Sr. Principal RF Microwave Design Engineer

Northrop Grumman Missions Systems is seeking experienced engineers in the following areas:

Antennas, Electromagnetics, Computational Electromagnetics, RF/Microwave design, Digital beam-forming, Hardware/Subsystem Integration and Test, and Antenna Control Design.

The qualified candidate will work with a diverse and talented team of engineers developing innovative and cost-effective systems that support a broad range of products and business areas across the lifecycle of a program.  Applicants should possess the ability to communicate effectively and clearly present technical approaches and findings.

Responsibilities may include development of antenna architectures, receiver / exciter architectures, requirements generation/flow down; subsystem analysis including hardware from RF to digits, performance modeling, support for performance testing, requirements verification, and more.  Work is performed without appreciable direction and exercising considerable latitude in determining technical objectives of assignments.

Experienced applicants will have at least a Bachelor’s Degree in Science or other related technical degree and have experience designing, developing and/or testing radio frequency (RF) and/or microwave antenna systems and/or related RF hardware.  Candidates would have the ability to develop technical solutions to complex problems which require the regular use of ingenuity and creativity. 

In addition, this candidate should have demonstrated technical ability/leadership and expertise in one or more of the following areas:

• Active electronically scanned arrays (AESAs)
• Highly integrated subsystems including antenna hardware
• Reflectors, Reflect Arrays, Digital Beam Forming
• Antenna/RF Performance Analysis
• Computational Electromagnetics, Statistics
• Antenna or Subsystem Control Design
• Antenna Measurements and Data Reduction
• Antenna range integration, test, and system integration
• Subsystem requirements (hardware and software) derivation, flow-down, and configuration
• Familiarity working with embedded real time software and digital systems
• Familiarity with firmware development tool suites including Quartus and Vivado
• Comfortable creating test support applications and tools using MATLAB, python, etc
• Experience with agile software development methodologies including Scrum and Kanban 
• Experience with Atlassian Tool Suite, Git

The Engineering RF Microwave Design positions require the candidates to have the ability to obtain and maintain at least a Secret Clearance per business requirements. An active Secret or higher clearance is a plus!

Basic Qualifications:

• Must have a Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or related discipline with 9 years of experience in the areas described in the job description or 7 years of experience with a Master's Degree and/or 4 years of experience with a Ph. D.
• Sr. Principal Engineers should have a demonstrated ability in technical and team leadership overseeing engineers with experience at least at the Principal level.
• Ability to Obtain and Maintain and Active Secret Clearance.

Preferred Qualifications:

• TS/SCI
• Experience using MATLAB

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