Principal / Senior Principal EW/ RF Systems Engineer

Northrop Grumman Mission Systems is seeking Principal / Senior. Principal Electronic Warfare Systems Engineers to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals at our Linthicum/Baltimore, MD campus. 

Performs technical planning, system integration, verification and validation, cost and risk, and supportability and effectiveness analyses for total systems.

Northrop Grumman Mission Systems is seeking a Principal / Senior. Principal Electronic Warfare Systems Engineer to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals at our Linthicum/Baltimore, MD campus. 

As part of Northrop Grumman's Electronic Warfare Systems Engineering organization, the qualified candidate will have the opportunity to develop solutions for our customer’s most difficult technical challenges. This team is responsible for supporting the development of highly adaptive, software defined, hardware enabled systems across a variety of domains. Candidates must be self-motivated systems thinkers that can work as part of a multidisciplinary engineering team. 

This position will allow for participation throughout the systems engineering process.  Typical Electronic Warfare Systems Engineers work on multiple tasks including, but not limited to:

• System concept development

• Candidate technology trade studies

• Requirements development and derivation

• Algorithm development

• Performance analysis

• Data Analysis

• Support of firmware, software and hardware integration and test

Continue to develop your technical career with a leader in next generation sensor technology. Northrop Grumman provides the opportunity to continue your education, work side-by-side with experts in the industry, and change the future of protecting warfighters across the globe.

Basic Qualifications for a Principal Systems Engineer

• Active or ability to obtain a DoD Secret security clearance prior to starting

• Ability to obtain SAP prior to starting

• Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics, Mathematics or other Engineering with 5 years of related experience, 3 years related experience with a Master’s Degree,

• Experience with MATLAB or equivalent software tools

• Previous experience with radar waveforms, Electronic Support (ES), and/or Electronic Attack (EA)

Basic Qualifications for a Senior Principal Systems Engineer

• Active or ability to obtain a DoD Secret security clearance prior to starting

• Ability to obtain SAP prior to starting

• Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics, Mathematics or other Engineering with 9 years of related experience, 7 years related experience with a Master’s Degree, 5 years with a PhD

• Experience with MATLAB or equivalent software tools

• Previous experience with radar waveforms, Electronic Support (ES), and/or Electronic Attack (EA)

Preferred Qualifications:

• DoD Top Secret Clearance

• Experience with digital signal processing

As a full-time employee of Northrop Grumman Mission 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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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 position is contingent upon clearance

This position description does not represent a current opening but may be used to identify candidates with skills and experience for positions within Northrop Grumman that frequently become available. Candidates who express an interest may be considered for future positions at Northrop Grumman

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