Principal Manufacturing Test Engineer; RF Systems

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE:
No relocation assistance available

CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START:
No

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.

Northrop Grumman Mission Systems is a trusted provider of mission-enabling solutions for global security. We have a wide portfolio of secure, affordable, integrated, and multi-domain systems and technologies. Our differentiated battle management and cyber solutions deliver timely, mission-enabling information and provide superior situational awareness and understanding to protect the U.S. and its global allies.

Principal Engineer, Electronics (HW + SW) – Manufacturing Test Engineering (RF Systems) located on-site in Rolling Meadows, IL
, with proven embedded software knowledge alongside hardware design and/or troubleshooting experience.

As a Principal engineer with test hardware and embedded software knowledge, this individual will be responsible for prime (sell off) hardware troubleshooting, test equipment hardware & test software troubleshooting, test fixtures and/or equipment design, and software development & integration of automated test scripts. This position will support aerial, military-grade, or space-grade Electronic Warfare Systems and Subsystems.

• The Manufacturing Engineers are expected to be problem solvers with the ability to provide results that are innovative and often achieved through collaboration across functional groups.
• We seek individuals with proven excellence in the following 6 core competencies:
• Takes high levels of Self-accountability and Ownership
• Acts with Speed
• Responds to Challenges with Resilience
• Leads with Courage
• Sets vision for the assigned products
• Builds a High Performing Team

Building a strong professional relationship with other Manufacturing disciplines (Process Engineering, Project Management, Shop Operations, Mission Assurance), strong decision-making skills and a high-level ethical standard is essential.

• Equipment design – hardware:
  Investigate, design test equipment or fixture, and provide solutions to meet new or modified testing requirements.
• Software design – coding & integration/validation:
  Investigate, develop code, and integrate new or modified software to meet acceptance testing and/or environmental screening requirements.
• Test procedure development/Maintenance:
  Generate and maintain/revise Manufacturing Acceptance testing procedures, Environmental Screening procedures, hardware drawings of test equipment and fixtures.
• Support to Production:
  Investigate and identify failure modes due to failures identified during MTP, Environmental Screening or Acceptance Testing.
  • This investigation may require troubleshooting of sell off hardware, test equipment and/or fixture troubleshooting, or stepping into automated test equipment code.
  • Leading collaborative troubleshooting with multi-disciplinary teams may prove to be vital in troubleshooting complex issues and to meet contractual acceptance testing commitments.
• Testability reviews:
  Collaborate with design engineering to achieve testability in new and updated product design.
• Communication:
  Ability to interface/communicate with multiple levels of leadership, clients, and vendors.
• Continuous improvement:
  Review of quality metrics to identify and implement continuous improvement initiatives to reduce cost, cycle time, defects per unit.

This position…