Sr. Principal Electrical Engineer IV
Listed on 2026-06-05
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Engineering
Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineer
RELOCATION ASSISTANCE:
Relocation assistance may be available
CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START:
Yes
CLEARANCE TYPE:
Secret
TRAVEL:
Yes, 10% of the Time
Northrop Grumman Space Systems is currently seeking a Senior Principal Electrical Engineer IV in our Chandler, AZ facility. The Chandler group performs cradle‑to‑grave engineering on the majority of their launch vehicles, working on approximately 15 separate vehicles at any given time, including GPI, Antares, Minotaur, Pegasus, GMD, Sentinel, and others. Their products serve a variety of purposes including ISS cargo resupply, deploying defense satellites, developing missile interceptor technology, and providing target vehicles to enhance military capability.
The role offers opportunities to participate in design, operations planning, ground support development, analysis, testing, integration, launch operations, and more.
- Based on specific objectives, perform analysis, design, and/or test of complex designs.
- Perform comprehensive review of internal, external, industry, customer, and range requirements to support system and subsystem designs.
- Perform detailed analyses to support/verify designs and conduct briefings to management and customers.
- Lead development, coordination, and execution of test programs required to evaluate the design.
- Lead troubleshooting efforts and comprehensive failure investigations.
- Mentor other engineers from a technical standpoint as well as perform senior peer review.
- Collaborate early and often with other IPTs, engineering disciplines and operations/manufacturing groups.
- Broad understanding and application of industry and company electrical engineering technical standards.
- Broad technical expertise and working knowledge of other related disciplines.
- Prepares and presents electrical engineering materials for Requirements and Design Reviews.
- Perform qualification acceptance testing, characterization testing, troubleshooting, and test data review of completed complex system designs.
- Perform data analysis to identify trends that may indicate out of tolerance or degraded part performance.
- Perform testing to characterize off-nominal behavior of components.
- Actively and effectively participates and contributes in a positive manner while supporting team decisions and goals.
- Makes an extra effort to provide quality internal and external customer service.
- Constantly seeks new sources of information and provides information necessary to meet customer needs.
- Disciplined with escalation when required.
- Derives and decomposes requirements through multiple sources of documentation and design meetings.
- Evaluate uncertainty and risks associated with requirements and designs.
- Participates in trade studies for both internal projects and procured equipment.
- Act with safety as your number one priority through every aspect of the role.
- Provides formal peer review of engineering designs or analyses for team members.
- BS in Electrical Engineering and 9 Years' Experience or 7 Years Experience and Masters.
- U.S. Citizenship is required.
- Must have a current and active U.S. DoD Secret Security clearance or higher at time of application.
- Active Secret Security Clearance, or higher.
- Experience with missile systems and associated standards.
- Prior experience with the design, test, and/or integration and deployment of electrical components or subsystems.
- Release of engineering documentation including technical drawings, specifications, and test procedures.
- Burndown of nonconformances and/or root cause failure analysis of electronic systems.
- Evaluate uncertainty and risks associated with requirements and designs.
- Derives and decomposes requirements through multiple sources of documentation and design meetings.
- Problem solving not only for technical issues, but also for schedule, cost, resource and other project challenges.
- Mentoring and cross-training team members across a diverse set of technologies and electrical system architectures used to meet customer requirements.
- Knowledgeable with the use of basic test equipment such as power supplies, oscilloscopes, DMMs, and electronic…
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