Principal / Sr Principal Engineer Mechanical
Quick Summary
The selected candidate will join a team of Mechanical, Electrical and Hardware Integration engineers to design hardware systems and components, and support the Sentinel Program's Command Systems team.
Northrop Grumman Defense Systems is seeking a Principal Mechanical Engineer / Sr. Principal Mechanical Engineer to be located in Roy, UT. This position is contingent upon contract award.
Responsibilities
~1 min readThe selected candidate will join a team of Mechanical, Electrical and Hardware Integration engineers to design hardware systems and components, and support the Sentinel Program's Command Systems team.
- →Apply ASME standard processes and procedures to identify, design, and procure electrical and mechanical hardware.
- →Support design of integrated assemblies in accordance with decomposed requirements, compliance documents, and architecture diagrams in order to support the Sentinel critical design review campaign.
- →Assist in trade studies, Analysis of Alternatives, and create design artifacts to include 3-dimensional models and product definition packages which will be documented and released using Siemens- based Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and modeling (NX) tools.
- →Operate in and capture inputs from a multi-disciplinary engineering environment consisting of Systems, Software, Design, Compliance, and Hardware engineers.
Requirements
~3 min readPrincipal Mechanical Engineer: 5 Years with Bachelors in Science; 3 Years with Masters; 1 Years with PhD
Sr. Principal Mechanical Engineer: 8 Years with Bachelors in Science; 6 Years with Masters; 4 Years with PhD
Both levels require the following:
- Must have an active U.S. Government DoD Secret security clearance at time of application, current and within scope.
- 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.
- Experience performing CAD modeling with design tools such as Siemens NX or similar
- Working knowledge of Microsoft (MS) Word, Excel, Power Point, and Engineering Scheduling tools and applications.
- Experience resolving issues and providing technical support
- Capable of working with minimal direction and in team environments.
- Experience deriving hardware-level requirements from interface, compliance, and performance requirements
- Experience designing and generating control drawings and assemblies of systems using commercially-sourced hardware components
- Experience developing hardware design materials in support of program design reviews for review with team technical leads and program stakeholders
- Experience conducting design reviews as the design author and briefing solution designs to program leadership and stakeholders for release into product baseline
- Understanding of structural analysis concerns as applied to designing mechanical systems
- TeamCenter CPLM experience
Location & Eligibility
Listing Details
- Posted
- October 6, 2026
- First seen
- October 6, 2026
- Last seen
- October 6, 2026
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- October 6, 2026
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