Electrical Engineer

Staff Electrical Engineer

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 Defense Systems is seeking a Staff Electrical Engineer. This position is located in Huntsville, AL with an alternat location of Roy, UT supporting the Sentinel program.

What You'll Get To Do:

Chosen Candidate will join the Sentinel Systems Engineering, Integration, & Test (SEIT) Business Unit's System Integration & Sustainment (SIS) Operating Unit and contribute to the Weapon System Integration (WSI) Electrical Design Integration (EDI) Team. This role will support as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for Weapon System Electrical Design Integration Team, who will be responsible for integrating all segment and lower-level team's designs such that fundamental electrical engineering principles are being exercised appropriately throughout the design lifecycle in a consistent manner.

Candidates must be able to understand the intent of Weapon System design at the highest levels and drive engineering processes & analyses into specific product team designs to prove successful design integration and analyze for potential gaps. The successful candidate will clearly demonstrate strong leadership and foundational systems engineering skills to drive process and technical gap resolution of interface and requirement design solutions to achieve program and contract objectives.

Demonstrated ability to foster diverse and inclusive teams with high levels of engagement, including mentoring and coaching, are a must. Excellent verbal and written communication skills are required, and the ideal candidate will have demonstrated success in collaborating and leading Engineering teams.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Develop and implement modeling solutions, conduct trade studies and evaluation of system and subsystem performance
• Frequently collaborate with technical leadership on system requirements generation and associated flow down, subsystem design/analysis, and subsystem performance verification including lab and flight testing
• Assists with the planning, coordination, and analysis supporting system and subsystem development, integration, test, production, and support flight test operations
• Attend internal program, customer and/or supplier technical exchange meetings and/or formal program milestone reviews to provide and/or obtain progress status updates
• Perform the test design process along with the design, analysis and fabrication of specialty test equipment required for environmental testing and handling
• Collaborate with other IPTs to define test objectives and requirements for test activities in the system integration labs
• Performs analyses to evaluate all levels of the system to ensure a cohesive electrical-system solution throughout the development lifecycle (concept, design, fabrication, test, installation, operation, maintenance, and disposal)
• Manages the internal & external electrical interfaces (such as data, power, RF) and develops the corresponding system-level interconnect/block diagrams, grounding diagrams, electrical schematics and global connectivity list for the weapon system
• Manages the hardware command and telemetry implementation (e.g. develop and coordinate calibration and conversion curves for analog telemetry in coordination subsystem engineers, verify electrical/software implementation)
• Verify electrical connectivity implementation (e.g. verify electrical harness implementation, safety-critical circuit segregation, support peer-reviews)
• Develops and evaluates electrical system architecture alternatives in concert with the broader systems engineering effort to select an electrical-system architecture that meets the customer's needs. Drive open design to completion and solve design issues (e.g. propose solutions, support mass reduction initiatives)
• Performs electrically focused requirement analysis and decomposition as part of the systems engineering translation of customer requirements into hardware and software specifications
• Performs analyses to evaluate all levels of the system to ensure a cohesive electrical-system solution throughout the development lifecycle (concept, design, fabrication, test, installation, operation, maintenance, and disposal)
• Review suppliers "as-planned", "as-designed", and "as-built"…