Sr. Principal Systems Engineer - Co-CLS SW Sustainment Integration Lead
AI summary of the role
This role leads software sustainment integration for the RQ-4 FMS program, managing a team of integrators, requirements tracing, regression verification tests, and SIL integration.
What you’ll do
- Lead a team of integrators performing software sustainment integration, verification, and field-driven investigations for the RQ-4 FMS program.
- Perform requirements tracing for defects, ensuring issues are clearly linked to system/segment requirements, design elements, and verification artifacts.
- Develop regression verification tests (RVTs) to validate defect fixes and prevent regression across software baselines.
- Support and coordinate integration activities within the FMS System Integration Lab (SIL), including integration of new software drops, configuration management, and test readiness.
What you’ll bring
- Bachelor's degree in STEM with 8+ years of relevant military/professional experience, or Master's with 6+ years, or PhD with 4+ years.
- Experience leading small technical teams or acting as a technical lead for integration or test efforts.
- Experience in software/system integration and test, including lab-based integration (SIL/HWIL or similar).
- Experience with defect/discrepancy management, requirements tracing, and test case development.
Technologies
RQ-4 · FMS · SIL · HWIL · GHED · requirements tracing · regression verification tests · test automation · continuous integration
About Northrop Grumman
Builds aircraft, missiles, space systems, sensors, cyber and microelectronics for U.S. and allied national-security customers, with strengths in stealth, nuclear modernization and classified space.
Public · 5000+ people
Source and classification
Implementation & delivery · Evidence for this classification:
are not only part of history, they're making history. Please note that this opportunity is contingent on program funding. Start dates are determined after funding confirmation. Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems has an opening for Senior Principal Systems Engineer - Co-CLS Software Sustainment Integration Lead to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals within our Systems Engineering organization. This role is located in Rancho Bernardo, CA. In this role as the Co‑CLS Software Sustainment Integration Lead, you will provide technical leadership for software sustainment integration activities on the RQ‑4 FMS program. You'll lead a team of integrators executing requirements tracing, RVT development and execution, and FMS SIL integration, while driving closure of software defects and managing the GHED backlog in coordination with CLS, software, and customer stakeholders.
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