RF​/Analog Electrical Engineer Security Clearance

Position: RF/Analog Electrical Engineer with Security Clearance
The Principal RF/Sr. Principal RF role involves full life-cycle product development from system concept and requirements through design, production, verification, and field support while working in integrated product teams spanning Engineering, Manufacturing, and Program Management. RF/Analog subsystem and circuit card designs utilize the latest MMIC and discrete device technologies from all major vendors including internal Northrop Grumman designed devices, Electro-Optical (EO) circuitry, controls, detectors and data converters.

As an RF/Analog Electrical Engineer, you will join our diverse team and be responsible for research, design, development of signal conversion and analog/mixed signal products. Your expertise in RF, mixed signal, and/or Electro-Optical component design and analysis, modeling and simulation, and circuit level design and test are desired for this position. This position will be full-time and on-site at our Rolling Meadows, IL.

Location This position can be filled at either the Principal or Sr. Principal level:
Basic Qualifications for Principal RF Engineer:

- Bachelors’ degree in STEM field with a minimum 5+ years of electronics design experience or MS degree in STEM field with 3+ years of electronics design experience.
· RF/Analog circuit design experience, including schematic capture through test and integration
· Hands-on prototyping and debug experience testing complex RF subsystems, such as complex circuit card development involving amplifiers, mixers, control systems, ADCs, DACs, and/or phase lock loops
· Demonstrated ability to translate system performance and operational specifications into hardware requirements, design, and test specifications
· Familiarity with documentation, revision control and review systems like DOORS, Clear Case, and Clear Quest
· US Citizens​hip
· Must have Interim Secret clearance prior to starting and once started, must have the ability to obtain and maintain a Secret security clearance.​ Basic Qualifications for Sr. Principal RF Engineer:
· Bachelors’ degree in STEM field with a minimum 8 years of electronics design experience or MS degree in STEM field with 6 years of electronics design experience.
· RF/Analog circuit design experience, including schematic capture through test and integration
· Hands-on prototyping and debug experience testing complex RF subsystems, such as complex circuit card development involving amplifiers, mixers, control systems, ADCs, DACs, and/or phase lock loops
· Demonstrated ability to translate system performance and operational specifications into hardware requirements, design, and test specifications
· Familiarity with documentation, revision control and review systems like DOORS, Clear Case, and Clear Quest
· US Citizenship
· Must have Interim Secret clearance prior to starting and once started, must have the ability to obtain and maintain a Secret security clearance.​

Preferred Qualifications:

· An advanced degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering
· Minimum 7 years of RF and/or mixed signal electronics design experience
· Working knowledge of Electronic Warfare systems
· Recent circuit card design experience utilizing circuit-related tools including Cadence Concept, Allegro, and/or Mentor DxDesigner, Expedition
· Experience with Advanced Design System (ADS) and Mat Lab modeling tools
· Experience with SPICE modeling tools
· Proven skills to include: communicating with all levels of an organization internally and externally, adaptable, creative, collaborative and comfortable working independently and enjoy solving difficult problems
· Current Secret or Top-Secret security clearance