R&D Navigation Engineer – Woodland Hills, CA

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Northrop Grumman Mission Systems is a trusted provider of mission-enabling solutions for global security.  Our Engineering and Sciences (E&S) organization 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!

We are looking for you to join our team as an R&D Navigation Engineer based out of Woodland Hills, CA. Our success is grounded in our ability to embrace change, move quickly and continuously drive innovation.  The successful candidate will be collaborative, open, transparent, and team-oriented with a focus on team empowerment & shared responsibility, flexibility, continuous learning, and a culture of automation.

What You’ll get to Do:

Candidate would be responsible for all aspects of design for government and internally funded sensor research and development projects. He/she would develop high accuracy and low noise sensor, inertial navigation, and GPS electronics from concept to working, performance-testable hardware, with the efficiency that R&D inherently requires. Typical responsibilities in a typical project design cycle include system architecture and trade studies, analog and digital simulation, VHDL and C coding, schematic capture and PCB layout, oversight of board fab and assembly, and lab testing and optimization. The candidate will have access to the deep technical expertise around them, but will be responsible for implementing the design down to the very details of the analog design, board layout, and firmware/logicware. Job duties are more project oriented, and less divided by skillset, so the candidate needs to be proficient at switching hats depending on the stage of the design.

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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This requisition may be filled at a higher grade based on qualifications listed below.

This requisition may be filled at either the Principal or Sr. Principal Level. 

Basic Qualifications for a Principal R&D Navigation Engineer are:

• 5+ years of experience with a Bachelors of Science in a STEM discipline, 3+ years of experience with Masters; 0 Years with a PhD
• US Citizenship is required in order to obtain and maintain security clearance
• Engineering experience or academic background in the navigation/FPNT domain, specifically in one or more of the following areas:
  • NAVWAR Algorithms
  • Timing and Distributed Clock Algorithms
  • Strapdown Inertial Navigation Systems
  • SDR or software defined radios
  • Instrument and navigation applications
  • Multi-Sensor Fusion Algorithms
  • Quantum Science
  • IMU Systems engineering
  • MEMS Instrument Engineering
  • Instrument engineering
• Ability to work onsite

Basic Qualifications for a Sr. Principal R&D Navigation Engineer are:

• 9+ years of experience with a Bachelors of Science in a STEM discipline, 7+ years of experience with Masters; 4 Years with a PhD
• US Citizenship is required in order to obtain and maintain security clearance
• Engineering experience or academic background in the navigation/FPNT domain, specifically in one or more of the following areas:
  • NAVWAR Algorithms
  • Timing and Distributed Clock Algorithms
  • Strapdown Inertial Navigation Systems
  • SDR or software defined radios
  • Instrument and navigation applications
  • Multi-Sensor Fusion Algorithms
  • Quantum Science
  • IMU Systems engineering
  • MEMS Instrument Engineering
  • Instrument engineering
• Ability to work onsite

Preferred Qualifications:

• Proficiency in digital design
• MS in Electrical Engineering
• Proficiency with C/C++
• Solidworks experience a plus
• NI Labview experience a plus
• Experience with inertial sensors (gyros and accelerometers)
• Experience working on government and internally funded R&D projects
• Excellent written and oral communication skills

Salary Range: $115,200 USD - $172,800 USD

Salary Range 2: $142,800 USD - $214,200 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/.

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