Sentinel (GBSD) - Staff Electrical Engineer – Aerospace Vehicle Equipment Lab: Design & Integration (2240-2)

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Northrop Grumman Space Systems is seeking a Staff Electrical Engineer.  This position is located in Roy, UT and supports at the Sentinel Program.

What You’ll Get To Do:

As the Electrical Design & Architecture Lead for the program's Aerospace Vehicle Equipment (AVE) Hardware-in-the-Loop (HWIL) test bed, duties will include but not limited to the following:

• Analyze requirements and coordinate the results with AVE HWIL stakeholders to ensure the lifecycle functions, needs, and objectives of the test bed are captured and understood.

• Evaluate and translate the user needs into testable functional, performance, and interface System Requirements and verification activities.

• Define the functional architecture by decomposing and allocating system-level requirements and translating into detailed functional and performance design criteria.

• Synthesize system functional and performance requirements into the physical architecture.

• Examine Electronic Ground Support Equipment (EGSE) designs and allocate requirements based on existing equipment capabilities, identify modifications that close gaps in HWIL capability needs, and identify equipment limitations that put HWIL test objectives at risk.

• Perform Trade Studies for Make/Buy decisions

• Design electrical cable harnesses that meet interface requirements.

• Oversee the overall HWIL grounding plan.

• Release drawings for fabrication

• Lead the team in the preparation of formal design reviews, including Critical Design Review, that accurately represents the final HWIL Design Package, and all supporting documentation that are necessary prior to entering the fabrication process.

• Coordinate design progress with stakeholders throughout the HWIL lifecycle. 

• Ensure the creation of technical data packages for the HWIL test bed including the test bed concept of operations, interfaces, functional block diagrams, layouts, performance specifications, safety considerations, and security considerations.

• Help to develop, plan, and execute qualification and acceptance test plans, support design and test audits and reviews.

• Support program meetings, provide project status, and interface with a multi-discipline team.

• Mentor junior electrical design engineers on the team.

As a full-time employee of Northrop Grumman Space Systems, you are eligible for our robust benefits package including:
- Medical, Dental & Vision coverage
- 401k
- Educational Assistance
- Life Insurance
- Employee Assistance Programs & Work/Life Solutions
- Paid Time Off
- Health & Wellness Resources
- Employee Discounts

This positions standard work schedule is a 9/80. The 9/80 schedule allows employees who work a nine-hour day Monday through Thursday to take every other Friday off.

This role may offer a competitive relocation assistance package.

Job Qualifications:

You’ll Bring These Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Math (STEM) with 14 years’ experience; 12 years’ experience with a Master’s degree; or 9 years’ experience with a PhD

• Active DoD Secret clearance with a reinvestigation date occurring in the last 6 years.

• Must be a U.S. Citizen and be able to obtain Special Program Access (SAP).

• Experience in electrical troubleshooting fundamentals

• Experience with fundamental electrical Lab Test Equipment (Scope, DMM, PNA, etc…)

• Electrical CAD Design Experience

• Experience with Electrical Harnessing, Grounding, and/or Hardware Integration

• Experience with serial and/or analog communications

These Qualifications Would be Nice to Have:

• Experience with Electrical Design for Aerospace Applications

• Apply advanced technical principles, theories, and concepts. Contributes to the development of new principles and concepts.

• Siemens Mentor Capital for Electrical CAD Design Experience

• Experience using Siemens Teamcenter Unified TcU for CAD Model and Product Data Management

• Experience collaborating with Systems and Modeling and Simulation Engineering

• Scripting experience (e.g. Python)

• System Modeling Tool Experience (e.g. Simulink/LabView)

• Familiarity with Atlassian Products including Jira and Confluence

• Familiarity with Mechanical design tools

• Experience Establishing and Managing a Drawing Tree    

• Working Knowledge of Systems Engineering Principles            

• Familiarity with the Northrop Grumman Test & Evaluation (T&E) Design Manual and other T&E Standards

• Top Secret Clearance

• Technical leadership experience and who has experience with hardware-in-the-loop (HWIL) integration and testing environment.

• Knowledge of electrical engineering in the areas of digital, analog, circuit designs, and electronic components.

• Technical expertise and confidence to operate with only limited technical oversight.

• Capable of using lab equipment to troubleshoot hardware/software failures in support of HWIL integration and testing.

• Possess excellent written and verbal communication skills.

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