Experimental Test Physicist - R10213428

Experimental Test Physicist - R at Northrop Grumman

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE:
Relocation assistance may be available.

CLEARANCE TYPE: A US Government security clearance per customer's requirements.

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.

Today’s dynamic global security threats require solutions both big and small – solutions living within the Northrop Grumman Microelectronics Center (NGMC). Boasting state-of-the-art design capabilities, multiple processing nodes, electrical testing, environmental and QCI screening, and failure analysis, the NGMC is a leader in designing, fabricating, packaging and delivering discriminating microelectronics to the military, aerospace, and commercial markets. For more than 70 years, we have been offering a wide range of trusted foundry and semiconductor services that deliver high performing and reliable microelectronics.

Our wide breadth of technologies and capabilities allows us to provide our customers with unique “More than Moore” solutions.

One of our most challenging new fields is Microelectronics Design and Applications (MDA), which combines the unique properties of superconductivity and quantum mechanics to develop radical new energy-efficient computing systems. MDA is seeking an Experimental Test Physicist to join our team and develop these technologies into high-performance computing systems. You’ll work in a fast‑paced team environment alongside physicists, design engineers, and superconducting foundry engineers to make these technologies a reality.

• Support test operations and test development activities by ensuring that the labs and systems are test ready, specifically for superconducting electronics test environments.
• Operate a test platform in a laboratory setting with the goal of collecting high quality data.
• Push the capabilities of the test platform hardware and software to meet the needs of our customers.

This position will serve on-site at our Advanced Technologies Laboratory located in Linthicum, MD.

• Completed Bachelors of Science degree in a STEM field (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) with 2 years of relevant technical experience;
  Completed Master’s degree in a STEM field with 6+ months of relevant technical experience.
• Experience supporting the general upkeep of electrical test labs and systems.
• Hands‑on experience with common laboratory hardware, such as voltage and current supplies, oscilloscopes, arbitrary waveform generators, or RF sources.
• Experience with writing MATLAB and/or Python code for either interfacing with equipment or analyzing data.
• Proficiency in basic circuit analysis and troubleshooting.
• Working in a team environment to tackle challenging problems.
• This position requires the applicant to be a U.S. citizen.
• Clearance:
  Candidate must be able to maintain a US Government security clearance.

• Familiarity working with cryogens, Liquid Helium and Nitrogen.
• Experience interfacing with test lab equipment through custom software.
• Experience working with superconducting electronics.
• Experience working with digital signal processing.
• Experience writing in a version‑controlled, OOP‑based codebase in Python or MATLAB.
• Strong analytic skills and familiarity in performing statistical analysis.
• Ability to adjust to changing priorities and requirements.
• Experience with diverse teams tackling large, challenging issues.
• Active…