RF Antenna Cosite Engineer - R10215598

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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. 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.

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Northrop Grumman’s Aeronautics Systems sector is seeking a Staff RF Antenna Cosite Engineer to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals in defining the future. This position will be located in Melbourne, FL
. The successful candidate will contribute to the overall development and integration of RF subsystems, including analyzing performance, developing and managing requirements and interfaces, and verifying/validating all allocated requirements.

• 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.
• 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 have daily interaction with management, external personnel, customers, and various sub‑teams.

• Must have a Bachelor’s degree in a STEM discipline from an accredited university and 14 years of related professional/military experience in engineering; OR a Master’s degree in a STEM discipline from an accredited university and 12 years of related professional/military experience; OR a Ph.D. in a STEM discipline and 9 years of related professional/military experience.
• Active Secret DoD Clearance.
• 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 Computational Electromagnetic (CEM) antenna analysis for source/victim (co‑site) analysis.
• 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 cryptographic implementations.
  • Experience with RF antenna and component design and performance analysis.
  • Demonstrated problem‑solving ability and data analysis experience.
  • Knowledge of system engineering design methods, including requirements analysis and flow‑down, specification derivation and interface control documentation.

• Demonstrated strong verbal and written communication skills and the ability to work well in a close team environment.
• Experience engaging directly with internal and external technical and programmatic representatives.
• Demonstrated problem‑solving and troubleshooting skills.
• Demonstrated ability to assimilate new concepts quickly and…