Principal, Digital Engineering

Company: Northrop Grumman
Location: Baltimore
Posted on: September 2, 2024

Job Description:

Category: Engineering
Shift: 1st Shift (United States of America)
Travel Required: Yes, 10% of the Time
Relocation Assistance: Relocation assistance may be available
At Northrop Grumman, our employees have incredible opportunities to work on revolutionary systems that impact people's lives around the world today, and for generations to come. Our culture thrives on intellectual curiosity, cognitive diversity and bringing your whole self to work - and we have an insatiable drive to do what others think is impossible. Northrop Grumman Space Systems sector delivers a decisive advantage to its customers through software-defined, hardware-enabled solutions. The Electrical Design and Analysis (EDA) section in Baltimore, MD enables these hardware solutions by providing RF microwave architecture, design, verification, and support expertise across a wide variety of electronic sensor products. Our engineers work on complex, leading edge, high reliability electronics supporting different space platforms.
NGSS engineers share a great sense of pride knowing their contributions have a direct effect on the safety and security of the country and its allies. Our culture thrives on intellectual curiosity, cognitive diversity, teamwork, and bringing your whole self to work to accomplish the mission while learning and having fun along the way. The department offers opportunities to grow on a technical track both broad and deep as well as explore project leadership or management positions. This role will support our Payload and Ground Systems Division and Remote Sensing Programs (RSP) Business Unit.
EDA is seeking engineers with experience and interest in RF/Microwave and Mixed Signal circuit card assembly (CCA) design and test including:
Designing, modeling, and verifying RF/microwave and mixed signal CCAs, particularly Digital Receiver/Exciters
Utilize analysis, simulations and prototyping to develop CCA designs
Managing RF budgets, frequency planning, and common assembly level interfaces
Predicting assembly level performance through selecting materials, components, and packaging approaches, RF chain analysis, electromagnetic simulation, data collection and analysis, and other modeling techniques
Principal RF/Microwave Design Engineer Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor Degree in Electrical Engineering or comparable STEM degree minimum of 5 years of relevant engineering experience (3+ years with MS degree; or PhD)

Proficient in RF/Microwave and mixed signal circuit design, schematic capture, and PWB/board layout
Ability to provide solutions to a broad variety of RF/Microwave design and test related problems of complex difficulty
Exhibit intermediate to expert proficiency with industry standard RF/Microwave modeling, simulation and printed circuit board design tools (e.g. Be able to work on multi-discipline engineering teams and communicate clearly within integrated product team leads
Easily adapt to design challenges to meet program goals and deadlines
Principal RF/Microwave Design Engineer Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor Degree in Electrical Engineering or comparable STEM degree minimum of 9 years of relevant engineering experience (7+ years with MS degree; or 4+ years with PhD)

Proficient in RF/Microwave and mixed signal circuit design, schematic capture, and PWB/board layout
Ability to provide solutions to a broad variety of RF/Microwave design and test related problems of complex difficulty
Expert proficiency with industry standard RF/Microwave modeling, simulation and printed circuit board design tools (e.g. Demonstrated Technical Team Leadership and ability to work on multi-discipline engineering teams and communicate clearly within integrated product team leads
Easily adapt to design challenges to meet program goals and deadlines
Active Top Secret / SCI security clearance
Experience in Worst Case Circuit Analysis (WCCA) including logic compatibility, component derating, timing analysis, signal and power integrity analyses
Signal integrity analysis (SERDES, Bit error rates, jitter components and contributors, board to board analysis)
Expertise in working with receiver/exciters, conducting RF performance analysis, and implementing digital beamforming
High-speed digital circuit design experience
Familiarity with Point of Load (PoL) design
Experience in integrating FPGA/Digital controls on the bench (no VHDL experience required)
RF budgeting, frequency planning, RF chain analysis and modeling
Ceramic and organic printed circuit board materials, design, fabrication, and assembly processes
In addition, Northrop Grumman provides a variety of benefits including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, savings plan, Company paid holidays and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business.
The application period for the job is estimated to be 20 days from the job posting date. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class.

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