Principal/Sr Principal RF Engineer (TS/SCI required)

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Northrop Grumman is seeking a Principal RF Engineer to join our team supporting the Metis program.  The position is based at a facility in Aurora, Colorado.

This role designs, develops, integrates, and tests radio frequency (RF) and/or microwave systems architecture, or products.

Job responsibilities will include, but not be limited to, the following:

• Support architecture trades, design analysis, and performance.
• Provide systems engineering support to hardware developments for ground systems utilizing state-of-the-art antenna, RF, and digital technologies.
• Project roles span all phases of product development cycle, from new business acquisition to established programs delivering integrated hardware and software systems.
• Systems engineering activities include system architecture design, trade studies, specification development, requirement definition and allocation, performance analysis, and simulation; system modeling and simulation tool development, and support to hardware design, manufacturing, integration, and testing.

This requisition may be filled at either a level 3 or a level 4, depending on the candidate’s experience as laid out in the basic qualifications detailed below as well as the interview assessment.

Basic Qualifications

Level 3:

• Bachelor’s degree in STEM discipline with 5 years of relevant RF design experience; 3 years with a Master’s in STEM discipline; 0 years with a Ph.D. in STEM discipline
• Must have active/current DoD TS/SCI clearance or higher to be considered.
• Experience with RF and digital hardware design
• Experience with Baseband and digital signal processing
• Experience with Waveform design
• Experience with Signal detection and estimation
• Experience with communication systems and networking

Level 4:

• Bachelor’s degree in STEM discipline with 9 years of relevant RF design experience; 7 years with a Master’s in STEM discipline; 4 years with a Ph.D. in STEM discipline
• Must have active/current DoD TS/SCI clearance or higher to be considered.
• Experience with RF and digital hardware design
• Experience with Baseband and digital signal processing
• Experience with Waveform design
• Experience with Signal detection and estimation
• Experience with communication systems and networking

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with RF budgeting, frequency planning, RF chain analysis and modeling, schematic capture, electromagnetic simulation, signal integrity analysis
• Component selection and/or custom component requirements flow down and trades.
• RF lab equipment such as network analyzers, spectrum analyzers, signal generators, power meters, etc.
• Electronic troubleshooting from component to assembly levels
• Product life cycle support from concept through production support
• Designing for high reliability, mil/aero requirements, and environments
• Software tools: Mentor Xpedition DX Designer, ANSYS HFSS, Keysight ADS, Keysight Genisys, MathWorks MATLAB, Autodesk AutoCAD, and Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, PowerPoint, Project, Word)

This position’s 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.

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

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