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Principal / Sr Principal RF Design Engineer
Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation · 🇺🇸 United States-Illinois-Rolling Meadows
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About the role
RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: No CLEARANCE TYPE: Secret TRAVEL: No 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. This position will be located in Rolling Meadows, IL. The qualified applicant will become part of Northrop Grumman's Specialized Tactical Electronic Warfare Systems (STEWS) team, where they will work on a variety of electronic equipment and systems that include airborne RF and IR systems, laboratory test stations, and transportable flight line electronic combat system test sets. Roles and Responsibilities include, but are not limited to: • Design, develop, perform hardware/system integration and test, and support deployment of systems and system modifications · Troubleshoot hardware (systems and subassemblies) to determine root cause of failures and identify corrective actions · Support transitions from design to production · Maintain process and procedures in accordance with ISO standards · Provide technical support to Northrop depot and USAF technicians and work with suppliers to resolve technical hardware issues · Create engineering documentation (specifications, change notices, parts lists, bills of materials, test reports, test procedures) • Interface with and present to internal and external customers • Subsystem integration, test, and system integration • Conducting Test Readiness Reviews (TRR) • Perform in-depth analysis of hardware commanding down to the register level • undefined • undefined • undefined • RF/Microwave system design • Research, design, development, and simulation of Electronic Warfare systems, and defining and developing processing algorithms for real-time implementation • Design, prototype and test digital subsystems, including circuit cards using FPGAs, embedded processors, and high-speed interfaces. *** This position may be filled at either Principal or Sr. Principal levels.*** · Basic Qualifications Principal Electronics Engineer: Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering or similar engineering discipline with 5+ years of related experience · Excellent interpersonal, communication and organizational skills · Proficient in MS office · US Citizenship and the ability to obtain a Department of Defense (DoD) Secret Clearance · Proficient in MATLAB · Experience processing large amounts of data · Have an understanding of RF Performance Analysis Basic Qualifications Sr. Principal Electronics Engineer: · Must have a Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or related discipline with 8 years of experience in the areas described in the job description or Master's Degree with 6 years of experience or PhD with 3 years of experience · An additional 4 years of experience on lieu of degree. · Sr. Principal Engineers should have a demonstrated ability in technical and team leadership overseeing engineers with experience at least at the Principal level. · Strong knowledge using MATLAB