Sr Staff Engineer RF Microwave Design

At Northrop Grumman, our employees have incredible opportunities to work on revolutionary systems that impact people's lives around the world today, and for generations to come. Our pioneering and inventive spirit has enabled us to be at the forefront of many technological advancements in our nation's history - from the first flight across the Atlantic Ocean, to stealth bombers, to landing on the moon. We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage and a pioneering spirit to join forces to invent the future, and have fun along the way. Our culture thrives on intellectual curiosity, cognitive diversity and bringing your whole self to work — and we have an insatiable drive to do what others think is impossible. Our employees are not only part of history, they're making history.

The Sr. Staff engineer serves as an expert for a significant technical area within the team. They will demonstrate broad technical expertise including multiple patents/disclosures/relvant technical awards or external publications/presentations or internal presentations for the benefit of fellow employees as well as program-related documents and publications.

The qualified candidate will work with a diverse and talented team of engineers developing innovative and cost-effective systems that support a broad range of products and business areas across the lifecycle of a program.  Applicants should be able to apply advanced technical principles, theories, and concepts while contributing to the development of new principles and concepts.

Responsibilities may include development of antenna architectures, receiver / exciter architectures, requirements generation/flow down; subsystem analysis including hardware from RF to digits, performance modeling, support for performance testing, requirements verification, and more.  Work will be performed under consultative direction toward predetermined long-range goals and objectives.  Assignments are often self-initiated or in the technical advisory role.

Candidates should have the ability to work on unusually complex technical problems and provide solutions which are highly innovative and ingenious. 

Sr. Staff engineer responsibilities also include developing advanced technological ideas and guiding their development into a final product that has a direct impact on the sector.  They will contribute to priority initiatives critical to achievement of business objectives.

In addition, this candidate should have demonstrated technical ability/leadership and expertise in one or more of the following areas:

• Active electronically scanned arrays (AESAs)

• Highly integrated subsystems including antenna hardware

• Reflectors, Reflect Arrays, Digital Beam Forming

• Antenna/RF Performance Analysis

• Computational Electromagnetics, Statistics

• Antenna or Subsystem Control Design

• Antenna Measurements and Data Reduction

• Antenna range integration, test, and system integration

• Subsystem requirements (hardware and software) derivation, flow-down, and configuration

• Familiarity working with embedded real time software and digital systems

• Familiarity with firmware development tool suites including Quartus and Vivado

• Comfortable creating test support applications and tools using MATLAB, python, etc

• Experience with agile software development methodologies including Scrum and Kanban 

• Experience with Atlassian Tool Suite, Git

Basic Qualifications:

• Must have a Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or related discipline with 14 years of experience in the areas described in the job description or 12 years of experience with a Master's Degree and/or 9 years of experience with a PhD

• Sr Staff Engineers should have a demonstrated ability in technical and team leadership overseeing engineers with experience at least at the Staff level. Mentor ship responsibilities are part of the position.

• Ability to Obtain and Maintain and Active Secret Clearance.

Preferred Qualifications:

• TS/SCI

• Experience using MATLAB

Salary Range: $165,400 USD - $248,000 USD

Employees may be eligible for a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay. Annual bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions as well as allow employees to share in company results. Employees in Vice President or Director positions may be eligible for Long Term Incentives. In addition, Northrop Grumman provides a variety of benefits including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, savings plan, Company paid holidays and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business.

The health and safety of our employees and their families is a top priority. The company encourages employees to remain up-to-date on their COVID-19 vaccinations. U.S. Northrop Grumman employees may be required, in the future, to be vaccinated or have an approved disability/medical or religious accommodation, pursuant to future court decisions and/or government action on the currently stayed federal contractor vaccine mandate under Executive Order 14042 https://www.saferfederalworkforce.gov/contractors/.

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.