Staff Engineer Digital

Northrop Grumman Space Systems sector delivers a decisive advantage to its customers through software-defined, hardware-enabled solutions. The Electrical Design and Analysis (EDA) section in Linthicum, MD enables these hardware solutions by providing architecture, design, test, and verification expertise across a wide variety of electronic sensor products. Our engineers work on complex, leading edge, high reliability electronics supporting different space platforms.

NGSS engineers share a great sense of pride knowing their contributions have a direct effect on the safety and security of the country and its allies. Our culture thrives on intellectual curiosity, cognitive diversity, teamwork, and bringing your whole self to work to accomplish the mission while learning and having fun along the way. Our department is fertile ground for all experience levels to become part of our growing team and contribute to our goals. The department offers opportunities to grow on a technical track both broad and deep as well as explore project leadership or management positions.

EDA is seeking a Staff Digital Design Engineer responsible for the research, design, and development of digital hardware products. Expertise in digital component design and analysis, modeling and simulation, circuit level design, verification and test, and project leadership are desired for this position. Work with engineers in other disciplines to develop these circuits into final products.  Help guide and determine technical direction of programs using advanced technical principles, theories and concepts including the development of new principles and concepts.  Handle complex technical issues and resolve them in new and innovative ways.  

Work will be performed under consultative direction toward predetermined long-range goals and objectives. Assignments are often self-initiated. Candidates should have the ability to work on unusually complex technical problems and provide solutions which are highly innovative and ingenious. This role will support Payload and Ground Systems Division, Remote Sensing Program (RSP) Business Unit out of Linthicum, MD.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, or STEM related discipline with a minimum 12 years of digital electronics design experience or 10 years of digital electronics design experience with a Master's degree in a technical field, or 7 years with a Ph.D.

• Digital circuit card design experience including schematic capture, layout, simulations/analysis as well as test and integration for interfaces such as Spacewire, Ethernet, RS-422, LVDS interfaces, ASICs, FPGAs, etc.

• Prior hands-on prototyping and debug experience testing complex digital subsystems, such as complex circuit card development involving FPGAs, and/or embedded processors, and/or high-speed interfaces.

• Demonstrated ability to translate system performance and operational specifications into hardware requirements, design, and test specifications.

• Proven skills to include team leadership, mentoring others, communicating with all levels of an organization internally and externally, being adaptable, creative, collaborative, and comfortable working independently and enjoys solving difficult problems.

• Signal integrity/Power integrity analysis via Hyperlynx

• US Citizenship required

• Circuit card design experience utilizing Siemen's Xpedition

• No clearance required to start, but must be able to obtain and maintain a Top-Secret Clearance

Preferred Qualifications:

• 20 yrs of relevant experience

• Proficient in SIPI using Keysight ADS

• Top Secret Clearance

• Worst Case Circuit Analysis

• Mixed Signals Design experience

Internal Job Description

Northrop Grumman Space Systems sector delivers a decisive advantage to its customers through software-defined, hardware-enabled solutions. The Electrical Design and Analysis (EDA) section in Linthicum, MD enables these hardware solutions by providing architecture, design, test, and verification expertise across a wide variety of electronic sensor products. Our engineers work on complex, leading edge, high reliability electronics supporting different space platforms.

NGSS engineers share a great sense of pride knowing their contributions have a direct effect on the safety and security of the country and its allies. Our culture thrives on intellectual curiosity, cognitive diversity, teamwork, and bringing your whole self to work to accomplish the mission while learning and having fun along the way. Our department is fertile ground for all experience levels to become part of our growing team and contribute to our goals. The department offers opportunities to grow on a technical track both broad and deep as well as explore project leadership or management positions.

EDA is seeking a Staff Digital Design Engineer responsible for the research, design, and development of digital hardware products. Expertise in digital component design and analysis, modeling and simulation, circuit level design, verification and test, and project leadership are desired for this position. Work with engineers in other disciplines to develop these circuits into final products.  Help guide and determine technical direction of programs using advanced technical principles, theories and concepts including the development of new principles and concepts.  Handle complex technical issues and resolve them in new and innovative ways.  

Work will be performed under consultative direction toward predetermined long-range goals and objectives. Assignments are often self-initiated. Candidates should have the ability to work on unusually complex technical problems and provide solutions which are highly innovative and ingenious. This role will support Payload and Ground Systems Division, Remote Sensing Program (RSP) Business Unit out of Linthicum, MD.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, or STEM related discipline with a minimum 14 years of digital electronics design experience or 12 years of digital electronics design experience with a Master's degree in a technical field, or 9 years with a Ph.D.

• Digital circuit card design experience including schematic capture, layout, simulations/analysis as well as test and integration for interfaces such as Spacewire, Ethernet, RS-422, LVDS interfaces, ASICs, FPGAs, etc.

• Prior hands-on prototyping and debug experience testing complex digital subsystems, such as complex circuit card development involving FPGAs, and/or embedded processors, and/or high-speed interfaces.

• Demonstrated ability to translate system performance and operational specifications into hardware requirements, design, and test specifications.

• Proven skills to include team leadership, mentoring others, communicating with all levels of an organization internally and externally, being adaptable, creative, collaborative, and comfortable working independently and enjoys solving difficult problems.

• Signal integrity/Power integrity analysis via Hyperlynx

• Recent circuit card design experience utilizing Siemen's Xpedition

• US Citizenship required

• No clearance required to start, but must be able to obtain and maintain a Top-Secret Clearance

Preferred Qualifications:

• 20 yrs of relevant experience

• Top Secret Clearance

• Worst Case Circuit Analysis

• Proficient in SIPI using Keysight ADS

• Mixed Signals Design experience

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 all positions with a government clearance and certain other restricted positions.