Principal/ Sr. Principal Electronics Responsible Engineer
Quick Summary
Technical and schedule lead for assigned system upgrade or new delivery: Solicit
part procurement, drawings, configuration guides, installation guides, test procedures,
Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems is looking to add a Principal/ Sr. Principal Electronics Responsible Engineer to join our team in San Diego (Rancho Bernardo), CA.
The candidate should be a self-starter with familiarity working in an Integrated Product Team construct.
This candidate will be responsible for overseeing the lifecycle of design, buildup, and delivery of large data centers using commercially available IT equipment. These deliveries will consist of new data center deployments and upgrades to existing data centers.
Responsibilities
~1 min readTechnical and schedule lead for assigned system upgrade or new delivery:
- →Solicit requirements/expectations for building and establish execution plan
- →Prepare and present kickoff meetings to establish initial schedule, identify critical needs/deliverables, and coordinate with supporting organizations
- →Work with Production Lead to develop cost/schedule baseline for the effort
- →Generate implementation instructions & present implementation plan to change board(s)
- →Drive engineering deliverables: part procurement, drawings, configuration guides, installation guides, test procedures, and maintenance procedures
Execution Lead for field integration team:
- →Coordinate personnel, travel, and visit requests for integration team
- →Coordinate delivery & security approval of all required materials (hardware, cables, media, etc)
- →Perform morning standup meeting with integration team
- →Regularly updated detailed execution plan and report end of day status to leadership
- →Solve technical challenges and/or resolve issues by leveraging support from both engineering and field integration teams
- →Perform system checkout and acceptance testing leveraging support from field installation team
- →Verify all aspects of system integration have been completed, compile list of liens/deviations, and ensure system handoff is coordinated with sustainment team
Reporting:
- →Work with Cost Account Manager (CAM) or Work Package Manager (WPM) to provide weekly status, claim earned value, and provide updates to the Integrated Master Schedule (IMS)
- →Work with Lead Responsible Engineer to report daily status, identifying current tasking, needs, and projected risks
Requirements
~3 min read- Principal Electronics Engineer: Bachelor’s Degree in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) discipline and 5 years of related engineering experience; OR a Master’s degree in a STEM discipline and 3 years of related engineering experience; OR a PhD in a STEM discipline and 1 year of related engineering experience.
- Sr. Principal Electronics Engineer: Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) discipline and 8 years of related engineering experience; OR a Master’s degree in a relevant STEM discipline and 6 years of related engineering experience; OR a PhD in a relevant STEM discipline and 4 years of related engineering experience.
- Understanding of data centers and their basic constituent parts
- Experience managing projects that involve groups of 8 or more engineers and technicians
- Ability to research and develop solutions to address technical issues on subsystems that are comprised of 5 – 10 LRUs
- Ability to operate modern computer systems on both Windows OS and UNIX-like command shells
- Must have an active US Government Top-Secret Clearance (with a background investigation within the past 6 years or enrolled into Continuous Evaluation).
- Ability to obtain and maintain US Government SCI clearance
- Must have the ability to obtain and maintain Special Access Program (SAP) clearance, within a reasonable amount of time as determined by business needs.
- Current applicable Special Access Program (SAP) clearance.
- Current Special Program Access
- Experience with Engineering Drawings Experience with IT/documentation tools such as Sphinx, Jinja, YAML, reST
- Experience with Agile processes
- Cost Account Management experience
- Experience using MS Project
- Experience with datacenter design and/or hardware/software field installations
Location & Eligibility
About this job
- Pay per year
- $114,000–$171,000 a year
- 111% above the $67,600 median for Other jobs on Jobera (124,082 salaries).
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- October 25, 2026
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