Principal / Sr. Principal Computer Hardware Engineer

Northrop Grumman•Redondo Beach, CA

2d•$114,000 - $213,400•Onsite

About The Position

Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems has an opening for a Principal / Sr. Principal Computer Hardware Engineer to join the F-35 Mission Systems team. This position is located onsite in Redondo Beach, CA. The selected candidate will be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining computer system hardware racks and workstations that are used by the F-35 software developers to accomplish their software development and delivery tasks.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) discipline and 5 years of related engineering experience; OR a Master’s degree in a STEM discipline and 3 years of related engineering experience; OR a PhD in a STEM discipline and 1 years of related engineering experience (for Principal level).
Bachelor’s Degree in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) discipline and 8 years of related engineering experience; OR a Master’s degree in a STEM discipline and 6 years of related engineering experience; OR a PhD in a STEM discipline and 4 years of related engineering experience (for Sr. Principal level).
Prior professional experience constructing and maintaining computer hardware racks and workstations for unclassified and classified environments.
Prior professional experience with software loading and administration of racked systems.
Demonstrated ability to investigate and solve configuration issues related to the use of various software tools.
Prior professional experience with the installation and configuration of network switches and firewalls.
Working familiarity with Linux system administration.
Must have the ability to obtain and maintain a US Government clearance and Special Access Program (SAP) within a reasonable amount of time as determined by business needs.
U.S. Citizenship is required for all positions with a government clearance and certain other restricted positions.

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with configuration and administration of SUSE Linux, LDAP, and Samba.
Familiarity with Lynx OS real-time software.
Familiarity with LDRA and Coverity security scanning tools.
Experience setting up FlexLM license manager servers.
Experience selecting needed hardware and software from vendors and working with a purchasing department to acquire the identified products.

Responsibilities

Build rack mounted and workstation HPE systems using available frames and motherboards, CPUs, memory, and disks.
Design, construct, and maintain computer racks consisting of HPE systems, switches and firewalls, tape libraries, and other needed peripherals in a professional manner for both classified and unclassified environments.
Design and implement safe networking strategies between the enterprise network and our F35 project network, and among the various developer workstations.
Load and configure all rack-mounted systems and peripherals and developer workstations per project requirements.
Produce professional drawings of the F35 developer network.
Investigate, install, and maintain other software products as required.