**Requisition ID: R10179409**
+ **Category:** Engineering
+ **Location:** Melbourne, Florida, United States of America
+ **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
+ **Positions Available:** 1
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.
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.
**This position is currently contingent on program award and associated program award funding. Start dates are determined after funding confirmation.**
**Please note: Only external candidates and NG employees who are not currently in AS Engineering will be considered under this requisition.**
Northrop Grumman’s Aeronautics Systems sector is seeking a **Sr. Staff 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 work with cross-disciplinary teams to 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 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
+ Lead and support functional and performance analyses
+ Lead and support detailed trade studies
+ Lead and support risk analysis and developing mitigation plans and tracking to closure
+ Collaborate with other disciplines, product teams 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
+ Identifying/planning/executing aircraft ground and flight test on subsystems to validate and verify subsystem requirement and sell-off
+ Lead and support technical discussions with the customer and having daily interaction with management, external personnel, customers, and various sub teams
+ Guiding the team through development/implementation activities.
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. Staff Electronic Warfare (EW) Engineer (T06):**
+ Must have a Bachelor’s degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) discipline from an accredited university AND 14 years of related professional/military experience in Engineering; OR a Master’s degree in a STEM discipline from an accredited university AND 12 years of related professional/military experience in Engineering; or a Ph.D. AND 10 years of related professional/military experience in Engineering.
+ Your ability to transfer and maintain the final adjudicated government Secret clearance, and any program access(es) required for the position within a reasonable period of time, as determined by the company.
+ Experience designing, developing, integrating, and/or testing RF sensor subsystems for airborne platforms.
+ Experience in decomposing, deriving, allocating and tracing requirements from system to component level
+ Experience with working on a multidisciplinary team and writing technical proposals
+ Experience with scheduling engineering activities
+ Experience with Agile development
+ Experience in supplier/subcontract management
+ Experience with developing supplier documentation, performance-based specifications, and statements of work
+ Experience engaging directly with internal and external technical and programmatic representatives
**Preferred Qualifications:**
+ 15+ years of technical engineering experience
+ 6+ years of technical leadership experience
+ Experience with RF antenna and component design and performance analysis
+ Experience in model-based systems engineering using Cameo or similar SysML tools
+ Experience in performance analysis using MATLAB and Excel or similar tools
+ Familiarity with Atlassian collaboration tool set (Jira and Confluence)
+ 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
+ Experience in the development of real time embedded software
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. U.S. Citizenship is required for most positions.
**Salary Range:** $162,500 - $243,700
The 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's experience, education, skills and current market conditions.
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 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.
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. U.S. Citizenship is required for all positions with a government clearance and certain other restricted positions.