Principal/Sr. Principal Digital Design Engineer

Northrop Grumman•Rolling Meadows, IL

43d•Onsite

About The Position

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. Job Description Northrop Grumman Mission Systems is a trusted provider of mission-enabling solutions for global security. Our Engineering and Sciences (E&S) organization pushes the boundaries of innovation, redefines engineering capabilities, and drives advances in various sciences. Our team is chartered with providing the skills, innovative technologies to develop, design, produce and sustain optimized product lines across the sector while providing a decisive advantage to the warfighter. Come be a part of our mission! The Navigation, Targeting, and Survivability Division (NTSD), located in the Northwest Chicago suburbs, develops operational Electronic Warfare (EW) and targeting systems that provide situational awareness, self-protection, and offensive electronic attack capability to platforms across the spectrum from visible light IR to millimeter wave RF. By joining us, you'll work on projects that help safeguard our nation related to land forces, rotary wing survivability systems, international and U.S. military electronic warfare systems, communications systems, missile warning systems and sensors, infrared counter-measure systems (IRCM), automatic test equipment, modeling and simulation, and situational awareness programs. The Hardware Engineering organization plays a key role in developing these solutions. The Principal/Sr. Principal Digital Design Engineer role involves full life-cycle product development from system concept and requirements through design, implementation, test verification, production, and field support while working in integrated product teams spanning Engineering, Manufacturing, and Program Management. Digital subsystem and circuit card designs utilize the latest FPGA technologies from all major vendors and device families including Xilinx, Altera, and Actel, and support high speed interfaces, Radio Frequency (RF) and Electro-Optical (EO) DSP, controls, data links, embedded processing and processor interfaces. This position will be full-time and on-site at our Rolling Meadows, IL. location This position may be filled at either a Principal or Sr. Principal Digital Design Engineer level based on the qualifications listed below.

Requirements

Bachelors' degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or similar engineering discipline with a minimum 5 years of digital electronics design experience or a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or similar engineering discipline and 3 years of digital electronics design experience.
Digital circuit design experience, including simulation & schematic capture through test and integration
Prior hands-on prototyping and debug experience testing complex digital subsystems, such as complex circuit card development involving FPGAs, and/or embedded processors, and/or high-speed interfaces.
Demonstrated ability to lead projects with 2 or less team members.
Demonstrated ability to translate system performance and operational specifications into hardware requirements, design, and test specifications.
Familiarity with documentation revision control and review systems similar to DOORS, ClearCase, and ClearQuest.
US Citizen
Ability to obtain and maintain a Secret security clearance.
Bachelors' degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or similar engineering discipline with a minimum 8 years of digital electronics design experience or a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or similar engineering discipline and 6 years of digital electronics design experience.
Extensive digital circuit design experience, including simulation & schematic capture through test and integration.
Extensive hands-on prototyping and debug experience testing complex digital subsystems, such as complex circuit card development involving FPGAs, and/or embedded processors, and/or high-speed interfaces
Demonstrated ability to lead projects with 2 or more team members.
Demonstrated ability to translate system performance and operational specifications into hardware requirements, design, and test specifications.
Familiarity with documentation, revision control and review systems similar to DOORS, ClearCase, and ClearQuest.
US Citizen
Ability to obtain and maintain a Secret security clearance.

Nice To Haves

Advanced degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering with a minimum 10 years of digital electronics design experience.
Working knowledge of Electronic Warfare systems.
Experience in Aerospace and/or Defense industries.
Recent circuit card design experience utilizing circuit-related tools including Cadence Concept, Allegro, and/or Mentor DxDesigner, Expedition.
Working experience with ClearCase/ClearQuest and DOORS Current Secret or Top-Secret Security Clearance.
Proven skills to include: team leadership, mentoring others, communicating with all levels of an organization internally and externally, being adaptable, creative, collaborative and also comfortable working independently and enjoying solving difficult problems.