Principal Engineer Electronics - Payloads (San Diego CA)

Northrop Grumman•San Diego, CA

1d•$114,000 - $171,000•Onsite

About The Position

Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems is looking to add a Principal Engineer Electronics - Payloads to join their team in San Diego, CA. This role will be primarily based within office spaces to support program and business needs. The selected candidate will be required to work full-time, on-site at the facility, with no remote or hybrid options available. Travel up to 10% may be required. The selected candidate will provide key engineering support for a payloads subsystem and will report directly to the subsystem engineering technical lead and program manager.

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.
Practical experience working with payload systems.
Technical development and systems integration experience.
Experience with managing suppliers.
Active U.S. Government Top Secret SCI Security Security Clearance (with a background investigation within the past 5 years or enrolled into Continuous Evaluation).
Must have the ability to obtain and maintain Special Access Program (SAP) clearance, within a reasonable amount of time as determined by business needs.

Nice To Haves

Current Special Access Program access
Supplier Management Experience
Practical experience working with other payload systems in addition to EW systems.
Experience leading cross-discipline teams
Experience serving as a proposal estimator
Experience in technical writing such as tech volumes & white paper

Responsibilities

Meeting support responsibilities include readiness reviews, site specific training, test briefs and debriefs, security and coordination with test directors.
Post-test support responsibilities include review, analysis and defect investigation of test logs, and validation of test data files, hardware and software troubleshooting on the platform and defect duplication and analysis in a lab.
Pre-test support responsibilities include support and checkout of the system, including but not limited to test planning activities to ensure that test objectives are achieved, and results remain within operational specifications of the subsystem.
Coordination of anomalies with engineering and supplier Subject Matter Experts.
Review of service bulletins, training for new software upgrades, review of new NG and supplier generated Discrepancy Reports and tracking existing Discrepancy Reports as new analyses become available.