Systems Engineer; RF Communications

Overview

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE:
Relocation assistance may be available
CLEARANCE TYPE:
Top Secret
TRAVEL:
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.

Join Northrop Grumman – Cincinnati (aka Xetron), part of Mission Systems sector, focused on the development of new capabilities for our military and intelligence customers around the globe. Our Northrop Grumman Cincinnati, Ohio small business culture operates collaboratively within a larger corporation providing the benefits of both. This unique relationship offers employees the ability to know everyone at the site while working on technologies and products that are beyond state-of-the-art.

You and your team will wrestle with the next big problems in an atmosphere of collaboration and cooperation, sharing your expertise while learning from the expert next to you. Remember when you were excited about getting to work because the challenge of the problem, the importance of the solution and the fun you had with your team? It's that kind of place!

We are seeking a cleared or clearable Staff Systems Engineer for a critical leadership role in our Systems Engineering Group as a key contributor to the successful completion of RF Communications projects. Professionals who want to solve the challenges that make a difference to our nation’s security.

This position is perfect for a candidate who can lead design efforts to produce new hardware products at the Xetron facility that support National Defense partners. The products produced at this facility support all domains of intelligence and defense battle-spaces including land, sea, air and space. Many of the problem-sets our customers expect us to solve do not have known solutions, so ingenuity is essential.

The staff systems engineer has overall technical responsibility for the electrical design, development, integration, and test for the development project and serves as the primary point of contact for the external customer and internal development engineering team. Ideal candidates for this position have substantial breadth and depth of knowledge in all aspects of engineering with a focus in producing deployable hardware products derived from generalized customer mission objectives and goals.

The candidate must have the ability to independently form innovative solutions to difficult problems and lead teams of highly skilled engineers to execute these solutions and act as the link between technical and business goals of the project.

Typical teams are 5-10 people and require our engineers to have diverse skill-sets that apply to the entire lifecycle of a program. This position allows the candidate to have direct contact with our end customers and end operators of our products, which allows for pragmatic and early feedback from the user community during the design process. Preferred technical background includes experience with collaborating across engineering teams to resolve and integrate technical/engineering requirements and verify their incorporation into the resulting product.

Candidates for this position should have:

• Substantial breadth and depth of knowledge in all aspects of engineering with a focus in producing deployable RF sensor and collection systems

• Engineering team leadership and direct technical contribution with RF hardware communication and collection design projects

• Experience in extracting derived requirements and generating…