Staff Engineer Electronics - RF Antenna Cosite (Melbourne FL
Listed on 2026-08-21
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Engineering
Systems Engineer, Electronics Engineer
Location: Melbourne
RELOCATION ASSISTANCE:
Relocation assistance may be available
CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START:
Yes
CLEARANCE TYPE:
Interim Top Secret
TRAVEL:
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.
Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems has an opening for a Staff Engineer Electronics - RF Antenna Cosite to join the team of qualified individuals in our Avionics and Subsystems Organization
. This role is located onsite in Melbourne, FL
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In this role you will be supporting the overall development and integration of RF Subsystems, including analyzing performance, developing and managing requirements and interfaces, and verifying/validating all allocated requirements.
Key Responsibilities:
- Support development and integration of communications and other RF subsystems and components to meet platform mission objectives
- Requirements development, analysis, maturation and implementation translating customer requirements into derived specifications
- Perform Computational Electromagnetic (CEM) antenna analysis for source/victim (co-site) analysis
- Conducting detailed trade studies
- Performing risk analysis and developing mitigation plans and tracking to closure
- Collaborate with engineers and program stakeholders
- Developing and maintaining supplier documentation, performance-based specifications, and statements of work
- Technical management of program strategic partners and suppliers, including development, acquisition, acceptance, qualification, system integration and test support
- Review documents from the supplier’s development effort and support supplier technical interchange meetings and design reviews
- 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
- Support technical discussions with the customer and having daily interaction with management, external personnel, customers, and various sub teams
Basic Qualifications:
- Must have a Bachelor’s degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) discipline AND 12 years of related professional/military experience in Engineering; OR a Master’s degree in a (STEM) discipline AND 10 years of related professional/military experience in Engineering; or a Ph.D. (STEM) discipline AND 8 years of related professional/military experience in Engineering.
- Must have knowledge of electromagnetics in the RF spectrum (VHF through Ka bands)
- Must have the ability to design, select and characterize RF components to meet mission objectives
- Must have experience in Computational Electromagnetic (CEM) antenna analysis for source/victim (co-site) analysis
- Must have designing, integrating, testing, installing, operating LOS and BLOS communication systems in airborne military applications
- Must have experience with voice, military and network waveforms
- Must have experience with cryptographic implementations
- Must have experience with RF antenna and component design and performance analysis
- Must have demonstrated problem-solving ability and data analysis experience
- Must have knowledge of system engineering design methods, including requirements analysis and flow-down, specification derivation and interface control documentation
- Must have an active US Government Clearance (with a background investigation within the past 6 years or enrolled into Continuous…
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