Sr Staff Engineer RF Microwave Design

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE TYPE: SecretTRAVEL: Yes, 10% of the Time

Description

At Northrop Grumman, our employees have incredible opportunities to work on revolutionary systems that impact people's lives around the world today, and for generations to come. Our pioneering and inventive spirit has enabled us to be at the forefront of many technological advancements in our nation's history - from the first flight across the Atlantic Ocean, to stealth bombers, to landing on the moon. We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage and a pioneering spirit to join forces to invent the future, and have fun along the way. Our culture thrives on intellectual curiosity, cognitive diversity and bringing your whole self to work — and we have an insatiable drive to do what others think is impossible. Our employees are not only part of history, they're making history.

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 Sr. Staff RF Engineer role is focused on RF/Microwave Design and Analysis – Hardware subsystem (Antenna) Tech Lead

Responsibilities may include development of antenna architectures, receiver / exciter architectures, requirements generation/flow down; subsystem analysis including hardware from RF to digits, performance modeling, support for performance testing, requirements verification, and more.  Work is performed without appreciable direction and exercising considerable latitude in determining technical objectives of assignments, including:

• Interface between classified and unclassified teams to keep the development efforts aligned.
• Lead the overall design and development effort.
• Interface with the chief engineers on other programs to ensure that mutual benefit without duplication of effort.
• Attend design reviews and weekly meetings, contributing experience and insight to ensure success on experiments.
• Visit and coordinate with team members who work at other sites.
• Deliver efficient and effective communication of design and architecture to hardware and software design engineers.
• Mentor and engineers and other staff members.

This role is contingent upon maintaining a Secret Clearance and obtaining SAP clearance.

Basic Qualification Sr. Staff RF Microwave Design Engineer:

• Must hold a Secret or Top-Secret security clearance
• Must have a Bachelors Degree in Engineering or related discipline with 14 years of experience in the areas described in the job description or Masters Degree with 12 years of experience or PhD with 10 years of experience. An additional 4 years of experience on lieu of degree.
• Experience in Antenna/RF Performance Analysis
• Hardware antenna Tech lead should have a demonstrated ability in technical and team leadership overseeing engineers with experience at least at the Staff level.
• Strong knowledge using MATLAB
• Strong knowledge of processing large amounts 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

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
• Subsystem requirements (hardware and software) derivation, flow-down, and configuration
• Documentation experience, generating test procedures, test reports, RF requirements, data analysis, data presentation
• Data Processing
• Performance Modeling
• Support performance testing, requirements verification and more.
• Subsystem integration, test, and system integration
• Conducting Test Readiness Reviews (TRR)

Preferred Qualifications:

• TS/SCI clearance
• SAP clearance
• Experience troubleshooting RF subsystems
• Strong understanding of Antenna/RF Performance Analysis
• Requirements generation/flow down

Salary Range: $179,600.00 - $269,400.00The above salary range represents a general guideline; however, Northrop Grumman considers a number of factors when determining base salary offers such as the scope and responsibilities of the position and the candidate's experience, education, skills and current market conditions.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.The application period for the job is estimated to be 20 days from the job posting date. However, this timeline may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates.Northrop Grumman is an Equal Opportunity 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 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.