Staff Electronics EW Engineer
About the role
Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems has an opening for a Staff Electronics EW Engineer to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals. This position will be located in Melbourne, FL and will be based within our office spaces to support the program and business needs. The selected engineer will perform as a member of an interdisciplinary team in a key effort to develop novel and innovative solutions to advanced technical problems. The successful engineer will contribute to the overall development of Electronic Warfare subsystems, including developing functional architectures, analyzing performance, developing and managing requirements and interfaces, and verifying/validating all allocated requirements. You will design, develop, build, and test EW systems in conjunction with key suppliers. A successful EW Engineer has good leadership skills and understands the scope of the work and the impact of the work on other teams, consistently brings up concerns, issues and risks to program and technical leadership and holds the team to a high level of technical rigor.
Responsibilities
- Lead and/or support development and integration of electronic warfare subsystems and components to meet platform mission objectives
- Requirements development, analysis, maturation and implementation, translating customer requirements into hardware and software specifications
- Performing functional and performance analyses
- Conducting detailed trade studies
- Performing risk analysis and developing mitigation plans and tracking to closure
- Collaborate with engineers and program stakeholders
- Technical management of program strategic partners and suppliers, including development, acquisition, acceptance, qualification, system integration and test support
- Identifying/planning/executing informal and formal testing of subsystem requirements in lab, troubleshooting hardware in the lab
- Performing aircraft ground and flight test on subsystems to validate and verify subsystem requirement and sell-off
- Lead and/or support technical discussions with the customer and have daily interaction with management, external personnel, customers, and various sub teams
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) discipline from an accredited university with 12 years of related professional/military experience in Engineering; OR a Master's degree in a STEM discipline from an accredited university with 10 years of related professional/military experience in Engineering; or a Ph.D. with 8 years of related professional/military experience in Engineering
- Knowledge of electromagnetics in the RF spectrum (VHF through Ka bands)
- Experience designing, developing, integrating, and/or testing RF equipment for airborne platforms
- Experience implementing system engineering design methods, including requirements analysis and flow-down, specification derivation and interface control documentation
- Experience engaging directly with internal and external technical and programmatic representatives
- Experience in supplier/subcontract management
- Ability to transfer and maintain the final adjudicated government Secret clearance, and any program access(es) required for the position within a reasonable period of time, as determined by the company
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience designing, developing, integrating, and/or testing EW or Radar subsystems for airborne platforms
- Experience with RF antenna and component design and performance analysis
- Experience in model-based systems engineering using Cameo or similar SysML tools
- Experience with generating and managing requirements in DOORs
- Experience in performance analysis using MATLAB and Excel or similar tools
- Familiarity with Atlassian collaboration tool set (Jira and Confluence)
- Experience with developing supplier documentation, performance-based specifications, and statements of work
- Experience building supplier evaluation criteria and experience in conducting technical evaluations, documenting results and selection
- Ability to review documents from the supplier's development effort and support supplier technical interchange meetings and design review
- Active DoD Top Secret Clearance
- Demonstrated problem solving and troubleshooting skills
- Demonstrated ability to assimilate new concepts quickly and independently and work in a self-directed manner
- Demonstrated strong verbal and written communication skills and the ability to work well in a close team environment
Pay & Schedule
- Salary range: $152,900.00 - $229,300.00
- Relocation assistance may be available
- Travel: Yes, 10% of the Time
- 9/80 schedule (every other Friday off)
- No hybrid or remote work available