Electronics Engineer - Platform Cosite Lead

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE:
Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START:
Yes

CLEARANCE TYPE:
Secret

TRAVEL:
Yes, 10% of the Time

Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems has an opening for a Staff Electronics Engineer – Platform Cosite Lead to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals. This position will be located in Melbourne, FL and will be based within our office spaces to support the program and business needs. Operating on our 9/80 schedule means you will get every other Friday off. This position has NO Hybrid or Remote work available.

The selected engineer will perform as a member of an interdisciplinary team in a key effort to develop novel and innovative solutions to advanced technical problems. 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.

Responsibilities:

• 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 performance and functional analyses
• Conducting detailed trade studies
• Performing risk analysis and developing mitigation plans and tracking to closure
• Collaborate with engineers and program stakeholders
• Developing and maintaining 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
• Identifying/planning/executing informal and formal testing of subsystem requirements in lab, troubleshooting hardware in the lab
• Performing 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

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

• Bachelor’s degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) discipline from an accredited university with 12 years of related professional/military experience in Engineering; OR a Master’s degree in a STEM discipline from an accredited university with 10 years of related professional/military experience in Engineering; or a Ph.D. with 8 years of related professional/military experience in Engineering.
• 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
• Knowledge of system engineering design methods, including requirements analysis and flow‑down, specification derivation and interface control documentation
• Your ability to transfer and maintain the 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

• 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…