Staff Communications Engineer - Antenna Co-site
About The Position
Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems has an opening for a Staff Communications Engineer - Antenna Co-site - to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals at our Melbourne, FL. The selected engineer will perform as a member of an interdisciplinary team on a key effort to develop novel and innovative solutions to advanced technical problems. The successful engineer will contribute to the overall development of communications subsystems, including developing functional architectures, analyzing performance, developing and managing requirements and interfaces, and verifying/validating all allocated requirements. You will design, develop, build, and test communications subsystems in conjunction with key suppliers. The engineer in this role will be responsible for one or more of the following: Support development and integration of communications subsystems and components to meet platform mission objectives, Requirements development, analysis, maturation and implementation translating customer requirements into hardware and software specifications, Perform performance and functional analyses, Conducting detailed trade studies, Performing risk analysis and developing mitigation plans and tracking to closure, Collaborate with engineers and program stakeholders, Developing and maintaining supplier documentation, performance based specifications, and statements of work, Technical management of program strategic partners and suppliers, including development, acquisition, acceptance, qualification, system integration and test support, Review documents from the supplier’s development effort and support supplier technical interchange meetings and design reviews, Identifying/planning/executing informal and formal testing of subsystem requirements in lab, troubleshooting hardware in the lab, Performing aircraft ground and flight test on subsystems to validate and verify subsystem requirement and sell-off, Support technical discussions with the customer and having daily interaction with management, external personnel, customers, and various sub teams. A successful Communications Engineer has good leadership skills and understands the scope of the work and the impact of the work on other teams, consistently brings up concerns, issues and risks to program and technical leadership and holds the team to a high level of technical rigor.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) discipline from an accredited university AND 12 years of related professional/military experience in Engineering; OR a Master’s degree in a (STEM) discipline from an accredited university AND 10 years of related professional/military experience in Engineering; or a Ph.D. (STEM) AND 8 years of related professional/military experience in Engineering.
- Knowledge of electromagnetics in the RF spectrum (VHF through Ka bands)
- Experience designing, developing, integrating, and/or testing RF equipment for airborne platforms.
- Ability to design, select and characterize RF components to meet mission objectives
- Experience in Computational Electromagnetic (CEM) antenna analysis for source/victim (co-site) analysis
- Experience in one or more of the following: Designing, integrating, testing, installing, operating LOS and BLOS communication systems in airborne military applications
- Experience with voice, military and network waveforms
- Experience with cryptographic implementations
- Experience with RF antenna and component design and performance analysis
- Must have a Active US Government Secret Clearance (with a background investigation within the past 6 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
- Demonstrated problem-solving ability and data analysis experience
- Knowledge of system engineering design methods, including requirements analysis and flow-down, specification derivation and interface control documentation
- Demonstrated strong verbal and written communication skills and the ability to work well in a close team environment
- Experience engaging directly with internal and external technical and programmatic representatives
- Demonstrated problem solving and troubleshooting skills
- Demonstrated ability to assimilate new concepts quickly and independently and work in a self-directed manner
- Experience in model-based systems engineering using Cameo or similar SysML tools
- Experience in performance analysis using MATLAB and Excel or similar tools
- Familiarity with Atlassian collaboration tool set (Jira and Confluence)
- Experience in supplier/subcontract management
- Experience with developing supplier documentation, performance-based specifications, and statements of work
- Experience building supplier evaluation criteria and experience in conducting technical evaluations, documenting results and selection
- Ability to review documents from the supplier’s development effort and support supplier technical interchange meetings and design review
Responsibilities
- Support development and integration of communications subsystems and components to meet platform mission objectives
- Requirements development, analysis, maturation and implementation translating customer requirements into hardware and software specifications
- Perform performance and functional analyses
- Conducting detailed trade studies
- Performing risk analysis and developing mitigation plans and tracking to closure
- Collaborate with engineers and program stakeholders
- Developing and maintaining supplier documentation, performance based specifications, and statements of work
- Technical management of program strategic partners and suppliers, including development, acquisition, acceptance, qualification, system integration and test support
- Review documents from the supplier’s development effort and support supplier technical interchange meetings and design reviews
- Identifying/planning/executing informal and formal testing of subsystem requirements in lab, troubleshooting hardware in the lab
- Performing aircraft ground and flight test on subsystems to validate and verify subsystem requirement and sell-off
- Support technical discussions with the customer and having daily interaction with management, external personnel, customers, and various sub teams
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
Senior
Education Level
Ph.D. or professional degree
