Principal or Sr. 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.

The Advanced Programs Team looks 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 we have an insatiable drive to do what others think is impossible. Our employees are not only part of history, they are making history.

Northrop Grumman Space Systems is looking for you to join our team as a Systems Engineer 3/4 based out of Boulder, CO. You will be responsible for ensuring design requirements at the system, subsystem, and component level are defined and implemented. Work will include coordinating with technical teams to understand at a high-level the complex, multi-disciplinary problems, software components, and designs implemented by the team; in addition to planning and coordinating team projects, team reviews, and customer demonstrations. You are expected to communicate technical information effectively and clearly as a technical interface to the customer, and report status to colleagues including customers and program management.
Additional responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Manage and control program and system requirements, documentation, and deliverables
• Analyze the needs of the system and translate into verifiable performance and design requirements
• Support technical proposal activities

Drives the engineering process development, continuous improvement, and affordability initiatives within their program

Basic Qualifications:

• level 3 - Bachelors degree and 5 years of experience, 3 with a masters
• Level 4 - Bachelors Degree and 9 years experience
• Active Secret Clearance
• • Experience with C/C++ software language, development tools, and integrated development environments (IDEs)
  • SW algorithm development experience for complex, mathematically intensive systems
  • DoD Secret clearance that is or has been active within the last two years
  • Ability to travel on occasion to Northrop Grumman and customer locations

Preferred Qualifications:
• Basic skills in Matlab or Python and system modeling
• Experience in tracking and prediction algorithms , simulation, validation, and algorithms
• Ground systems experience in mission processing, ground communications, and space operations
• Experience in the numerical implementation of motion filters.
• Familiarity with Overhead Persistent Infrared (OPIR) and Electro-Optical Infrared (EOIR) sensors and simulations
• Experience with PERL, STK, or logging and parsing tools
• Linux experience
• Strong statistical background and skills
• Experience with model-based engineering

Salary Range: $101,400 USD - $152,200 USD
Salary Range 2: $125,800 USD - $188,600 USD

Employees may be eligible for a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay. Annual bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions as well as allow employees to share in company results. Employees in Vice President or Director positions may be eligible for Long Term Incentives. In addition, Northrop Grumman provides a variety of benefits including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, savings plan, Company paid holidays and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business.

The health and safety of our employees and their families is a top priority. The company encourages employees to remain up-to-date on their COVID-19 vaccinations. U.S. Northrop Grumman employees may be required, in the future, to be vaccinated or have an approved disability/medical or religious accommodation, pursuant to future court decisions and/or government action on the currently stayed federal contractor vaccine mandate under Executive Order 14042 https://www.saferfederalworkforce.gov/contractors/ .

Northrop Grumman is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class. For our complete EEO/AA and Pay Transparency statement, please visit http://www.northropgrumman.com/EEO . U.S. Citizenship is required for most positions.