Principal or Sr Principal RF Engineer Mcclellan, CA
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Requisition ID: R10125646

  • Category : Engineering

  • Location : McClellan, California, United States of America

  • Citizenship required : United States Citizenship

  • Clearance Type : Secret

  • Telecommute : No- Teleworking not available for this position

  • Shift : 1st Shift (United States of America)

  • Travel Required : Yes, 10% of the Time

  • Relocation Assistance : Relocation assistance may be available

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.

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!

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.

We are looking for you to join our team as a Principal or Sr Principal RF Engineer based out of McClellan, CA. As a Principal or Sr Principal RF Engineer at Northrop Grumman you will have a challenging and rewarding opportunity to be a part of our Enterprise-wide digital transformation. Through the use of Model-based Engineering, DevSecOps and Agile practices we continue to evolve how we deliver critical national defense products and capabilities for the warfighter. 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:

Design, develop, test radio frequency (RF) and/or microwave systems architecture, components, circuits, circuit card development, or products. Assignments can include antenna design and analysis for antennas and array systems, frequency synthesizers, transmitters and receivers; this position will also perform design, documentation and delivery of RF CCAs and modules. You will apply advanced technical principles, theories, and concepts. The work contributes to the development of new principles and concepts. This person will work on unusually complex technical problems and provide solutions which are highly innovative and ingenious.

You will also get to:

  • Support or lead teams for new or re-design efforts: update drawings, coordinate with different functional teams to make updates in a timely manner

  • Schedule staff and equipment resources to meet test milestones; perform and complete Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT) and creation of reports for system sell-off

  • Provide technical acumen for HW- technical resource on various phases of the project provide technical interface/point of contact/responsible engineer- subcontractors, vendors, customers, and field support

  • Support proposal efforts as needed: obtain quotations, material costs, BOM support, generate white papers, generate TDBOEs, cost and schedule estimates.

  • Attend/Support ERB/CCBs, Review and approve documents and provide hardware support as needed.

  • Support ad-hoc tasking providing HW support to SW development, create test procedure documentation and training packages, select and testing of replacement components due to DMS, support of field questions and testing

Perform technical analysis:

  • Evaluate system level tradeoffs and specification impacts of upgrades/design efforts and hardware replacements.

  • Perform RF & System Hardware analysis/development as directed by Program Managers/team leaders.

  • Perform signal integrity analysis using HFSS or similar tools for ground plane noise interface.

  • Perform chassis specification allocation to meet System Level Performance.

  • Review chassis, CCA, component, system test data.

  • Evaluate specification modifications vs. rework of hardware

  • Calculate parameters as needed. E.G. material replacement required recalculation of coplanar waveguide impedance to determine if line spacing / thickness would need to be modified if the new material was substituted.

This position may be filled as either a P rincipal RF Engineer or Sr Principal RF Engineer.

Basic Qualification Principal RF Engineer:

  • Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering or Degree in a STEM discipline (Science, Technology, Engineering or Math) and 5 years' relevant experience OR Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering or Degree in a STEM discipline (Science, Technology, Engineering or Math) and 3 years experience

  • Proven experience in RF Analysis tools such as ADS, Microwave Office, FEKO, HFSS, AWR VSS

  • Experience in maintaining / reporting status of program activities while collaborating with employees within the department and across functions.

  • Ability to work with little direct supervision, self-motivated, self-starting.

  • US Citizen and must have the ability to obtain and maintain at least a Secret level Clearance per business requirements.

Basic Qualification Sr Principal RF Engineer:

  • Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering or Degree in a STEM discipline (Science, Technology, Engineering or Math) and 9 years' relevant experience OR Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering or Degree in a STEM discipline (Science, Technology, Engineering or Math) and 7 years experience

  • Proven experience in RF Analysis tools such as ADS, Microwave Office, FEKO, HFSS, AWR VSS

  • Experience in maintaining / reporting status of program activities while collaborating with employees within the department and across functions.

  • Ability to work with little direct supervision, self-motivated, self-starting.

  • US Citizen and must have the ability to obtain and maintain at least a Secret level Clearance per business requirements.

Preferred Qualifications :

  • Degree in Electrical Engineering with a concentration in (RF concentrations)

  • Hands on tuning of boards with ability to isolate and mitigate spurs and noise

  • Control + resolution of spurs and noise via design and analysis tools

  • Design RF filters both embedded and strip line

  • Working knowledge of the Maxwell Equations

  • Posses a Secret or Top Secret/SCI clearance

  • Familiarity with Mentor Expedition

  • Knowledge of Earned Value Management System (EVMS) and CAM experience

  • Familiarity with AS9100 and helpful

  • Working knowledge of system sensor and sensor testing

  • Experience testing antenna products

  • Experience in maintaining / reporting status of program activities while collaborating with employees within the department and across functions.

Salary Range: $104,600 - $157,000

Salary Range 2: $129,700 - $194,500

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.

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