Staff Electronic Warfare Engineer

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available\n\nCLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: Yes\n\nCLEARANCE TYPE: Secret\n\nTRAVEL: Yes, 10% of the Time\n\n## Description\n\nAt Northrop Grumman, our employees have incredible opportunities to work on revolutionary systems that impact people\u0027s 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\u0027s 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 \u2014 and we have an insatiable drive to do what others think is impossible. Our employees are not only part of history, they\u0027re making history.\n\nPlease note that this opportunity is contingent on program funding. Start dates are determined after funding confirmation. \n\n\nAt Northrop Grumman, our employees have incredible opportunities to work on revolutionary systems that impact people\u0027s 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\u0027s 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 \u2014 and we have an insatiable drive to do what others think is impossible. Our employees are not only part of history, but they\u2019re also making history. \n\nNorthrop Grumman Aerospace Systems has an opening for a Staff Electronic Warfare Engineer to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals. This position will be in Melbourne, FL and will be based within our office spaces to support the program and business needs. Operating on our 9/80 schedule means you will get every other Friday off. This position has no Hybrid or Remote work available. \n\nThe 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 work with cross-disciplinary teams to design, develop, build, and test EW systems in conjunction with key suppliers. \n\nRoles and Responsibilities: \n\n * Lead and support development and integration of electronic warfare subsystems and components to meet platform mission objectives \n\n * Requirements development, analysis, maturation and implementation, translating customer requirements into hardware and software specifications \n\n * Lead and support functional and performance analyses \n\n * Lead and support detailed trade studies \n\n * Lead and support risk analysis and developing mitigation plans and tracking to closure \n\n * Collaborating with other disciplines, product teams and program stakeholders \n\n * Technical management of program strategic partners and suppliers, including development, acquisition, acceptance, qualification, system integration and test support \n\n * Identifying/planning/executing informal and formal testing of subsystem requirements in lab, troubleshooting hardware in the lab \n\n * Identifying/planning/executing aircraft ground and flight test on subsystems to validate and verify subsystem requirement and sell-off \n\n * Lead and support technical discussions with the customer and have daily interaction with management, external personnel, customers, and various sub teams \n\n * Guiding the team through development/implementation activities. \n\n\n\n\nA 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. \n\n\u200b\n\nBasic Qualifications:\n\n * Must have a Bachelor\u2019s degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) discipline from an accredited university AND 12 years of related professional/military experience in Engineering; OR a Master\u2019s degree in a (STEM) discipline from an accredited university AND 10 years of related professional/military experience in Engineering; or a Ph.D. (STEM) AND 8 years of related professional/military experience in Engineering.\n\n * Experience in decomposing, deriving, allocating and tracing requirements from system to component level \n\n * Experience with working on a multidisciplinary team and writing technical proposals \n\n * Experience with scheduling engineering activities \n\n * Experience with Agile development \n\n * Experience in supplier/subcontract management \n\n * Experience with developing supplier documentation, performance-based specifications, and statements of work \n\n * Experience engaging directly with internal and external technical and programmatic representatives\n\n * Your ability to transfer and maintain the final adjudicated Secret clearance (DoD must be in-scope or enrolled in Continuous Evaluation) and any program access(es) required for the position within a reasonable period of time, as determined by the Company\n\n\n\n\nPreferred Qualifications:\n\n * 15+ years of technical engineering experience \n\n * 6+ years of technical leadership experience \n\n * Experience with RF antenna and component design and performance analysis \n\n * Experience in model-based systems engineering using Cameo or similar SysML tools \n\n * Experience in performance analysis using MATLAB and Excel or similar tools \n\n * Familiarity with Atlassian collaboration tool set (Jira and Confluence) \n\n * Experience building supplier evaluation criteria and experience in conducting technical evaluations, documenting results and selection \n\n * Ability to review documents from the supplier\u2019s development effort and support supplier technical interchange meetings and design review \n\n * Experience in the development of real-time embedded software \n\n\n\n\n#AS-FA3\n\nPrimary Level Salary Range: $152,900.00 - $229,300.00\n\nThe above salary range represents a general guideline; however, Northrop Grumman considers a number of factors when determining base salary offers such as the scope and responsibilities of the position and the candidate\u0027s experience, education, skills and current market conditions.\n\nDepending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and 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.\n\nThe application period for the job is estimated to be 20 days from the job posting date. However, this timeline may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates.\n\nNorthrop Grumman is an Equal Opportunity 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 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.\n