Principal / Sr. Principal EMI / EMC Electrical Design Engineer

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Northrop Grumman Mission Systems is a trusted provider of mission-enabling solutions for global security.  Our Engineering and Sciences (E&S) organization pushes the boundaries of innovation, redefines engineering capabilities, and drives advances in various sciences. Our team is chartered with providing the skills, innovative technologies to develop, design, produce and sustain optimized product lines across the sector while providing a decisive advantage to the warfighter.  Come be a part of our mission!

We are looking for you to join our team as an EMI / EMC Electrical Design Engineer based out of Woodland Hills, CA. As an Electrical Design Engineer at Northrop Grumman you will have a challenging and rewarding opportunity to be a part of our Enterprise-wide digital transformation. Through the use of Model-based Engineering, DevSecOps and Agile practices we continue to evolve how we deliver critical national defense products and capabilities for the warfighter.  Our success is grounded in our ability to embrace change, move quickly and continuously drive innovation.  The successful candidate will be collaborative, open, transparent, and team-oriented with a focus on team empowerment & shared responsibility, flexibility, continuous learning, and a culture of automation.

What You’ll get to Do:

• Responsible for EMC/EMI design requirement for circuits, cables and subsystems.
• Design tasks include system level requirements analysis, sub-system/CCA/LRU level requirements development, conceptual design, preliminary design, and detailed design through Qualification and transition to production.
• Analysis tasks include detailed circuit/cable/chassis modeling, simulation and analysis to verify electrical and mechanical design against the applicable EMC/EMI/ESD/Lightning requirements.
• Participating in design reviews, customer TIM, test readiness reviews, and other program reviews
• Analyzing and interpreting circuit schematics, PCB layouts, engineering drawings, bills of material, cable harnesses, wiring schematics, interface diagrams, layout drawings, and mechanical drawings
• Performing data reduction of complex electromagnetic and radio frequency (RF) analyses
• Evaluating the EMC/EMI performance of electrical and electronic systems.
• Collaborate with Systems, EE and ME engineering to develop and implement hardware design, improvements and solutions to comply with the applicable EMC/EMI/ESD requirements.
• Support program meetings in developing root cause and corrective actions
• Prepare EMI Test Plan and EMC Control Plan/Procedure.
• Interface with Test Engineer, Design engineers, Systems engineers, Program management and Program support teams
• Support EMC/EMI testing in a laboratory setting using and understanding the variety of EMI, RF, and electronics test equipment typically used in these types of tests.
• Support and work with Test Engineers through troubleshoot issues during EMC Engineering and/or Qualification Testing
• Investigating EMC/EMI test discrepancies and anomalies, and performing failure investigations
• Troubleshoot EMC/EMII issues from circuit card to LRU level, providing practical, workable solutions.

This requisition may be filled at a higher grade based on qualifications listed below

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This requisition may be filled at either a Principal Level or a Sr. Principal Level. 

Basic Qualifications for a Principal EMI / EMC Electrical Engineer are:

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering with 5 years of relevant experience; Master's degree in Electrical Engineering with 3 years of relevant experience, or a PhD.
• Knowledge of EMC/EMI Systems, EMC Design and Electromagnetic Theory.  Familiarity with Antenna and RF Design is a plus.
• Knowledge of performing EMI/EMC tests such as conducted susceptibility (CS), conducted emissions (CE), radiated susceptibility (RS), and radiated emissions (RE)
• Previous work experience with MIL-STD-461, MIL-STD- 464, DO-160 or similar standards.
• Previous experience with SPICE simulation software.  Working experience with Electromagnetic Simulation software, i.e. CST Simulation and Ansys HFSS is a plus
• US Citizenship
• Ability to obtain and maintain Secret Clearance

Basic Qualifications for a Sr. Principal EMI / EMC Electrical Engineer are:                                                                      

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical or Electronics Engineering with 9 years of relevant experience; Master's degree in Electrical Engineering with 7 years of relevant experience, or a PhD with 4 years of experience.
• Knowledge of EMC/EMI Systems, EMC Design and Electromagnetic Theory.  Familiarity with Antenna and RF Design is a plus.
• Previous working experience in performing EMI/EMC tests such as conducted susceptibility (CS), conducted emissions (CE), radiated susceptibility (RS), and radiated emissions (RE)
• Previous work experience with MIL-STD-461, MIL-STD- 464, DO-160 or similar standards.
• Previous experience with SPICE simulation software and Electromagnetic Simulation software, i.e. CST Simulation and Ansys HFSS
• US Citizenship
• Ability to obtain and maintain Secret Clearance

Preferred Qualifications:

• Direct experience in EMC design and test experience
• Cadence CAE.
• EMC Engineering and Qualification test.
• Experience with EMC Simulation software, such as CST Simulation Software or Ansys HFSS
• Working knowledge of Electromagnetic and EE design theory and concepts
• Working knowledge of EE and ME design
• Experience with EMC test software and equipment, such as TILE, scopes, power meter, spectrum analyzer, signal generator

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