Principal / Sr. Principal Systems Engineer - Voice Communications
About The Position
Northrop Grumman is hiring a Principal Systems Engineer or Senior Principal Systems Engineer to contribute to a multidisciplinary systems engineering team supporting development programs, including sensors for current and next-generation air and sea platforms and a Distributed Systems program. The engineer will develop and integrate voice communications capabilities for aircraft and related ground, external, and remote systems. The role requires an active U.S. Government Secret clearance and is contingent on successful transfer of that clearance. The position may involve work in laboratories, offices, integration facilities, fields, ranges, and test sites. Periodic travel, nonstandard work hours, and participation in developmental testing may be required. The engineer will work in a multidisciplinary, safety-focused, configuration-controlled development environment. The position offers Northrop Grumman benefits including health plans, a savings plan, paid time off, education assistance, training and development, and, where available, a 9/80 work schedule. Additional benefits include health insurance, life and disability insurance, company-paid holidays, and potential overtime, shift differential, and discretionary bonuses, depending on the position.
Requirements
- For Principal Systems Engineer: a bachelor's degree and 5 years of relevant experience, a master's degree and 3 years, or a PhD and 1 year in a technical field; an additional 4 years of experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
- For Senior Principal Systems Engineer: a bachelor's degree and 8 years of relevant experience, a master's degree and 6 years, or a PhD and 4 years in a technical field; an additional 4 years of experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
- U.S. citizenship.
- Current, active U.S. Government Secret clearance.
- Experience in avionics and voice communications systems.
- Experience developing and managing technical requirements and interfaces.
- Experience integrating, troubleshooting, verifying, and validating hardware/software systems.
- Ability to interpret schematics, wiring diagrams, interface definitions, network architectures, and equipment specifications.
- Experience working across multidisciplinary engineering and operations teams.
- Strong technical writing, presentation, organization, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to support test activities in laboratory, field, range, and/or flight-test environments.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with aviation voice communications, air traffic control interfaces, intercom systems, digital audio, or communications recording.
- Familiarity with requirements and lifecycle tools such as DOORS, Jama, Cameo, or equivalent.
- Familiarity with configuration management, interface control documents, formal technical reviews, and change-control processes.
- Knowledge of applicable aviation, range, communications, electromagnetic compatibility, environmental, or cybersecurity requirements.
- Experience supporting developmental test, qualification, acceptance, or operational readiness activities.
- Experience with network architectures, Ethernet/IP, time synchronization, encryption, and distributed command-and-control systems.
Responsibilities
- Define requirements for voice capture, processing, digitization, recording, distribution, and transmission to aircraft, external entities, and remote sites.
- Develop and maintain interfaces to air traffic control, range control, external communications systems, and operational networks.
- Support ground control station-to-ground control station connectivity, ground control station-to-flight control communications, and other required voice paths.
- Evaluate communications equipment and capabilities, including audio interfaces, switching, routing, timing, recording, quality monitoring, and failover.
- Develop communications integration and verification plans and procedures, including testing for latency, intelligibility, availability, interoperability, and degraded modes.
- Coordinate with spectrum management, network engineering, cybersecurity, human factors, airworthiness, and operations personnel.
- Support testing in laboratory, field, range, and/or flight-test environments.
Benefits
- Health plan and health insurance coverage
- Savings plan
- Paid time off
- Education assistance
- Training and development
- 9/80 work schedule where available
- Life and disability insurance
- Company-paid holidays
- Potential overtime, shift differential, and discretionary bonus, depending on the position
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
