Space Staff Electronics Engineer (Active Secret Clearance Required)

Embark on a career putting innovative, reliable, and agile products and ideas into orbit, and beyond. Northrop Grumman has opportunities waiting for you that play a vital role in human space exploration, national defense, and scientific discovery, supporting multiple programs across the universe. With us, you’ll discover a culture of curiosity and collaboration that will have you Defining Possible from the day you start. Our space work connects and protects millions of people on earth every day, now and for the future. Explore your future and launch your career today.

The Payload and Ground Systems organization within the Northrop Grumman Space Systems pushes the boundaries of innovation, redefines engineering capabilities, and drives advances in various sciences. Our team is chartered with providing the skills, innovative technologies to develop, design, produce and sustain optimized product lines across the sector while providing a decisive advantage to the warfighter. Come be a part of our mission.

Payload and Ground Systems Division - Remote Sensing Programs (PGS RSP) is a strategic partner specializing in delivering intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance solutions for classified and unclassified missions in space.  Headquartered in Linthicum, Maryland, PGS RSP has offices, manufacturing, and world-class assembly, integration, and test facilities.  We do it all here, on-site, from sensors to payloads to full up spacecraft, supporting Class A to Class D missions.  Our key capabilities include Active RF, Passive RF, and Electro-Optical payloads, space solar power, cross domain missions, and space resilience payloads & solutions.

We have an opening for an experienced Staff Electronics Engineer to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals in the Space Systems organization. This position is in Baltimore, MD. 

This requisition is for a Test Set Design Engineer, who will be responsible for the design and fabrication of the Electrical Ground Support Equipment (EGSE) suite of test sets. The EGSE test sets are used to checkout, integrate, and operate Flight hardware during ground test. These test sets provide power, control, telemetry, safety interlocking and cooling. This candidate will be part of a small EGSE Design Team supporting several programs.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Panel & cable design, electrical interconnects & schematics, developing acceptance criteria & certification procedures, and hardware checkout/troubleshooting.

• Root cause determination, problem resolution and documentation is expected.

• Interface with subsystem test engineers, test operators, technicians, systems administrators, security team, and vendors to provide support for various test set tasks as required.

• Full design cycle of EGSE, from conception through design to fabrication and integration/test.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in STEM discipline with 14+ years of related experience, OR Master's degree in STEM discipline with 12+ years of related experience, OR PhD with 9+ years of experience

• Proficient in hardware design to include panel and/or cable design, schematic layouts, etc.

• Minimum of 7 years’ experience in hardware design

• Active Secret security clearance is required in order to be considered.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Active TS /SCI clearance

• Minimum of 9 years’ experience in hardware design

• Proficient with integrated (analog, power, digital) hardware design

• Proficient with lab test equipment, such as DMMs, O-Scopes, or related

• Proficient with electrical design tools (e.g., Zuken, AutoCAD, PSpice)

• Proficient with hands-on troubleshooting with electrical hardware

• Proficient in Test Automation Software (LabView, TCL, MatLab)

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