Principal / Sr. Principal RF Microwave Design Engineer
Requisition ID: R10187378
Category: Engineering
Location: Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
Clearance Type: Secret
Telecommute: No- Teleworking not available for this position
Shift: 1st Shift (United States of America)
Travel Required: Yes, 10% of the Time
Relocation Assistance: Relocation assistance may be available
Positions Available: 1
Northrop Grumman Mission Systems, AMS E&S is seeking an experienced engineer in the following areas: Receiver Exciter, RF/Microwave design and Digital Technology. The Principal / Sr. Principal RF Engineer role is focused on RF/Microwave Design and Analysis.
Responsibilities include but not limited to:
The candidate should demonstrate familiarity/technical ability in one or more of the following areas:
- Subsystem requirements (hardware and software) derivation, flow-down, and configuration
- Systems Architecture
- Receiver/Exciter Architecture
- Documentation experience, generating test procedures, test reports, RF requirements, data analysis, data presentation
- Data Processing
- Measurements and Data Reduction
- Performance Modeling
- Support performance testing, requirements verification and more.
- Integrated subsystems including DREX and Antenna Hardware
- Subsystem integration, test, and system integration
- Conducting Test Readiness Reviews (TRR)
- Perform in-depth analysis of hardware commanding down to the register level
In addition, this candidate should have demonstrated technical ability/leadership and expertise in one or more of the following areas:
- Active electronically scanned arrays (AESAs)
- Highly integrated subsystems including antenna hardware
- Reflectors, Reflect Arrays, Digital Beam Forming
- Antenna/RF Performance Analysis
- Computational Electromagnetics, Statistics
- Expertise in Antenna Measurements and Data Reduction, including RF budget analysis and performance evaluation
- Strong MATLAB programming skills, with ability to develop scripts and function for big data processing and analysis
- Experience with Atlassian Tool Suite, Git
This role is contingent upon maintaining a Secret Clearance and obtaining SAP clearance.
Basic Qualification Principal RF Microwave Design Engineer:
- Must hold a Secret or Top-Secret security clearance
- Education
- Must have a Bachelors Degree in Engineering or related discipline with 5 years of experience in the areas described in the job description or Masters Degree with 3 years of experience or PhD with 0 years of experience
- An additional 4 years of experience on lieu of degree.
- Experience using MATLAB
- Experience processing large amount of data
- Have a basic understanding of Antenna/RF Performance Analysis
Basic Qualifications Sr Principal Engineer RF Microwave Design:
- Must hold a Secret or Top-Secret security clearance
- Must have a Bachelors Degree in Engineering or related discipline with 8 years of experience in the areas described in the job description or Masters Degree with 6 years of experience or PhD with 3 years of experience
- An additional 4 years of experience on lieu of degree.
- Sr. Principal Engineers should have a demonstrated ability in technical and team leadership overseeing engineers with experience at least at the Principal level.
- Strong knowledge using MATLAB
- Strong knowledge of processing large amount of data
- Strong understanding of AESA / phased array, Radar, SIGINT, or SATCOM sensors
- Be able to delegate, task and oversee the work of junior RF engineers
Preferred Qualifications:
- TS/SCI clearance
- SAP clearance
- Experience troubleshooting RF subsystems
- Strong understanding of Antenna/RF Performance Analysis
- Requirements generation/flow down
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.
Northrop Grumman is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action 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/AA 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.
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- Be part of a culture that thrives on intellectual curiosity, cognitive diversity and bringing your whole self to work.
- Use your skills to build and deliver innovative tech solutions that protect the world and shape a better future.
- Enjoy benefits like work-life balance, education assistance and paid time off.
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