Job Description

Northrop Grumman Mission Systems Field Engineering is seeking a highly motivated Electronics Engineer, Principal Electronics Engineer or Senior Principal Electronics Engineer. This career opportunity is a great fit for self-motivated, proactive individuals who want to assume ownership of the performance and delivery of Northrop Grumman's diverse suite of digital product hardware. Our engineers work in a high exposure, fast paced, and exciting environment that involves hands on technical challenges, problem solving, and inter-department collaborations. If you thrive on solving problems and want different challenges each day, please read on!

We are looking for you to join our team as an Electronics Engineer, Principal Electronics Engineer or Senior Principal Electronics Engineer as part our Advanced Tactical Program. This position will be based in Linthicum, MD, as an Electronics Engineer, Principal Electronics Engineer, or Senior Principal Electronics Engineer for our Airborne Multi-Functions Sensors Division and you will have a challenging and rewarding opportunity to be a part of our field Engineering team. We are seeking knowledgeable individuals who are passionate about designing, monitoring, and supporting product technical performance and aggressive about maintaining product delivery schedules. The engineer will support the development, integration, and testing of radar hardware. Activities will range from product-level requirements analysis, hands-on testing, and troubleshooting; to analysis of failure trends, root cause/ corrective actions; and attending program meetings to report outcomes, problems, and corrective actions and travel to customer locations to provide onsite direct support. Extended work hours or shift work may be required to support surge activities.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and implement testing methods and equipment
• Troubleshoot and support digital hardware
• Ability to lead or support, data analysis, and digital Instrumentation and comfortably multitask while working in a team environment or independently.
• Primary focus will be on the hardware/software integration of radar and other systems in the laboratory to provide a testing environment that facilitates current and future system development activities.
• Responsibilities will include both RF and digital scenario generation systems that interface with the radar in addition to other platform level systems for integration and requirement verification activities in Baltimore and at customer locations.
• The ability to travel periodically to support scheduled field integration requirements at the customer s domestic locations is required.
• Collaborate with design engineering to develop and implement hardware improvements and solutions and support technicians through troubleshoot and training

This job may be filled as an Electronics Engineer or a Principal Electronics Engineer.

Basic Qualifications for an Electronics Engineer:

• Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Computer Engineering, and a minimum of 2 years related experience in Electronics engineering or Master s degree in Electrical engineering, Electronics engineering, or other STEM field plus 0 years of experience.
• Knowledge in digital circuit design including radar modes of operation
• Experience with lab support equipment such as digital oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, spectrum analyzers, network analyzers
• Experience with other specialized test equipment and tools used to troubleshoot in the lab or field (power meter signal generator)
• Basic knowledge of radar operations
• Effective verbal and written communications with the ability to work in a team environment
• Ability and willingness to travel to customer locations that include business trips and short-term travel to customer facilities at domestic locations. Most travel to customer locations would occur after development efforts in Baltimore are complete or near completion.
• Active Secret Clearance investigated within the last 5 years, with the ability to gain program specific clearances. U.S. Citizenship is a pre-requisite

Basic Qualifications for a Principal Electronics Engineer:

• Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, and Computer Engineering and a minimum of 5 years related experience in electronics engineering or a Master s degree in Electrical engineering, Electronics engineering, or other STEM field plus 3 years of experience.
• Working knowledge in digital circuit design including radar modes of operation,
• Detail experience with lab support equipment such as digital oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, spectrum analyzers, network analyzers
• Detail experience with other specialized test equipment and tools used to troubleshoot in the lab or field (power meter signal generator)
• Effective verbal and written communication, ability to work in a team environment
• Ability and willingness to travel to customer locations that include business trips and short-term travel to customer facilities at domestic locations. Most travel to customer locations would occur after development efforts in Baltimore are complete or near completion.
• Active Secret Clearance investigated within the last 5 years, with the ability to gain program specific clearances. U.S. Citizenship is a pre-requisite

Basic Qualifications for Sr. Principal Systems Engineer:

• Bachelor s degree in Electrical engineering/Computer engineering or related STEM degree and with a minimum of 9 years of relevant technical work experience or Master s degree with a minimum of 7 years relevant technical work experience
• Detail experience in hardware\software integration of embedded systems
• Detailed experience and knowledge of RF systems including sensors and radar systems functionality and hardware
• Experience with lab support equipment such as digital oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, spectrum analyzers
• Experience with MATLAB, C, C++
• Team Leadership experience with the demonstrated ability to effectively collaborate across multiple engineering disciplines.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Detail experience with specialized test equipment and tools used to troubleshoot/repair sensor and radar in the field
• Ability and willingness to travel to customer locations that include business trips and short-term travel to customer facilities at domestic locations.
• Active Secret Clearance investigated within the last 5 years, with the ability to gain program specific clearances. U.S. Citizenship is a pre-requisite

Preferred Qualifications:

• Ability to work with minimal direction and guidance
• Experience in hardware\software integration of embedded systems
• Hands-on troubleshooting of electrical hardware
• Experience in radar modes of operation, with RF stimulator, RF target generator and digital bench type systems
• Active Secret Clearance investigated within the last 5 years, with the ability to gain program specific clearances. U.S. Citizenship is a pre-requisite