PRINCIPAL ENGINEERING - DIGITAL

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

Job Description:

Category: Engineering
* Clearance Type: Interim Secret
* 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. We deliver capabilities across the technology spectrum that align to key national security priorities and enable endless paths to cultivate your career.
Our sustainability ethos defines who we are, drives how we impact the world around us, and inspires us to improve the lives of the people in our communities.
AMS E&S is seeking engineers with experience and interest in electronic assembly and packaging design.
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
* Working directly with component level design peers developing custom RF integrated circuit designs to meet assembly-level requirements
* Collaborating with peer functions such as Mechanical, Manufacturing, Quality, Supply Chain, and Test
* Utilizing world class manufacturing capabilities both on-site and within the broader company for prototyping through full rate production from the foundry level to microelectronic packaging to printed circuit board fabrication and assembly to subsystem level integration and test
* Working directly with a wide variety of different external supplier partners including leading domestic foundries, printed circuit board fabricators and assemblers, component manufacturers, material fabricators, and more
* This requisition may be filled at either the Principal Engineer RF Microwave Design or the Sr. Principal Engineer RF Microwave design.
Electrical Engineering or related STEM field degree: Bachelor of Science with 5 years of RF/microwave experience; or PhD degree. Must obtain and maintain an interim secret clearance (minimum) prior to starting.
* Ability to provide solutions to a broad variety of RF/Microwave design and test related problems of complex difficulty. Developing subject matter expertise in one or more areas of RF/Microwave discipline including but not limited to: RF components & assemblies, requirements development, EM and related modeling & simulation, RF test verification, production test support, and design for producibility
* Exhibit intermediate to expert proficiency with industry standard RF/Microwave modeling, simulation and printed circuit board design tools (i.e. Proven knowledge of electrical engineering design software and equipment
Senior Principal Engineer Basic Qualifications:
* Electrical Engineering or related STEM field degree: Bachelors of Science with 9 years of RF/microwave experience; PhD degree with 4 years of experience. Must obtain and maintain an interim secret clearance (minimum) prior to starting.
* Ability to provide solutions to a broad variety of RF/Microwave design and test related problems of complex difficulty. Developing subject matter expertise in one or more areas of RF/Microwave discipline including but not limited to: RF components & assemblies, requirements development, EM and related modeling & simulation, RF test verification, production test support, and design for producibility
* Exhibit intermediate to expert proficiency with industry standard RF/Microwave modeling, simulation and printed circuit board design tools (i.e. Proven knowledge of electrical engineering design software and equipment.
Preferred Qualifications for both Principal and Senior Principal roles:
* Secret or Top Secret / SCI security clearance
* RF and mixed signal printed circuit board and circuit card assembly level design
* RF budgeting, frequency planning, RF chain analysis and modeling, schematic capture, electromagnetic simulation, signal integrity analysis
* Ceramic and organic printed circuit board materials, design, fabrication, and assembly processes
* RF lab equipment such as network analyzers, spectrum analyzers, signal generators, power meters, etc.
* Electronic troubleshooting from component to assembly levels
* Complex data reduction and analysis
* Software tools: Mentor Xpedition DX Designer, ANSYS HFSS, Keysight ADS, Keysight Genesys, MathWorks MATLAB, Autodesk AutoCAD, and Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, PowerPoint, Project, Word)
Role is contingent on candidate's ability to obtain and maintain an Interim Secret Clearance and Program Award. 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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