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Sr Principal Engineer Systems - Ground-Based Radar (AHT)
Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation · 🇺🇸 United States-Colorado-Colorado Springs
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About the role
RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: No relocation assistance available CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: Yes CLEARANCE TYPE: Secret TRAVEL: 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 Sr. Principal Systems Engineer - Ground-Based Radar to serve as the technical leader and primary coordinator for integrated software and hardware systems engineering on a large, multi-site, multi-contract ground-based radar system. This role provides senior technical leadership within radar, site activation, and compute Integrated Product Teams (IPTs), ensuring a coherent technical baseline and disciplined application of Systems Engineering (SE) and Configuration Management (CM) best practices across all participating sites and contract segments for one overall system. Responsibilities • Act as the technical leader and central coordinator across a multi-site, multi-disciplinary team, ensuring alignment of system architecture, requirements, design decisions, and CM baselines. • Lead software- and hardware-focused systems engineering with emphasis on requirements decomposition, allocation, traceability, and readiness for SRR, PDR, and CDR across multiple sites and contracts. • Champion SE best practices, including rigorous requirements management, interface definition, verification and validation planning, risk management, and technical performance management. • Champion CM best practices to establish, maintain, and control technical baselines; ensure proper configuration identification, change control, status accounting, and audit readiness across all SW/HW elements and sites. • Provide systems engineering guidance within radar, site activation, and compute IPTs; ensure consistent application of SE and CM processes and maintenance of a unified technical baseline across all locations. • Capture and synthesize subject matter expert inputs (software, hardware, RF, integration & test) to support CDRL development and provide Integration & Test consultation for a distributed system. • Translate customer requirements and CONOPS into integrated system requirements for a large, multi-site radar architecture; allocate requirements to software, hardware, and interfaces and manage changes through disciplined SE and CM processes. • Perform functional analysis and systems trade studies across concept, design, fabrication, test, installation, operations, and sustainment, considering multi-site deployment, interoperability, and logistics. • Develop clear system and subsystem requirements, interface control documentation (ICDs), and test and verification artifacts covering SW, HW, and cross-site integration. • Support system and subsystem integration, test, and requirements verification activities, including HW-in-the-loop, SW integration, and end-to-end system-level testing across multiple locations. • Define, track, and report technical performance measures for SW, HW, and overall system performance, driving cross-site issue resolution and risk mitigation.