Sentinel - Fulgurite Principal Systems Engineer - 18513* at Northrop Grumman
Roy, UT
$98,400–$147,600from the description
Jul 14, 2026
Roy, UT
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A principal-level systems engineering role supporting a hypersonic re-entry vehicle program, focused on managing hardware and software items sourced from external vendors and internal work orders. Day-to-day work involves interpreting technical data, overseeing subcontractor performance, maintaining configuration control, tracing requirements, and supporting design and verification reviews. Suits engineers with full-lifecycle systems experience, MBSE tooling proficiency, and an active Top Secret clearance.
Senior level · 5+ years · Ogden-Clearfield, UT · Bachelor's required · Top Secret clearance · Full-time
Advertised as Principal, but the requirements read as Senior.
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
What the occupation pays Median $106,338 (middle half $83,384–$129,476). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (8)
This role is titled 'Principal Engineer' but the actual requirements (5 years with a Bachelor's, 3 with a Master's) and scope align more closely with a Senior-level position on a standard career ladder; 'Principal' here appears to be a Northrop Grumman internal grade rather than an org-wide technical authority role.
The SOC classification is a judgment call: the role is a Systems Engineer focused on requirements management, MBSE modeling, configuration control, and subcontractor oversight — closest to Computer Systems Analysts (15-1211), though it sits at the boundary of general systems engineering which has no perfect SOC match.
The experience requirement is stated as a tiered minimum: 5 years with a Bachelor's, 3 with a Master's, or 1 with a PhD. The 5-year figure is used as the overall years minimum (the lowest-degree path).
The 3+ years of MBSE/SysML tool experience and 3+ years of requirements management experience are stated as separate gates within the Basic Qualifications section; IBM Rhapsody, Cameo, and SysML v2 are listed as interchangeable tool options for the MBSE requirement.
Python and MATLAB appear only under Preferred Qualifications and the JD explicitly notes this is 'not a primary development role.'
CMMI, DO-178C, NQA-1, and MIL-STD-498 are listed under Preferred Qualifications as familiarity items; MIL-STD-498 is also referenced in the Basic Qualifications narrative as a standard to maintain, but in a context-setting rather than gating way — treated as preferred overall.
The posting notes the position is contingent upon contract award.
Requires a Top Secret clearance — the cleared population is a small fraction of this occupation, so the real candidate pool is materially smaller than the estimate below, which does not model clearance.
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