Principal/ Sr. Principal Electronics Engineer - Mission Systems

Northrop Grumman offers a mission-focused engineering environment with comprehensive benefits, company-paid time off, and incentives that recognize individual impact and shared company results. This full-time role is based on-site in El Segundo, CA (with mission work also supporting San Diego, CA (Rancho Bernardo)) and includes travel up to 25%. A Secret clearance is required to start, with potential to obtain and maintain SAP clearance based on business needs.

Responsibilities

• Design mission systems technical baselines across subsystems, components, and software to meet platform requirements.
• Lead trade studies and technical analysis, including modeling and simulation, while managing risk and opportunities in support of strategic objectives.
• Decompose system-level requirements, track and report metrics, and maintain productive relationships with customers, suppliers, peers, and leadership.
• Support mission system element design, capability assessment, interface decomposition, verification/validation planning, and mission integration throughout development.
• Perform subsystem trades and analysis of alternatives, including mission-effect, data, or capability modeling and simulation for air vehicles, payloads, ground segments, mission planning, CONOPS, DRM, system security, and interfaces.
• Engage customers and end users to translate requirements into deployable products.
• Support technical business development activities such as proposals and white papers.

Requirements

Principal Electronics Engineer: Bachelor’s degree in a STEM discipline from an accredited university AND 5 years of related professional or military engineering experience; or Master’s degree AND 3 years; or Ph.D. AND 1 year.

Sr. Principal Electronics Engineer: Bachelor’s degree in a STEM discipline from an accredited university AND 8 years of related professional or military engineering experience; or Master’s degree AND 6 years; or Ph.D. AND 4 years.

• Experience supporting Supplier SSOW, SRD, and scope discussions.
• Significant experience in at least two of the following: Technical leadership on DoD development projects; system architecture concepts or solutions; performance modeling and simulation.
• Significant experience in at least two of the following: Designing systems with COTS/GOTS components for DoD interoperability for RF or EO/IR sensing, EW, or communications; Non-kinetic effects (cyber operations); DoD cyber requirements, RMF, and solutions.
• Significant experience in at least two of the following: Identifying or managing system capabilities; producing architecture artifacts; preparing or reviewing architecture designs and presenting at DoD customer reviews.
• Active US Government Secret clearance with background investigation within the past 6 years or enrolled in Continuous Evaluation.
• Ability to obtain and maintain Special Access Program (SAP) clearance within a reasonable time as determined by business needs.

Preferred Qualifications

• Engineering experience on a DoD program.
• Active DoD Top Secret clearance.
• Prior SAP or SCI clearance.
• Significant architecture, design, integration, and test experience.
• Systems engineering experience (requirements derivation/flow-down, verification/validation).
• Experience leading design of mission systems or subsystems.

Benefits

• Health insurance coverage.
• Life and disability insurance.
• Savings plan.
• Company-paid holidays.
• Paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business.
• Depending on the position: eligibility for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay.
• Annual bonuses designed to reward individual contributions and allow employees to share in company results.
• Vice President or Director roles may be eligible for Long Term Incentives.

Location, Work Arrangement, and Travel

• Work arrangement: Full-time, on-site at the facility. No remote, hybrid, or telework options are available.
• Location: El Segundo, CA (onsite), with support for San Diego, CA (Rancho Bernardo).
• Travel: Up to 25%.

Relocation Assistance

Relocation assistance may be available.

Compensation

• Primary level salary range: $114,000.00 - $171,000.00
• Secondary level salary range: $142,200.00 - $213,400.00

Estimated application period: 20 days from the job posting date.