Principal Electrical Engineer - 3
About The Position
Northrop Grumman Space Systems is currently seeking a Principal Electrical Engineer - Level 3 - Avionics Design Group within Launch Vehicles business unit at the Chandler, AZ facility. As a member of the circuit design team, you’ll be responsible for circuit design and development for programs. You will perform detailed board-level digital and mixed signal circuit design, circuit analysis and simulation to verify as-designed circuit response meets requirement criteria. You will select component parts for the design to meet stringent environments, including radiation effects. You will evaluate completed design with more senior engineers and other technical groups and make modifications necessary to achieve a design that satisfies requirements. Write design and test documentation including analyses, specifications, user manuals, test procedures, etc. You will support the qualification testing phase by developing test procedures and reports. You may also oversee, with senior engineer oversight, component supplier design, analysis, manufacture, and test.
Requirements
- Bachelors with 5 years’ digital / mixed signal design experience or Masters with 3 years’ experience.
- Must be capable of understanding and adhering to department design standards.
- Ability to work in an Agile project format, team-based environment, including Jira and Git environments.
- Experience with Cadence Schematic Capture and board layout using Allegro.
- Proficiency with circuit simulation including PSpice or LTSpice.
- Experienced in hardware troubleshooting / software debugging.
- Physical testing experience including lab measurement (oscilloscope, signal/function generator, logic analyzer, etc).
- Experience generating design documents, specifications, user's manuals, test plans and procedures.
- U.S. Citizenship is required.
- Ability to obtain/maintain a U.S. Government Secret Clearance
Nice To Haves
- Familiarity with Cadence Allegro PWB, CAM350, Matlab, VHDL, Python.
- Familiarity with microprocessor and/or FPGA circuit design.
- Familiarity with circuit design for military/space environments.
- Active U.S. Government Security Clearance is preferred.
Responsibilities
- Perform detailed board-level digital and mixed signal circuit design, circuit analysis and simulation to verify as-designed circuit response meets requirement criteria.
- Select component parts for the design to meet stringent environments, including radiation effects.
- Evaluate completed design with more senior engineers and other technical groups and make modifications necessary to achieve a design that satisfies requirements.
- Write design and test documentation including analyses, specifications, user manuals, test procedures, etc.
- Support the qualification testing phase by developing test procedures and reports.
- Oversee, with senior engineer oversight, component supplier design, analysis, manufacture, and test.
Benefits
- Relocation assistance may be available
- health insurance coverage
- life and disability insurance
- savings plan
- Company paid holidays and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business
- overtime
- shift differential
- discretionary bonus
- Annual bonuses
- Long Term Incentives (for VP or Director positions)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
