Staff Engineer Electronics - RF Antenna Cosite (Melbourne FL)

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: Yes

CLEARANCE TYPE: Interim Top Secret

TRAVEL: Yes, 10% of the Time

Description

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 pioneering and inventive spirit has enabled us to be at the forefront of many technological advancements in our nation's history - from the first flight across the Atlantic Ocean, to stealth bombers, to landing on the moon. We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage and a pioneering spirit to join forces to invent the future, and have fun along the way. 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. Our employees are not only part of history, they're making history.

Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems has an opening for a Staff Engineer Electronics - RF Antenna Cosite to join the team of qualified individuals in our Avionics and Subsystems Organization. This role is located onsite in Melbourne, FL.

In this role you will be supporting the overall development and integration of RF Subsystems, including analyzing performance, developing and managing requirements and interfaces, and verifying/validating all allocated requirements.

Key Responsibilities: 

• Support development and integration of communications and other RF subsystems and components to meet platform mission objectives
• Requirements development, analysis, maturation and implementation translating customer requirements into derived specifications
• Perform Computational Electromagnetic (CEM) antenna analysis for source/victim (co-site) analysis
• Conducting detailed trade studies
• Performing risk analysis and developing mitigation plans and tracking to closure
• Collaborate with engineers and program stakeholders
• Developing and maintaining supplier documentation, performance-based specifications, and statements of work
• Technical management of program strategic partners and suppliers, including development, acquisition, acceptance, qualification, system integration and test support
• Review documents from the supplier’s development effort and support supplier technical interchange meetings and design reviews
• Identifying/planning/executing informal and formal testing of subsystem requirements in lab, troubleshooting hardware in the lab
• Performing aircraft ground and flight test on subsystems to validate and verify subsystem requirement and sell-off
• Support technical discussions with the customer and having daily interaction with management, external personnel, customers, and various sub teams

Basic Qualifications:

• Must have a Bachelor’s degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) discipline AND 12 years of related professional/military experience in Engineering; OR a Master’s degree in a (STEM) discipline AND 10 years of related professional/military experience in Engineering; or a Ph.D. (STEM) discipline AND 8 years of related professional/military experience in Engineering.
• Must have knowledge of electromagnetics in the RF spectrum (VHF through Ka bands)
• Must have the ability to design, select and characterize RF components to meet mission objectives
• Must have experience in Computational Electromagnetic (CEM) antenna analysis for source/victim (co-site) analysis
• Must have designing, integrating, testing, installing, operating LOS and BLOS communication systems in airborne military applications
• Must have experience with voice, military and network waveforms
• Must have experience with cryptographic implementations
• Must have experience with RF antenna and component design and performance analysis
• Must have demonstrated problem-solving ability and data analysis experience
• Must have knowledge of system engineering design methods, including requirements analysis and flow-down, specification derivation and interface control documentation
• Must have an active US Government Clearance (with a background investigation within the past 6 years or enrolled into Continuous Evaluation).
• Must have an Interim US Government Top Secret Clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain US Government Top Secret Clearance within a reasonable amount of time as determined by business needs.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Active U.S. Government Top Secret Security Clearance
• Experience engaging directly with internal and external technical and programmatic representatives
• Ability to assimilate new concepts quickly and independently and work in a self-directed manner
• Experience in model-based systems engineering using Cameo or similar SysML tools
• Experience in performance analysis using MATLAB and Excel or similar tools
• Familiarity with Atlassian collaboration tool set (Jira and Confluence)
• Experience in supplier/subcontract management
• Experience with developing supplier documentation, performance-based specifications, and statements of work
• Experience building supplier evaluation criteria and experience in conducting technical evaluations, documenting results and selection
• Ability to review documents from the supplier’s development effort and support supplier technical interchange meetings and design review

Primary Level Salary Range: $152,900.00 - $229,300.00

The above salary range represents a general guideline; however, Northrop Grumman considers a number of factors when determining base salary offers such as the scope and responsibilities of the position and the candidate's experience, education, skills and current market conditions.

Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay. Annual bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions as well as allow employees to share in company results. Employees in Vice President or Director positions may be eligible for Long Term Incentives. 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. However, this timeline may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates.

Northrop Grumman is an Equal Opportunity 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. For our complete EEO and pay transparency statement, please visit http://www.northropgrumman.com/EEO. U.S. Citizenship is required for all positions with a government clearance and certain other restricted positions.