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Sentinel MS&A Systems Engineering Manager 2

Northrop Grumman

Roy, UTFull-time$139–209K/yrSeen 6 days agoSeen in employer's feed 1 day ago

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Compensation
$139–209K/yr
Location
Roy, UT
Schedule
Full-time
Work Authorization
US work authorization required

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Requirements

Credentials this posting asks for.

Secret clearance

Job overview

Northrop Grumman seeks a Systems Engineering Manager 2 for its AVE Modeling, Simulation, and Analysis Horizontal Integration team in Roy, Utah. The role combines section management and technical work, including career mentorship and operational support for 8–12 individual contributors, and coordination of technical products, schedules, configuration management, and reporting. The position requires an active Secret clearance and U.S. citizenship.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Modeling Simulation and AnalysisMATLABPythonC++Technical WritingProject ManagementAccount ManagementEarned Value ManagementEngineering LeadershipCommunicationCustomer FocusMissile ModelingTrajectory SimulationMechanical EngineeringAerospace EngineeringM&S Verification and ValidationPhysical TestingInstrumentationDesign of Experiments

Qualifications

Bachelor's in STEM or Master's8 Years Related Experience or 6 Years With Master'sUS CitizenshipActive Secret Security ClearanceSAP Approval EligibilityEarned Value Management CertificationActive Top Secret Clearance

Benefits

Relocation Assistance
Medical Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
401(k) Match
Tuition Assistance
Paid Time Off

Full job description

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: Yes

CLEARANCE TYPE: Secret

TRAVEL: Yes, 10% of the Time

Description

At Northrop Grumman, our employees have incredible opportunities to work on revolutionary systems that impact people's lives around the world today, and for generations to come. Our pioneering and inventive spirit has enabled us to be at the forefront of many technological advancements in our nation's history - from the first flight across the Atlantic Ocean, to stealth bombers, to landing on the moon. We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage and a pioneering spirit to join forces to invent the future, and have fun along the way. Our culture thrives on intellectual curiosity, cognitive diversity and bringing your whole self to work — and we have an insatiable drive to do what others think is impossible. Our employees are not only part of history, they're making history.

Northrop Grumman Defense Systems is seeking a Systems Engineering Manager 2 – Modeling, Simulation, and Analysis. This position is located in Roy, UT and supports the AVE Modeling, Simulation, and Analysis (AVE MS&A) Horizontal Integration team responsible for overseeing AVE and cross-element coordination of technical products, task tracking and reporting, configuration management, etc. This role may offer a competitive relocation assistance package.

What You’ll Get To Do:

As a Section Manager you will be expected to spend roughly 20% of your effort on Functional Homeroom (FHR) responsibilities, with the other 80% of your efforts focused on your technical assignment within the AVE MS&A team. The selected candidate will be responsible for a Systems Engineering discipline Section within the SDS Systems Engineering organization and will report directly to an SDS Systems Engineering Department Manager. As part of the 20% FHR duties you will provide career mentorship and operational support to a Functional Home Room (FHR) team (Section) of between 8 and 12 Individual Contributors (ICs) based on Engineering goals, objectives, and company policy. Key FHR responsibilities will be personnel performance management, process familiarization and training for Section members, as well as staffing of roles on projects.

As an integral part of our AVE MS&A Horizontal Integration team, the 80% technical work will focus on driving operational and technical efforts and initiatives across the AVE MS&A team to ensure work products are of acceptable quality and meet expected timelines.

Responsibilities include:

  • Provide project and technical oversight for activities performed by the group.

  • Provide ownership of and direction to the processes used by the group.

  • Interact with senior internal and external personnel on significant technical matters requiring coordination between organizations to ensure successful task completion and customer satisfaction.

  • Horizontal integration of work efforts across the organization; maintaining cognizance over technical activities; and ensuring execution of project statement of work and baselines.

  • Maintaining configuration management of environment and performance models relevant to missile flight

  • Tracking and reporting progress towards major milestone events

  • Develop, maintain, and logically sequence schedule within the Integrated Master Schedule (IMS)

  • Actively reach out to functional leads, engineers, and sub-contractors to gather inputs, align schedules, and resolve issues

  • Estimate personnel resources required to execute program scope

  • Track and report cost and schedule status

Position Benefits:

As a full-time employee of Northrop Grumman, you are eligible for our robust benefits package including:

  • Medical, Dental & Vision coverage

  • 401k

  • Educational Assistance

  • Life Insurance

  • Employee Assistance Programs & Work/Life Solutions

  • Paid Time Off

  • Health & Wellness Resources

  • Employee Discounts

This positions standard work schedule is a 9/80. The 9/80 schedule allows employees who work a nine-hour day Monday through Thursday to take every other Friday off.

You’ll Bring These Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s Degree in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) with 8 years of related experience; 6 years of related experience with a master’s degree.

  • Must be a US Citizen with an active U.S. Government Secret security clearance at time of application with an investigation completed within the last 6 years

  • Must have the ability to obtain and maintain Special Access Program (SAP) approval within a reasonable period of time, as determined by the company to meet its business need

  • Modeling, Simulation, and Analysis experience

  • Experience with MATLAB, Python, C++, or similar programming languages

  • Technical writing skills

These Qualifications Would be Nice to Have:

  • Previous experience in project management and/or control account management

  • Active Earned Value Management qualification/certification

  • Active U.S. Government DoD Top Secret security clearance at time of application with an investigation completed within the last 6 years.

  • Experience leading junior engineers to achieve technical objectives.

  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills with a customer focused mindset.

  • Experience with missile modeling and trajectory simulation

  • Broad technical experiences in mechanical/aerospace engineering of missiles/launch vehicles

  • Experience with Modeling & Simulation (M&S) verification and validation (MIL-STD 3022)

  • Experience with physical testing, instrumentation, Design of Experiments

Primary Level Salary Range: $139,100.00 - $208,700.00

The above salary range represents a general guideline; however, Northrop Grumman considers a number of factors when determining base salary offers such as the scope and responsibilities of the position and the candidate's experience, education, skills and current market conditions.

Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay. Annual bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions as well as allow employees to share in company results. Employees in Vice President or Director positions may be eligible for Long Term Incentives. In addition, Northrop Grumman provides a variety of benefits including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, savings plan, Company paid holidays and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business.

The application period for the job is estimated to be 20 days from the job posting date. However, this timeline may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates.

Northrop Grumman is an Equal Opportunity Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class. For our complete EEO and pay transparency statement, please visit http://www.northropgrumman.com/EEO. U.S. Citizenship is required for all positions with a government clearance and certain other restricted positions.

Job Category: Engineering

How this job compares

Set against the 2,872 open Systems Engineering jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 30, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$139–209K/yr
  • Utah median$116–184K/yr72 salary ranges
  • US median$135–208K/yr2,088 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $174K, is 13% above the Utah median midpoint ($154K) — in the middle half of Systems Engineering salary ranges in Utah.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 100 open Systems Engineering jobs in Utah and 2,872 across the US. 5% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Utah
Experience
This posting asks for at least 6 years of experience; Systems Engineering postings that state a minimum ask for 7 years at the median (2,231 postings).
Education
967 of the 2,872 open Systems Engineering jobs (34%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 30, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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