Engineer / Principal Engineer Systems Test
Northrop Grumman · San Diego, CA · 6 days ago
On-siteQuality Assurance$83k–$125k/yrFull-time
About the role
Northrop Grumman Mission Systems is seeking a Systems Engineer Test to support the Systems Engineering organization. The Systems Engineer will provide technical advice and guidance as part of a deployment team and perform hands-on technical tasks during system installation and integration activities.
Responsibilities
- Conduct integration activities in a dedicated lab environment, coordinating with customers
- Operate, calibrate, and maintain a multi-vendor lab environment (digital, fiber, 1394 bus systems)
- Perform digital-bus troubleshooting and fault-code interpretation for PHM
- Resolve integration issues in a proactive, self-managed manner
- Apply RF experience for signal integrity, interference mitigation, and test procedures
- Work with Anonymous Subscriber Messaging protocol, ensuring secure, compliant data exchanges
- Work autonomously with minimal supervision
- Maintain good customer relations
Qualifications
- Bachelor of Science degree in STEM field with 2 years of experience; 0 years with a Master's Degree; 4 years of additional experience may be added in lieu of a degree.
- Laboratory integration experience
- The ability to obtain and maintain a US Government Secret security clearance
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with tactical avionics radios and test equipment for communications, navigation and identification
- CNI integration and test experience
- Familiarity with DoD maintenance manuals and military standard maintenance practices
- Working knowledge of engineering tools for documentation, code and schematic configuration management, such as JIRA, ClearCase, GIT
- Working knowledge of Requirements management tools and Model Based Systems Engineering tools such as DOORS and Cameo
- Experience troubleshooting with embedded systems, RF and digital signals systems and familiarity with associated design documentation, schematics, wiring diagrams, ICDs
- An active US Government Secret security clearance
Pay
Primary Level Salary Range: $83,400.00 - $125,200.00
Secondary Level Salary Range: $103,600.00 - $155,400.00