Sr. Principal Electrical Engineer - Level 4 - Avionics Design Group

Northrop Grumman • Chandler, AZ

8d • $122,800 - $184,200 • 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. Northrop Grumman Space Systems is currently seeking an Sr. Principal Electrical Engineer - Level 4 - 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 8 years’ digital / mixed signal design experience or Masters with 6 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 Schematic capture and board layout
• Familiarity with microprocessor and/or FPGA circuit design.
• 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 DoD Active Secret Clearance

Nice To Haves

• Familiarity with Cadence, Matlab, VHDL, Python.
• Familiarity with circuit design for military/space environments.
• Active DoD Secret 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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior