Sr. EW​/RF Systems Test Engineer

Overview

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE:
Relocation assistance may be available. CLEARANCE TYPE:
Secret. TRAVEL:
Yes, 10% of the Time.

Northrop Grumman seeks a Sr. Staff EW/RF Systems Test Engineer to join our Aeronautics Systems sector in Melbourne, FL. We look for bold ideas, courage, and a pioneering spirit to invent the future while having fun along the way.

• Leads the planning, coordination, and analysis to support development, integration, test, production, and flight test.
• As a technical leader collaborate with leadership on system requirements generation and associated flow down, subsystem design/analysis, and subsystem performance verification including lab and range testing.
• Support any stage of the aircraft system life cycle activity such as developing primary designs, integrating into a system, supporting fielding of the system, supporting airworthiness activity, and supporting testing of the systems.
• Coordinate and collaborate with relevant stakeholders to ensure robust and maintainable configurations are produced.
• Ability to determine and develop approaches to solutions within schedule and cost objectives.
• RF generation source scenario programming.
• Simulation development and test.
• Data analysis.
• Performance analysis.

• Must have a Bachelor’s degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (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 in Engineering; or a Ph.D. AND 10 years of related professional/military experience in Engineering.
• Active In-Scope DoD Secret clearance.
• Ability to obtain and maintain Special Program Access (SAP/PAR) - needed to start.
• Experience working in lab environment.
• Experience working with development documents for lab infrastructure.
• Experience leading a team.
• Experience in RF, ES, and/or EA applications.

• Excellent communication skills for both in-person and written content.
• Experience engaging directly with internal and external technical and programmatic representatives.
• Outstanding problem solving and troubleshooting skills.
• Ability to assimilate new concepts quickly and independently.
• Demonstrated history of personnel development and successful team engagement.
• Interest in and track record of providing successful mentorship.
• Ability to work across multiple geographically separated campuses.
• Familiarity with RF sensing modalities.
• Ability to communicate effectively across multiple IPTs.

Primary Level Salary Range: $ - $. The above salary range represents a general guideline;
Northrop Grumman considers a number of factors when determining base salary offers such as the scope and responsibilities of the position and the candidate's experience, education, skills and current market conditions. Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay. Annual bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions as well as allow employees to share in company results.

Employees in Vice President or Director positions may be eligible for Long Term Incentives. Northrop Grumman provides a variety of benefits including health insurance, life and disability insurance, savings plan, company paid holidays and paid time off for vacation and/or personal business.

The application period for the job is estimated to be 20 days from the job posting date. This timeline may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates. 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 the Northrop Grumman EEO page. U.S. Citizenship is required for all positions with a government clearance and certain other restricted positions.