Principal Communications Engineer - R10214369

Principal Communications Engineer – R

Location:

Melbourne, FL.

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’s Aeronautics Systems sector is seeking a Principal Communications Engineer to join our team in defining the future. The selected engineer will be a member of an interdisciplinary team on a key effort to develop novel and innovative solutions to advanced technical problems. Responsibilities include developing communications subsystems, analyzing performance, managing requirements and interfaces, and verifying/validating all allocated requirements.

• Support development and integration of communications subsystems and components to meet platform mission objectives
• Requirements development, analysis, maturation and implementation translating customer requirements into hardware and software specifications
• Perform MBSE and capture requirements, interfaces, behaviors, structures and para metrics
• Perform performance and functional analyses
• Conduct detailed trade studies
• Perform risk analysis and develop mitigation plans and track to closure
• Collaborate with engineers and program stakeholders
• Develop and maintain 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 supplier documents and support technical interchange meetings and design reviews
• Identify, plan, and execute informal and formal testing of subsystem requirements in lab; troubleshoot hardware in lab
• Perform aircraft ground and flight test on subsystems to validate and verify subsystem requirements and sell‑off
• Support technical discussions with the customer and maintain daily interaction with management, external personnel, customers, and sub‑teams

• Bachelor’s degree in a STEM discipline from an accredited university and 5 years of related professional/military engineering experience; or Master’s degree in a STEM discipline and 3 years of related experience; or Ph.D. and 1 year of related experience
• Transfer and maintain a final adjudicated Government Secret clearance, and any program access required within a reasonable timeframe
• Knowledge of electromagnetics in the RF spectrum (VHF through Ka bands) and ability to design, select and characterize RF components
• Experience in one or more of the following: designing, integrating, testing, installing, operating LOS and BLOS communication systems in airborne military applications; voice, military and network waveforms; performance assessment through link margin and antenna pattern analyses; cryptographic implementations; RF antenna and component design and performance analysis; cosite analysis

• Demonstrated problem‑solving ability and data analysis experience
• Knowledge of systems engineering design methods, including requirements analysis and flow‑down, specification derivation and interface control documentation
• Interpersonal communication, presentation skills, verbal and written communication skills
• Experience designing, developing, integrating, and/or testing EW or radar subsystems for airborne platforms
• Experience in model‑based systems engineering using Cameo or similar SysML tools
• Experience in performance analysis using MATLAB and Excel or similar tools
• Familiarity with Atlassian collaboration…