Sentinel - Safety and Security Capability Lead Systems Engineer 5 - 18972
Northrop Grumman · Huntsville, AL
$152,900–$229,300from the description
Jul 21, 2026
Huntsville, AL
Jul 22, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior systems engineering role focused on Nuclear Surety, Physical Security, and System Safety for the Sentinel ICBM ground segment. The position leads a small team developing systems engineering artifacts, managing and allocating technical requirements, and building system architecture using model-based tools such as Cameo. It suits a highly experienced systems engineer with a background in requirements management, MBSE, and command-and-control or nuclear systems.
Staff level · 12+ years · Ogden-Clearfield, UT · Bachelor's required · Secret clearance · Full-time
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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 $105,715 (middle half $86,307–$126,768). 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 (9)
This role is titled 'Staff Systems Engineer – Level 5' and is explicitly framed as a Staff-level position; the seniority assessment reflects that framing and the genuine org-wide/cross-team scope described, not merely the 12-year experience floor.
The role is posted for four possible locations: Roy, UT; Bellevue, NE; Huntsville, AL; and Manhattan Beach, CA. Roy, UT (Ogden-Clearfield CBSA) is listed first and is the primary Sentinel program site; the other metros are not represented in the single CBSA field.
SOC classification is uncertain: this is a Model-Based Systems Engineering / Systems Architecture role for a defense weapon system — it does not map cleanly to any single BLS computer occupation. 15-1299 (Computer Occupations, All Other) is used as the best available fit; 15-1211 (Computer Systems Analysts) is the closest runner-up.
An active DoD Secret clearance is a hard gate at time of application. The ability to obtain SAP access is also required. An active Top Secret clearance is listed under Preferred Qualifications.
The 5-year domain experience requirement covers a broad set of alternatives (C2, physical security, cybersecurity, NC3, communications, facility design, military aerospace); it is captured at the role level via the overall years minimum rather than as individual skills, since no single named technology is specified.
Cameo Enterprise Architecture is explicitly named in the job duties section as the modeling tool to be used; it is also named as an acceptable tool under the MBSE requirement, so it is captured as a separate required skill reflecting its use in the role.
Skills such as fault-tree analysis, FDIR, SysML, Interface Control Documents, and the Vee Model appear only under Preferred Qualifications and are marked accordingly.
Ignored 4 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): requirements management, Cameo Enterprise Architecture, Systems Engineering Vee Model, fault-tree analysis.
Requires a 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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