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Staff Engineer RF Microwave Design
Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation · 🇺🇸 United States-Maryland-Baltimore
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About the role
RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: Yes CLEARANCE TYPE: 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. The AESA Subsystems and Product Leadership organization at Northrop Grumman Missions Systems in Baltimore, Maryland is seeking a Staff Engineer RF Microwave Design to support several of our onsite product lines. What You’ll get to Do: In this role, you will lead the Hardware Design Team, and partner with other engineering function leaders to progress and mature hardware product in support of critical engineering reviews and milestones. This position supports the full design lifecycle including development, integration, and test. Related job functions include: • Oversee the design, modeling, and verification of the RF, microwave, and mixed signal assemblies. • Lead verification efforts for RF, Analog, and Digital hardware designs, as well as troubleshooting efforts and failure investigations. • Collaborating with peer functions such as Mechanical, Manufacturing, Test, and IC design Engineers. • Deriving and trading requirements with subsystem engineers and component level designers • Mentor other engineers from a technical standpoint as well as perform senior peer review. This position requires that you are able to contribute as an RF or Hardware Lead within the AESA Hardware Subsystem Discipline. Candidate is preferred to have an engineering background and has experience leading a small team of engineers that has executed tasks involving the following: • Familiarity with Antenna I&T\Analysis Subsystem parts (CCAs, front-end technology, Receiver-Exciter, phased array technology) and their capabilities • Familiarity with Antenna I&T\Analysis Subsystem metrics and requirements that are assessed (Gain, ERP, CPCR, Sensitivity, TOI, Noise Figure, various antenna subsystem health status, RF chain\paths) • Familiarity with Antenna I&T\Analysis Hardware testing environments: • Build-up stations of components\parts (Labs with program STE Test Racks) • Antenna Ranges (Near-Field, Compact Range, Far-Field, Spherical Near-Field) • Familiarity with AESA Sub-system Hardware flow processes • Pattern Analysis and modeling of AESA Subsystem hardware • ATP Testing flow (build, environmental screening, approval to move forward to NHA, TRRs, Post-Test Data reviews, Consent to Break, OK for Stores, OK to ship) • Understands the Design Process (PDR, DDR, CDR checklists and design gate deliverables) • Tools utilized for data processing\analysis (MATLAB, Python) • Documentation for Hardware (T-Specs, OTSAs, hardware drawings, ICDs, Set Selection Drawings) • Quality processes utilized in hardware anomaly cases (QNs, FRBs, MRBs, Engineering response to hardware failures in the ATP Test Flow, and Qualification phase) These positions are contingent upon having an Active Secret Clearance and obtaining SAP clearance. These positions are contingent upon Program Award. Basic Qualifications: • Bache