principal engineering - Baltimore, MD, United States - Northrop Grumman

Description

Category:
Engineering

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 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.

Northrop Grumman Space Systems (NGSS) 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 digital architecture, design, verification, and support 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.

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 Senior Principal Design Engineer responsible for the design, development and test of space 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.

Demonstrated ability to translate system performance and operational specifications into hardware requirements, design, and test specifications. This position supports our Payload and Ground Systems Division, and Remote Sensing Programs (RSP) Business Unit in Linthicum, MD.
Bachelor Degree in Electrical Engineering or comparable STEM degree minimum of 9 years of relevant engineering experience (7+ years with MS degree; 4+ years with PhD)
Proficient in digital circuit design, schematic capture, and PWB/board layout tools
Experience with testing and using lab test equipment
Be able to work on multi-discipline engineering teams and communicate clearly within integrated product team leads
Experience in Worst Case Circuit Analysis (WCCA) including logic compatibility, component derating, timing analysis, signal and power integrity analyses
Top Secret / SCI security clearance
Signal integrity analysis (SERDES, Bit error rates, jitter components and contributors, board to board analysis)

Proficient in design and analysis tools: 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 application period for the job is estimated to be 20 days from the job posting date.

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.