Staff Engineer Electrical

Description

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 Aeronautics Systems has an opening for a Staff Electrical Engineer within the System Integration Lab (SIL). The ideal candidate will be detail oriented and have the ability to focus on first time quality, engineering rigor, and test methodology. This position will be on site and located in Palmdale, CA
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As the Staff Electrical Engineer, you will be responsible for leading and supporting electrical engineering activities within the Lab Test team, ensuring electrical performance, power integrity, and safe operation of test environments.

Key Responsibilities may include, but are not limited to:

• Develop electrical wiring designs of a functional system including the selection of aircraft-type conductors and electro-mechanical components such as connectors, relays, switches, circuit breakers, and terminal junction systems.
• Support design requirements for electrical power generation, conversion and distribution systems, and circuit protective requirements for aerospace vehicle systems including Electrical Loads Analysis, test procedures, power architecture, reports, analyses, and other vehicle power related deliverables.
• Responsible for all aspects of system/component design and development including trade studies, layouts, architecture definition, system test & verification, and troubleshooting.
• May participate on a subcontractor management team and will act as the technical point of contact with suppliers for hardware development, qualification, and procurement
• Evaluate vendor documents to ensure specifications and data sheet requirements are met.
• Review documentation such as but not limited to schematics, diagrams, equipment data sheets, hazard area classification drawings, and electrical analysis or studies developed by other engineers and designers.
• Follows documented processes, specifications and procedures that support the design and manufacture of electrical commodities.
• Supports minor design changes and troubleshooting under supervision (e.g., swapping components, rework direction, continuity checks).

• Must have a Bachelor’s Degree in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, or Math) discipline and 12 years of related professional/military experience; OR a Master’s Degree in a STEM discipline and 10 years of related professional/military experience; OR a Ph.D. in a STEM discipline and 8 years of related professional/military experience.
• Must have an active DoD Top Secret (with a background investigation completed within the last 6 years or currently enrolled into Continuous Evaluation)
• Must have the ability to obtain and maintain Special Access Program (SAP) clearance, prior to the commencement of employment, within a reasonable amount of time as determined by the company to meet its business need
• Ability to read and interpret schematics, wiring diagrams, harness drawings, and/or test-stand block diagrams.
• Experience with electrical power systems in engineering/test environments. (e.g. power distribution/validation, system integration, electrical infrastructure, or similar).

• Active Program Access(es)
• Extensive experience developing and executing System level test procedures
• Understanding of Agile Test methodology
• Previous experience with System Level Lab Test Execution, test planning and coordination of events
• Previous experience with 'hot…