Sr. Principal Electronic Warfare (EW) Engineer

This position is currently contingent on program funding. Start dates are determined after funding confirmation.

Northrop Grumman’s Aeronautics Systems sector is seeking a Sr. Principal Electronic Warfare (EW) Engineer to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals in defining the future.  This position will be located in Melbourne, FL.

The selected engineer will perform as a member of an interdisciplinary team on a key effort to develop novel and innovative solutions to advanced technical problems. The successful engineer will contribute to the overall development of Electronic Warfare subsystems, including developing functional architectures, analyzing performance, developing and managing requirements and interfaces, and verifying/validating all allocated requirements, You will design, develop, build, and test EW systems in conjunction with key suppliers. 

The EW engineer in this role will be responsible for one or more of the following: 

• Lead and/or support development and integration of electronic warfare subsystems and components to meet platform mission objectives 

• Requirements development, analysis, maturation and implementation translating customer requirements into hardware and software specifications 

• Performing functional and performance analyses 

• Conducting detailed trade studies,  

• Performing risk analysis and developing mitigation plans and tracking to closure 

• Collaborate with engineers and program stakeholders  

• Technical management of program strategic partners and suppliers, including development, acquisition, acceptance, qualification, system integration and test support 

• Identifying/planning/executing informal and formal testing of subsystem requirements in lab, troubleshooting hardware in the lab 

• Performing aircraft ground and flight test on subsystems to validate and verify subsystem requirement and sell-off 

• Lead and/or support technical discussions with the customer and having daily interaction with management, external personnel, customers, and various sub teams 

A successful EW Engineer has good leadership skills and understands the scope of the work and the impact of the work on other teams, consistently brings up concerns, issues and risks to program and technical leadership and holds the team to a high level of technical rigor. 

Basic Qualifications:

Sr. Principal Electronic Warfare (EW) Engineer (T04):

• Must have a Bachelor’s degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) discipline from an accredited university AND 9 years of related professional/military experience in Engineering; OR a Master’s degree in a STEM discipline from an accredited university AND 7 years of related professional/military experience in Engineering; or a Ph.D. AND 4 years of related professional/military experience in Engineering.

• Must have an active DoD Secret clearance that is in-scope (granted or renewed within the last 6 years). Needed to start.

• Ability to obtain and maintain Special Program Access (PAR/SAP). Needed to start.

• Knowledge of electromagnetics in the RF spectrum (VHF through Ka bands) 

• Experience designing, developing, integrating, and/or testing RF equipment for airborne platforms. 

• Experience in decomposing, deriving, allocating and tracing requirements from system to component level 

Preferred Qualifications:

• Familiarity with NG Systems

• Experience designing, developing, integrating, and/or testing EW or Radar subsystems for airborne platforms. 

• Experience with RF antenna and component design and performance analysis  

• Experience in model-based systems engineering using Cameo or similar SysML tools 

• Experience with generating and managing requirements in DOORs 

• Experience in performance analysis using MATLAB and Excel or similar tools 

• Familiarity with Atlassian collaboration tool set (Jira and Confluence) 

• Experience in supplier/subcontract management 

• Experience with developing supplier documentation, performance-based specifications, and statements of work 

• Experience building supplier evaluation criteria and experience in conducting technical evaluations, documenting results and selection 

• Ability to review documents from the supplier’s development effort and support supplier technical interchange meetings and design review 

• Active DoD Top Secret Clearance 

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.