Principal Electronic Warfare (EW) Engineer /Sr. Principal Electronic Warfare (EW) Engineer

Northrop Grumman Aeronautic Systems has an opening for a Principal Electronic Warfare (EW) Engineer /Sr. Principal Electronic Warfare (EW) Engineer join our team of qualified, diverse individuals. This position will be primarily located in Palmdale, CA.

**This position may be filled by either a Principal Electronic Warfare (EW) Engineer level or a Sr. Principal Electronic Warfare (EW) Engineer level based on the qualifications listed.

Essential Functions:

The EW Operations & Sustainment Engineer will be a high-energy individual who will be expected to keep track of deployed assets, collect asset-related status reports from FOLs and MOBs to support statistical and anomaly reporting, coordinate with Integrated Logistics Support (ILS) team as the Point of Contact (POC) for the Integrated Product Team (IPT), participate in Material Improvement Process Review Board meetings and provide feedback and responses to action items as necessary, monitor Line Replaceable Units (LRU) returned from the field and coordinate their repair at the supplier facility, and communicate successfully across engineering, operations, and logistics teams in order to implement requirements.

• Meeting support responsibilities include readiness reviews, site specific training, test briefs and debriefs, security and coordination with test directors.  Post-test support responsibilities include review, analysis and defect investigation of test logs, and validation of test data files, hardware and software troubleshooting on the platform and defect duplication and analysis in a lab.  Pre-test support responsibilities include support and checkout of the system, including but not limited to test planning activities to ensure that test objectives are achieved and results remain within operational specifications of the subsystem.

• Responsibilities will also include coordination of anomalies with NG engineering and supplier Subject Matter Experts. This includes review of service bulletins, training for new software upgrades, review of new NG and supplier generated Discrepancy Reports and tracking existing Discrepancy Reports, as new analyses become available.

The successful candidate will coordinate with customers and vendors to ensure that required assets are in place and functional in order to effectively support operations and that any failed assets are returned to the supplier in a timely manner for repair.  They must also be capable of responding to the customer with guidance related to operation and maintenance of assets. The successful candidate will also support operator training, QA activities, DMS issues and obsolescence management, logistics, return material authorization activities, logging, review and reporting of system maintenance metrics, analysis and confirmation of mean time between failures, support for correction of defects and lab sustainment.

Basic Qualifications:

For - Principal Electronic Warfare (EW) Engineer (T03):

• Bachelor of Science Degree in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Math) related field with 5 or more years of engineering experience or MS with 3 years or more year of engineering experience or Ph.D. with 2 or more years of engineering experience

• Active, in-scope Top Secret clearance

• Ability to obtain and maintain Special Program Access (PAR)

• Must have experience working with EW airborne payload systems.

Basic Qualifications:

For - Sr. Principal Electronic Warfare (EW) Engineer (T04):

• Bachelor of Science Degree in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Math) related field with 9 or more years of engineering experience or MS with 7 years or more year of engineering experience or Ph.D. with 5 or more years of engineering experience

• Active, in-scope Top Secret clearance

• Ability to obtain and maintain Special Program Access (PAR)

• Must have experience working with EW airborne payload systems.

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Practical experience working with other airborne payload systems in addition to EW systems.

• Ability to comprehend and analyze complex problems, develop solutions, and make decisions that impact the organization’s credibility, operations and services.

• Documented ability to interpret numerical data for reporting purposes and prepare and analyze data and figures.

• Demonstrated ability to collaborate in a team environment.

• Supplier Management Experience

Northrop Grumman is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class.

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Northrop Grumman is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class. For our complete EEO/AA and Pay Transparency statement, please visit http://www.northropgrumman.com/EEO. U.S. Citizenship is required for most positions.