Senior Staff Engineering RF Microwave Design

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be availableCLEARANCE TYPE: SecretTRAVEL: 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 Missions Systems / Combat Sensors business unit is seeking experienced engineers with expertise in the design, integration, and production support of highly complex RF Subsystem (LRU) and Assembly (LRM and lower component level) related to back-end Signal Conversion Technology/Receiver/Exciter. This requisition is for two positions tied to Workload Forecast Demand IDs 287221 and 254712.

Qualified candidates will lead a diverse and talented team of engineers developing, integrating and providing production-follow of our next generation receiver/exciter systems. Applicants shall be capable of applying advanced technical principles, theories, concepts, and practical technical experience to the design, integration and production support of back-end Signal Conversion Technology products.

Responsibilities will include development of RF receiver / exciter architectures, requirements generation/flow down; RF subsystem analysis including hardware from RF to digits, RF performance modeling, test integration for requirements verification, and interface with adjacent subsystems and top-level system. Work will be performed under consultative direction toward predetermined long-range goals and objectives. Experienced applicants will have at least a Bachelor's Degree in Science or other related technical degree and have experience designing, developing and/or testing radio frequency (RF) and/or microwave systems and/or related RF hardware. Candidates should have the ability to work on unusually complex technical problems and provide solutions which are highly innovative and ingenious.

In addition, this candidate should have demonstrated technical ability/leadership and expertise in one or more of the following areas:

RF Receiver/Exciters technology
RF Performance Analysis
Computational Electromagnetics, Statistics
RF Subsystem Control Design
Receiver / Exciter subsystem and assembly level measurements and Data Reduction
Subsystem and Assembly Level Control and Integration
Subsystem requirements (hardware and software) derivation, flow-down, and configuration
Familiarity working with embedded real time software and digital systems
Familiarity with firmware development tool suites including Quartus and Vivado
Comfortable creating test support applications and tools using MATLAB, python, etc