Principal / Senior Principal Reliability Engineer
Northrop Grumman · Woodland Hills
- Pay
- $114,000–$171,000/year
- Job type
- Full-time
- Work mode
- On-site
- Category
- Tech & Engineering
- Neighborhood
- Woodland Hills
- Posted
- September 24, 2026 (9 days ago)
- Last verified
- October 2, 2026
About the role
Principal / Senior Principal Reliability Engineer at Northrop Grumman. Leads reliability engineering activities for complex aerospace and defense systems, ensuring mission-critical performance and safety.
What you'll do
- Develop and execute reliability programs including FMEA, fault tree analysis, and reliability predictions
- Define reliability requirements and allocate them to subsystem and component levels
- Collaborate with design, systems, and test teams to drive reliability into the product
- Analyze field data and test results to identify and resolve reliability issues
- Prepare and review reliability documentation and reports
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering; advanced degree preferred
- 10+ years of reliability engineering experience (Principal); 14+ years (Senior Principal)
- Experience with MIL-HDBK-217, MIL-STD-1629, or equivalent
- Ability to obtain DoD security clearance
Pay & benefits
$114,000–$171,000/yr. Full Northrop Grumman benefits package.
This listing comes from Northrop Grumman's own careers feed and was last verified against it on October 2, 2026. Stale listings are removed automatically.
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Principal / Senior Principal Reliability Engineer
$114,000–$171,000/year