Principal Experimental Thermal Engineer

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE
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Relocation assistance may be available.
CLEARANCE TYPE
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Secret.
TRAVEL
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Yes, 10% of the time.

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.

At the heart of Defining Possible is our commitment to missions. In rapidly changing global security environments, Northrop Grumman brings informed insights and software‑secure technology to enable strategic planning. We’re looking for innovators who can help us keep building on our wide portfolio of secure, affordable, integrated, and multi‑domain systems and technologies that fuel those missions. By joining in our shared mission, we’ll support you by expanding your personal network and developing skills, whether you are new to the field, or an industry thought leader.

At Northrop Grumman, you’ll have the resources, support, and team to do some of the best work of your career.

• Design and test sensor and radar cooling systems across the Mission Systems sector, including the airborne, ground mobile, ground stationary, and surface based naval domains, and across a variety of product types ranging from environmental control systems (ECS), sensor and radar cooling solutions, chassis, CCAs, and device level cooling applications.
• Design and test advanced electronics thermal management solutions using heat transfer principles to meet optimal thermal performance.
• Perform electronics thermal analysis, requiring experience in heat transfer, including liquid‑cooled, air‑cooled, two‑phase flow, and refrigeration thermal solutions for Mission Systems platforms such as airborne, ground based, and naval applications.
• Lead thermal designs by owning thermal requirement compliance, thermal architecture, and thermal performance of the design, while mentoring less experienced thermal engineers.
• Provide oral and written presentations to internal and external customers and stakeholders.

• Bachelor’s Degree with 5 years of experience, master’s degree with 6 years of experience, Ph.D. with 1 year of experience in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics or related technical fields.
• U.S. Citizenship is required.
• The ability to obtain/maintain a DoD Secret clearance.
• The ability to work onsite daily at the Linthicum, MD/Baltimore facility.
• Minimum of 2 years of heat transfer experimentation experience including test design, instrumentation selection, instrumentation application, and data acquisition.
• Minimum of 2 years of expertise in design by analysis with a finite volume or finite difference software package.
• Demonstrated application of advanced convective thermal management and design of single phase and two‑phase thermal design for high heat flux/high power density applications using analytical, high‑fidelity, or experimental methods.

• Active DoD Secret clearance or higher.
• Advanced Degree in Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering with concentration in Heat Transfer and Fluid Dynamics.
• Minimum of 2 years of experience with one or more of the following software packages: ANSYS Icepak, ANSYS Thermal Desktop, ANSYS Fluent.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience with automated control and acquisition of single phase and two‑phase cooling loops, using tools like Lab View to control National Instruments hardware, or similar.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience proposing and leading R&D programs which address challenging customer thermal requirements.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience…