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Hardware Test Engineer - Level 2 or 3
Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation · 🇺🇸 United States-California-Oxnard
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About the role
RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: No CLEARANCE TYPE: None 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’s Space Sector is seeking a Hardware Test Engineer - Level 2 or 3 to join our MEP organization in Oxnard, CA. This position is 100% onsite and cannot accommodate telecommute work. Northrop Grumman Mission Enabling Products (MEP) Business Unit designs, builds, and delivers space, defense and aviation-related systems to customers around the world. Our main products include satellites and associated space components and services, launch vehicles and related propulsion systems, missile products, subsystems and defense electronics, precision weapons, armament systems, and advanced aerospace structures. Learn more about Mission Enabling Products at our website: Mission Enabling Products | Northrop Grumman As a Hardware Test Engineer , you will design, develop, and implement testing methods and equipment. You will plan and coordinate the labor, schedules, and equipment required for testing and evaluating both standard and special devices. You will compile and analyze test data and define changes required in testing equipment, test procedures, manufacturing processes, or new test requirements. You will be responsible for testing all customer samples and for conducting special tests that cannot be performed in the standard test area. Job responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following: • Perform product testing in close collaboration with all parts of the Operating Unit, including test planning, coordination, setup, execution, data reduction, test reporting, and post-test data processing. • Perform integration of products with test tooling, software, equipment, and instrumentation. • Support test data collection, post-test data review, reporting, and verification of test requirements. • Support technical writing activities to produce clear and accurate test documentation. • Participate in and present at internal and external (customer) reviews. • Leverage modern tools and methods to reduce the cost and schedule of product testing. • Be accountable to the Operating Unit Operations Test Engineering Manager for meeting Operations Test Engineering safety, quality, delivery, and cost expectations of internal and external customers across the entire product value stream. • Must be able to support working multiple shifts; i.e., 1st shift 6:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. and 2nd shift 2:30 p.m. to midnight. This requisition may be filled at either a Level 2 or Level 3 based on the qualifications listed below. Basic Qualifications – Hardware Test Engineer (Level 2): • Bachelor's Degree in a STEM discipline with 2+ years of test engineering experience; OR a Master's Degree in a STEM discipline with 0 years of experience. • Experience troubleshooting test equipment, test tooling, and test harnesses. • Experience with test automation or other lean manufacturing/testing methodologies. • De