Principal/Senior Principal Electromechanical Reliability Engineer

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. Northrop Grumman Mission Systems is a trusted provider of mission-enabling solutions for global security. We have a wide portfolio of secure, affordable, integrated, and multi-domain systems and technologies. Our differentiated battle management and cyber solutions deliver timely, mission-enabling information and provide superior situational awareness and understanding to protect the U.S. and its global allies.   We are looking for you to join our team as a Principal/Sr. Principal Electromechanical Reliability Engineer based out of Linthicum, MD.   What You’ll Get to Do: As a Principal/Sr. Principal Engineer within the Reliability Analysis Laboratory group you will have a challenging and rewarding opportunity to be a part of our hardware engineering organization. You will provide critical analysis in support of high visibility investigations at a component level to solve root cause and guide multi-disciplinary engineering teams to optimal corrective actions. You will closely collaborate with materials, design, manufacturing and test engineering to ensure continuous product performance meets and exceeds customer requirements. • Diagnose and isolate failure modes using advanced electrical and thermal characterization tools, including oscilloscopes, parametric analyzers, and curve tracers. • Investigate and identify root causes of components and device level failures such as short, opens, excessive leakage, performance degradation, thermal instability • Must have fundamental knowledge in failure mechanisms and accelerated life testing of electronic devices • Analyze electronic components using non-destructive and destructive techniques such as X-ray imaging, acoustic microscope, time-domain reflectometry, IV curves • Collaborate with cross-discipline teams of engineers to determine root cause and provide corrective action for improving reliability life cycle within design, manufacturing and qualification • Familiarity with reading electronic schematics for electronic components and circuit cards • Actively participate in technical reviews to share technical analysis results with program stakeholders • Working knowledge of compound semiconductor fabrication and testing • Fundamental knowledge of electronic packages construction and functionality: FPGA, QFNs, Wire-bonding, Flip-Chip devices • Communicate technical results and status updates to management and program stakeholders • Ability to obtain and maintain the necessary level of US Government security clearance per customer requirements This position is contingent upon the ability to obtain an active U.S Government Secret Clearance or the successful transfer of an active US. Government Secret Clearance prior to start.   Basic Qualifications for a Principal Engineer: • Bachelor’s Degree with 5 years of experience, master’s degree