Sr. Principal Electronics Communications Engineer

Northrop Grumman • San Diego, CA

4d • $142,200 - $213,400 • Onsite

About The Position

Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems is looking to add a Sr. Principal Electronics Communications Engineer. This position can be located in Palmdale, CA, El Segundo, CA, or Rancho Bernardo, CA supporting our Avionics Integration Organization. The selected candidate will provide key engineering support for an electro-optical subsystem and will report directly to the subsystem engineering technical lead. The candidate should be a self-starter with familiarity working in an Integrated Product Team construct.

Requirements

• 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.
• Experience with electro-optical, sensors and/or communications systems, including development, test, production, integration and/or operations
• Familiarity with systems engineering processes at the sub-system, system and system-of-systems levels.
• Must have an active US Government Top-Secret Clearance (with a background investigation within the past 6 years or enrolled into Continuous Evaluation).
• Ability to obtain and maintain US Government SCI clearance
• Must have the ability to obtain and maintain Special Access Program (SAP) clearance, 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

• Current applicable Special Access Program (SAP) clearance.
• Active USG Top Secret SCI clearance (with a background investigation within the past 5 years or enrolled into Continuous Evaluation).

Responsibilities

• Installation, integration, test and troubleshooting of HW and SW in the field
• On-site lab and field support for test events
• Develop updates to technical manuals
• Coordination with ground HW, SW and networking teams to optimize subsystem performance
• Definition of support equipment (SE) requirements and provide guidance to the SE design team
• Perform sustaining engineering to maintain and improve hardware (HW), Software (SW), system maintainability/supportability, etc.
• Support configuration management of the system’s HW and SW
• Analysis of data for subsystem performance using MATLAB
• Generation and presentation of reports on subsystem performance to management and customers
• Resolution of squawks and other link anomalies
• Develop and manage risks, issues and opportunities
• Maintain baseline system documents, such as ICDs and specifications
• Provide technical direction to suppliers as a member of the Supplier Management Team

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