Fulgurite Sr. Principal Systems Engineer - 18518* at Northrop Grumman
Roy, UT
$122,800–$184,200from the description
Jul 14, 2026
Roy, UT
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior systems engineering role focused on hypersonic re-entry vehicles and advanced payloads, sitting within a rapid prototyping and development team. Day-to-day work centers on building and maintaining system architecture models, authoring and tracing requirements, defining interface control documents, and supporting lab-based hardware-in-the-loop testing. The role also involves leading cross-functional technical reviews and mentoring junior engineers, and suits experienced systems engineers with a background in MBSE tools and full lifecycle development.
Senior level · 8+ 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 $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)
The role title is 'Sr. Principal Systems Engineer' — Northrop Grumman uses 'Sr. Principal' as a level above Senior but below a true org-wide Principal/Fellow; the actual requirements (8 years, component/program scope) align with a Senior band rather than a true Principal.
SOC classification is uncertain: Systems Engineering at this level sits between 15-1299 (Computer Occupations, All Other — the closest match for model-based systems engineering) and 15-1211 (Computer Systems Analysts). No single SOC cleanly captures defense systems engineering.
The clearance requirement is an active Top Secret at time of application, with additional screening for Enhanced Security Clearances (likely TS/SCI or SAP access); the posting does not explicitly state TS/SCI, so TopSecret is used.
Degree requirement: a Bachelor's in a STEM field is the baseline; a Master's or PhD reduces the required years of experience but is not independently required.
Python and MATLAB appear only under Preferred Qualifications and are explicitly noted as 'not a primary development role.'
NQA1, CMMI, DO-178C, and INCOSE CSEP all appear under Preferred Qualifications.
Requirements management tools (DOORS, Jama, Polarion) are listed as interchangeable alternatives within a single required qualification statement.
Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): Requirements management.
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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