Senior Principal Electrical Engineer - TS/SCI

AOA Xinetics (AOX), a wholly owned Northrop Grumman Space Systems, Payload and Ground Systems Division Business Unit, is a leading supplier of complex electro-optic and photonic systems and subsystems that control and manipulate light waves for a variety of applications.  Our talented team of engineers, managers and technologists conceive, design, develop and manufacture high precision products in an environment that requires significant collaboration and teamwork among multiple engineering disciplines. We are seeking a Senior Principal Electrical Engineer to support our Special Programs Team in East Hartford, CT.

Learn more about AOX at https://www.northropgrumman.com/who-we-are/aoa-xinetics   

Overview

The Senior Principal Electrical Engineer will perform as a member of an interdisciplinary team of engineers and scientists on different project assignments, as well as a technical lead and/or primary technical resource on project teams and hardware engineering activities.  The successful candidate should have proven abilities in electronic hardware product design, design support to proposal development, product test definition, and requirement specifications development efforts. The ideal candidate will have experience as an electrical functional lead and leading a design team of electrical engineers.

Role and Responsibilities:

• Collaborating with peers and other engineering disciplines in architecting, planning, designing and prototyping complex electromechanical systems

• Design electronic circuit boards for use in electro-mechanical systems for commercial, industrial, defense/government and other industries

• Complete tasks according to schedule, budget, cost, and design objectives                

• Develop technical solutions to complex problems which require the regular use of ingenuity and creativity

• Perform work with minimal direction while exercising considerable latitude in determining technical objectives of assignment

Basic Requirements:

• Bachelors of Science degree in Electrical Engineering

• 10+ years of experience in analog, digital, and mixed electronic system design, or 8+ years with a Masters in Electrical Engineering

• Full lifecycle design experience of multilayer SMT printed circuit boards (PCBs)

• Application experience that includes phase lock loops, signal conditioning, pulse width modulation, control and feedback systems, distributed hardware systems, etc.

• Embedded design experience incorporating Xilinx FPGAs and VHDL

• Electronic circuit design simulation experience

• Strong verbal and written communication and presentation skills

• Excellent organization and communications skills

• US Citizenship is a bona fide requirement

• Active Top Secret clearance

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Preferred Qualifications:

• Analog design experience in analog low noise, analog filters, shielding, and/or EMI

• Digital hardware design and simulation experience using VHDL

• Schematic capture using Mentor Graphics DxDesigner

• Experience developing embedded firmware using C

• Design experience using the STM32 ARM Cortex microcontrollers

• Experience developing motor control circuits for stepper and BLDC motors

• Experience using Siemens/Mentor Graphics DxDesigner

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