Staff Systems Engineer (RF Communications)

Northrop Grumman•Cincinnati, OH

41d•$161,000 - $241,400•Onsite

About The Position

Northrop Grumman is seeking a cleared Staff Systems Engineer for a critical leadership role in their Systems Engineering Group as a key contributor to the successful completion of RF Communications projects. This position is ideal for a candidate who can lead design efforts to produce new hardware products at the Xetron facility that support National Defense partners. The products produced at this facility support all domains of intelligence and defense battlespaces including land, sea, air and space. Many of the problem-sets our customers expect us to solve do not have known solutions, so ingenuity is essential. The senior principal systems engineer has overall technical responsibility for the electrical design, development, integration, and test for the development project and serves as the primary point of contact for the external customer and internal development engineering team. Ideal candidates for this position have substantial breadth and depth of knowledge in all aspects of engineering with a focus on producing deployable hardware products derived from generalized customer mission objectives and goals into traceable requirements. The candidate must have the ability to independently form innovative solutions to difficult problems and lead teams of highly skilled engineers to execute these solutions and act as the link between technical and business goals of the project. Typical teams are 5-10 people and require our engineers to have diverse skill sets that apply to the entire lifecycle of a program. This position allows the candidate to have direct contact with our end customers and end operators of our products, which allows for pragmatic and early feedback from the user community during the design process. Preferred technical background includes experience with collaborating across engineering teams to resolve and integrate technical/engineering requirements and verify their incorporation into the resulting product.

Requirements

Bachelor of Science Degree in Engineering, or other STEM degree, plus 12 years of progressive experience OR Master of Science degree plus 10 years of progressive experience, OR PhD plus 7 years of progressive experience
Recent design experience and a track record of successful RF product designs.
Experience leading engineering teams from various disciplines in a recent technical development project
Experience in assessing project status in terms of technical, cost, and schedule execution
US Citizenship is required
Active Top-Secret clearance
Substantial breadth and depth of knowledge in all aspects of engineering with a focus on producing deployable RF sensors and collection systems
Engineering team leadership and direct technical contribution with RF hardware communication and collection design projects
Experience in extracting derived requirements and generating system architectures from mission-level concept of operations (ConOps)
Previous direct contact with end customers in the creation and development of project technical reviews and documentation.

Nice To Haves

Experience as an IPT lead, functional lead, or leadership in the military
Experience with model-based system engineering concepts and platforms, such as Cameo
Experience with ISO/IEC/IEEE 15288, MIL-STD-499, and/or INCOSE system engineering life-cycle processes
Experience integrating antenna, RF subsystems, and processing hardware/software into a complete system
RF modeling, simulation, and analysis including link budgets
MATLAB knowledge and/or experience
Demonstrated ability to quickly learn and apply varied technologies
Preferred technical background includes experience with design improvements, requirements management, especially in relationship to reliability, maintainability, and supportability.

Responsibilities

Lead design efforts to produce new hardware products.
Have overall technical responsibility for the electrical design, development, integration, and test for the development project.
Serve as the primary point of contact for the external customer and internal development engineering team.
Independently form innovative solutions to difficult problems.
Lead teams of highly skilled engineers to execute these solutions.
Act as the link between technical and business goals of the project.
Collaborate across engineering teams to resolve and integrate technical/engineering requirements and verify their incorporation into the resulting product.
Perform as liaison to the customer for all engineering efforts.
Collaborate in a team environment.