure, affordable, integrated, and multi-domain systems and technologies that fuel those missions. By joining in our shared mission, we’ll support yours of expanding your personal network and developing skills, whether you are new to the field, or an industry thought leader. At Northrop Grumman, you’ll have the resources, support, and team to do some of the best work of your career. As a systems engineer for the JTAGS program, you will play a pivotal role in developing and sustaining the program’s systems and networks used for development, integration, test, training, and operations. This is a mid-level role on the Systems Engineering integrated program team (IPT), and it primarily consists of systems engineering work at the individual contributor level. On JTAGS and at Northrop Grumman, we believe strongly in providing opportunities for career growth, exposure to new disciplines, and technical and soft skill development. As such, you will have opportunities to participate in cross-functional technical projects, contribute to engineering review boards, participate in work product reviews, identify and manage risk and opportunity, work on proposal estimates, and develop new plans and procedures and methods for technical execution. If you have a passion for systems engineering and supporting the critical mission of our warfighters, JTAGS can help you take your engineering career to the next level! In this role, you will work with a team of systems engineers to execute and support all aspects of the JTAGS systems engineering lifecycle. These activities include but are not limited to: Developing, verifying, and validating system, sub-system, and component-level requirements, including tracking of verification status and artifacts Performing system and software performance analysis using Matlab-based tools to extract data from text files and compute technical performance measures Tracking problem/deficiency reports and leading investigation of root cause & corrective action in response to customer priorities Performing model-based systems engineering (MBSE) to document system architecture and its internal and external interfaces Supporting development, evaluation, verification, and validation of system design changes, ranging from minor system fixes to large-scale system capability changes Identifying and evaluating new processes, tools, capabilities, and/or resources that can be utilized to improve JTAGS systems engineering activities Helping develop and maintain systems engineering team standard operating procedures (SOPs) These skills and toolsets would be especially helpful to be successful in this role: Ability to balance a variety of duties ranging from micro-level tasks to macro-level projects Can work well independently and in a team environment Is proactive and takes ownership of all aspects of one’s assigned task or project Is driven to produce high quality results and work products Excellent written and verbal communication skills; can identify the most important aspects of a technical topic and communicate them to a non-technical audience Experience writing technical requirements, including what makes a “good” requirement, deriving or decomposing requirements from a higher level, and the different types of requirements to help form a complete specification for a system Familiarity with RHEL command line and using basic RHEL commands Experience with Matlab to write scripts and functions Experience with Atlassian Jira for documenting system issues and planning fix implementation.