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Engineer Systems - Active Interim Secret clearance
Posted 1 week ago• Business & Finance
Compensation
$77,200–$115,800/year
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Job Description
RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be availableCLEARANCE TYPE: Interim SecretTRAVEL: Yes, 10% of the Time
Description
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.Northrop Grumman Space Systems is seeking a Systems Engineer to support the Next Generation Launch Equipment (NGLE) and/or the Next Generation Interceptor Lockheed Martin (NGI LM) programs located in Chandler, AZ.
Essential Functions:
- Development, decomposition, refinement, and documentation of key requirements and capabilities
- Support overall System-level end to end performance assessments of the system, and identify/lead the resolution of systems performance gaps relative to stakeholder requirements
- Collaborate with senior systems engineers, and other disciplines to support the development of deliverables
- Generate and document system level requirements, perform vehicle performance assessments, and participate in system level verification/data review activities
- Manage requirement changes in the Requirements Management databases working effectively with IPT leaders and team members
- Create, and manage both original and revised specification/interface definition documents and coordinates document approval through peer review and signature process
- Support risk management (identifies potential risk)
- Manage aspects of system design, analyses, interface verification, testing, minor failure/anomaly resolution or mission operations.
- Participate in the creation of, and manage changes to system or subsystem analytical models
- Support the development and execution of technical reviews for the program
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in a STEM discipline (Science, Technology, Engineering or Math) with 2 years of related engineering experience; OR a Master’s degree in STEM with 0 years of related engineering experience
- U.S. Citizenship is required
- US DoD Interim Secret security clearance, or higher at the time of application
- Ability to communicate technical information clearly to both technical and nontechnical personnel
- Demonstrated experience in requirements decomposition, validation, and verification
- Able to work in a fast-paced environment with competing demands
- Strong technical problem solving, written, and verbal communication skills
- Strong resolve to drive tasks to completion autonomously
- Knowledgeable about agile principles and have demonstrated the ability to facilitate an agile development process
Preferred Qualifications:
- MBSE experience (Cameo or similar)
- US DoD Secret security clearance, or higher at the time of application
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Job Details
- Category
- Business & Finance
- Employment Type
- Full time
- Location
- 2625 W. Geronimo Place, Chandler, AZ 85224, US
- Posted
- Jan 5, 2026, 07:00 PM
- Listed
- Jan 6, 2026, 02:10 PM
- Last updated
- Jan 10, 2026, 06:11 AM
- Compensation
- $77,200 - $115,800 per year
About Northrop Grumman
Part of the growing space industry ecosystem pushing humanity toward interplanetary exploration.
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