Staff Systems Engineer

Northrop Grumman • Rolling Meadows, IL

1d • $169,000 - $253,600 • Onsite

About The Position

Northrop Grumman Defense Systems is seeking a Staff Systems Engineer to join the Specialized Tactical Electronic Warfare Systems (STEWS) team in Rolling Meadows, Illinois. The role contributes to the design, development, and modernization of systems including airborne radar, radio-frequency and infrared countermeasure systems, laboratory test stations, and transportable flight-line electronic combat system test sets. The engineer will identify and drive future technology updates and introduce technologies to address current and anticipated obsolescence in fielded systems.

The successful candidate applies systems engineering principles to deliver innovative, affordable, reliable solutions that meet customer needs, performance parameters, and program goals. The position leads multidisciplinary engineering teams through system design, integration, and test; develops and maintains system and subsystem specifications and documentation; and researches, designs, develops, and simulates electronic warfare systems and real-time processing algorithms. The engineer also performs analysis and trade studies, allocates requirements, defines interfaces, and presents briefings and demonstrations to management and external customers. Occasional travel is required; the posting states travel is 25% of the time.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, systems engineering, or a related technical field and 12 or more years of related experience; or a master's degree in one of these fields and 10 or more years; or a Ph.D. in one of these fields and 8 or more years.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Ability to create and support a cooperative team environment.
• Experience working on Department of Defense contracts.
• Experience designing hardware, firmware, and software, with the ability to allocate functions across product elements.
• Experience leading hardware, software, and systems design teams, including identifying when intervention is needed, removing obstacles, and taking action to return teams to a successful path.
• At least five years of experience maintaining and sustaining electronic warfare systems.
• Experience in the design, development, test, or sustainment of airborne tactical electronic systems.
• Ability to obtain or hold an active Department of Defense Secret or higher security clearance.
• U.S. citizenship is required for positions requiring a government clearance and certain other restricted positions.

Nice To Haves

• Ph.D. in electrical engineering, systems engineering, or a related technical field and 8 or more years of related experience.
• Familiarity with the theory, operation, and practice of airborne and ground-based tactical radars.
• Digital circuit design experience, including simulation and schematic capture through test and integration.
• Prototyping and hands-on debugging experience with digital subsystems, such as circuit-card development involving FPGAs, embedded processors, graphics processors, or high-speed data interfaces such as PCIe.
• System modeling and simulation experience, including developing MATLAB-based models of system functionality, including FPGA functionality.

Responsibilities

• Apply systems engineering principles to deliver innovative, affordable, highly reliable solutions that meet customer needs, key performance parameters, and program execution goals.
• Lead a multidisciplinary engineering team from system design through integration and test of highly complex technical systems.
• Generate and update system- and subsystem-level specifications, maintain requirements and verification traceability, and update system drawings and documents.
• Research, design, develop, and simulate electronic warfare systems, including defining and developing processing algorithms for real-time implementation.
• Provide briefings and demonstrations to management and external customers.
• Perform functional analysis, detailed trade studies, requirements allocation, and interface definition to translate customer requirements into hardware and software specifications.
• Perform occasional travel as required.
• Identify and drive future technology updates and introduce new technologies to resolve current and anticipated obsolescence issues in fielded systems.

Benefits

• Health insurance coverage
• Life insurance
• Disability insurance
• Savings plan
• Company-paid holidays
• Paid time off for vacation and/or personal business
• Employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus, depending on the position.

What This Job Offers

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