Principal Communications Engineer

Relocation Assistance

Relocation assistance may be available. Clearance type:
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.

Please note that this opportunity is contingent on program funding. Start dates are determined after funding confirmation.

Northrop Grumman’s Aeronautics Systems sector is seeking a Principal Communications Engineer to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals in defining the future. This position will be located in Melbourne, FL.

• 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 capturing 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 documents from the supplier’s development effort and support supplier technical interchange meetings and design reviews
• Identify, plan, and execute informal and formal testing of subsystem requirements in lab, troubleshoot hardware in the lab
• Perform aircraft ground and flight test on subsystems to validate and verify subsystem requirement and sell‑off
• Support technical discussions with the customer and daily interaction with management, external personnel, customers, and various sub teams

A successful Communications Engineer has good leadership skills and understands the scope of the work and the impact of the work on other teams, consistently brings up concerns, issues and risks to program and technical leadership, and holds the team to a high level of technical rigor.

• Must have a Bachelor’s degree in a STEM discipline from an accredited university AND 5 years of related professional/military experience in engineering; OR a Master’s degree in a STEM discipline from an accredited university AND 3 years of related professional/military experience in engineering; or a Ph.D. AND 1 year of related professional/military experience in engineering.
• Ability to transfer and maintain final adjudicated government Secret clearance, and any program access(es) required for the position within a reasonable period of time, as determined by the company.
• Knowledge of electromagnetics in the RF spectrum (VHF through Ka bands).
• Ability to design, select and characterize RF components to meet mission objectives.
• Experience in one or more of the following: designing, integrating, testing, installing, operating LOS and BLOS communication systems in airborne military applications.
• Experience with voice, military and network waveforms.
• Experience with performance assessment through link margin and antenna pattern analyses.
• Experience with cryptographic implementations.
• Experience with RF antenna and component design and performance analysis.
• Experience with cosite analysis.

• Demonstrated problem‑solving ability and data…