Sr. Principal Electrical Engineer - Level 4 - Avionics Design Group

Relocation assistance may be available. U.S. Citizenship is required. Ability to obtain/maintain a DoD Active Secret Clearance. Travel: 10% of the time.

About the role

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. As a member of the circuit design team within the Launch Vehicles business unit at the Chandler, AZ facility, you’ll be responsible for circuit design and development for programs.

Responsibilities

• Perform detailed board-level digital and mixed signal circuit design, circuit analysis, and simulation to verify as-designed circuit response meets requirement criteria.
• Select component parts for the design to meet stringent environments, including radiation effects.
• Evaluate completed design with more senior engineers and other technical groups and make modifications necessary to achieve a design that satisfies requirements.
• Write design and test documentation including analyses, specifications, user manuals, test procedures, etc.
• Support the qualification testing phase by developing test procedures and reports.
• Oversee, with senior engineer oversight, component supplier design, analysis, manufacture, and test.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree with 8 years’ digital/mixed signal design experience or Master’s degree with 6 years’ experience.
• Ability to understand and adhere to department design standards.
• Ability to work in an Agile project format, team-based environment, including Jira and Git.
• Experience with schematic capture and board layout.
• Familiarity with microprocessor and/or FPGA circuit design.
• Proficiency with circuit simulation including PSpice or LTSpice.
• Experience in hardware troubleshooting/software debugging.
• Physical testing experience including lab measurement (oscilloscope, signal/function generator, logic analyzer, etc).
• Experience generating design documents, specifications, user's manuals, test plans, and procedures.

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with Cadence, Matlab, VHDL, Python.
• Familiarity with circuit design for military/space environments.
• Active DoD Secret Security Clearance.

Pay

Primary level salary range: $122,800.00 - $184,200.00. The above salary range represents a general guideline; however, Northrop Grumman considers a number of factors when determining base salary offers such as the scope and responsibilities of the position and the candidate's experience, education, skills, and current market conditions. Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay. Annual bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions as well as allow employees to share in company results. Employees in Vice President or Director positions may be eligible for Long Term Incentives.

Benefits

• Health insurance coverage.
• Life and disability insurance.
• Savings plan.
• Company-paid holidays and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business.