RF Microwave Design Engineer Level 4; Antenna Modeling - R10229864

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE:
No relocation assistance available

CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START:
No

CLEARANCE TYPE: SCI

TRAVEL:
Yes, 10% of the Time

Base location:
Baltimore, MD

Northrop Grumman is seeking engineers experienced in design and analysis of Electronically Scanned Arrays (ESAs) and other Antennas, Computational Electromagnetics (CEM), and RF/Microwave design to lead the development of next generation antenna products within the Space Systems organization.

• Leading a team of antenna design engineers and RF analysts through the design, modeling and simulation of complex and highly integrated antenna systems.
• Overseeing various RF analysis including antenna patterns, RF chain, link budgets, and installed performance.
• Providing RF performance characterization to drive antenna architecture and design decisions.
• Leading development of RF antenna modeling software tools in support of an enterprise tool suite.
• Integrating multiple data sets / components to characterize antenna sub-system performance.
• Presenting to internal and external customers.
• Mentoring junior engineers on antenna design and analysis.

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or similar engineering discipline (STEM) with a minimum of 8 years of design experience or 6 years with a master’s degree or 3 years with a Ph.D.
• Extensive antenna design and analysis experience for architectures including phased arrays, reflector antennas, phased array fed reflectors, and reflectarrays.
• Extensive experience with scientific programming languages such as Python, MATLAB, C#, C++, and Julia.
• Experience developing Python packages for internal deployment.
• Experience with GUI development to create user-friendly interfaces for internal scientific applications.
• Experience with CEM modeling tools such as TICRA, HFSS, and CST.
• Ability to translate system performance and operational specifications into hardware requirements, design, and test specifications.
• Experience leading teams, mentoring others, communicating with all levels of an organization internally and externally, being adaptable, creative, collaborative, and comfortable working independently and enjoys solving difficult problems.
• No clearance required to start but must have the ability to obtain and maintain SCI access.
• US Citizenship Required.

• Expertise in ESA antenna design and analysis experience from concept design through AI&T.
• Experience developing complex antenna architectures.
• Ability to derive antenna performance requirements and flow to subassemblies and components.
• Previous experience leading antenna design teams.
• Completed phased array, reflector, and PAFR design and analysis.
• Completed radiator, manifold or tile designs.
• Active TS/SCI.

Primary Salary Range: $ - $. Salary is based on scope, responsibilities, experience, education, skills, and market conditions.

Employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and discretionary bonus in addition to base pay.

Benefits include health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, savings plan, company paid holidays, and paid time off for vacation and/or personal business.

Northrop Grumman is an Equal Opportunity Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class. For our complete EEO and pay transparency statement, please visit  U.S. Citizenship is required for all positions with a government clearance and certain other restricted positions.