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About the role
RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available
CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: Yes
CLEARANCE TYPE: SCI
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.
Expand your horizons, advance your career, and contribute to a secure future for generations. Northrop Grumman’s Space Sector invites you to bring your pioneering spirit to our collaborative teams. As an Electrical Engineer – Level 2 located in Dulles, VA, you’ll be a linchpin in missions of paramount importance, defining the art of the possible from day one. This position is 100% onsite and cannot accommodate telecommute work.
The Electrical Power Subsystem team for Northrop Grumman Space System's Defense and National Security operations team is looking to fill a starting engineering position. This role would be responsible for assisting with architecting, manufacturing, testing, and mission control operation of power generation, storage, and distribution systems for spacecraft. The ideal candidate for this position would have some previous experience or rudimentary knowledge of Li-ion batteries, Solar Arrays, the fundamentals of power regulation and conditioning circuitry, electrical testing, and manufacturing processes. Leadership skills, customer service experience, budget management, and a strong self-initiated work ethic are strongly preferred qualities.
This position will work a 9/80 schedule, with every other Friday off but does require some night/weekend shift work and periodic domestic and international travel.
Job responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:
• Responsible for technical, cost and schedule performance of the space vehicle electrical power subsystem
• Applies electrical engineering principles to adapt or improve upon heritage features from previous successful designs
• Prepares and presents analysis material for design reviews & major customer meetings
• Analyze and architect spacecraft power avionics, batteries, and solar arrays by utilizing standard engineering and scientific principles
• Provide subcontractor technical and project management oversight to ensure delivery needs of the spacecraft
• Perform technical trades
• Supports development and testing in Integration & Test
• Supports mission operations for post launch activities
• Perform voltage drop analysis, energy balance analysis, fuse sizing & transient analysis, equipment degradation analysis
• Subsystem requirements generation, decomposition, and overall management
• Analyze on-ground failures and in-orbit anomalies. Earned value reporting for cost account
• Other duties as assigned
If this job description reads like it was written specifically for you, consider joining our team!
This position is contingent upon the candidate obtaining final clearances and program access(es) within a reasonable period of time as determined by the company.
Basic Qualifications for Level 2:
• Bachelor’s degree with 2 years of professional experience – OR – Master’s degree with 0 year
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