below marketmost similar roles pay hereabove market
This role pays more than
51%
of similar roles. Most pay
$147,540–$213,897
— the blue band above.
At the midpoint, this role pays about
$169k
versus about
$181k
for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
Employer
About Northrop Grumman
Northrop Grumman is a leading global aerospace and defense technology company providing systems in autonomous systems, cyber, C4ISR, space, strike, and logistics. Industry: Aerospace & Defense
Northrop Grumman currently has
629 open roles
on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs
$117,500–$176,300
across 314 roles with salary data.
The Sr. Principal Data Scientist – Level 4 joins the Space Sector team to apply reliability, statistics, and data science expertise to solid rocket motor hardware design, production, test, and sustainment. This role involves collaborating with engineering, quality, and operations to develop failure modes, estimate manufacturing variability, and model system reliability. Key responsibilities include analyzing performance test data, maintaining material property databases, and developing predictive cost models and technology roadmaps. The successful candidate will utilize probabilistic statistics, Bayesian uncertainty quantification, and statistical process controls to support manufacturing defect reduction. Required technical skills include proficiency with Rstudio, Statistica, or similar statistics software. The position addresses critical technical problems regarding aging trends, service life estimates, and hardware sustainment within a complex production environment for solid rocket motor systems.
What does a Data Scientist earn?
Median $173200 from 338 postings across 66 companies.
Machine Learning
Deep Learning
Recommender Systems
Python
TensorFlow
PyTorch
Keras
SQL
AWS
Snowflake
Spark
Google Cloud
NLP
Reinforcement Learning
Causal Inference
Information Retrieval
Collaborative Filtering