Sr Principal Engineer RF Microwave Design

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.

The Payload and Ground Systems organization within the Northrop Grumman Space Systems 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!Northrop Grumman Space Systems is seeking a Sr. Principal RF Microwave Design Engineer to join a diverse and talented team of engineers, developing innovative and cost effective systems that support a broad range of products and business areas across the life cycle of a program.The qualified candidate will be experienced in the following areas:
Antennas, Electromagnetics, Computational Electromagnetics, RF/Microwave design, Digital beam-forming, Hardware/Subsystem Integration and Test, and Antenna Control Design.Responsibilities may include but are not limited to:

• Designs, develops, tests radio frequency (RF) and/or microwave systems architecture, components, circuits, or products. Includes antenna design, both reflector and array systems, frequency synthesizers, transmitters and receivers.
• Development of antenna architectures, receiver/exciter architectures, requirements generation/flow down; subsystem analysis including hardware from RF to digits, performance modeling, support for performance testing, requirements verification, and more.
• Have experience designing, developing and/or testing radio frequency (RF) and/or microwave antenna systems and/or related RF hardware. In addition, this candidate should have demonstrated technical ability/leadership and expertise in one or more of
  the following areas:
• Active electronically scanned arrays (AESAs)
• Highly integrated subsystems including antenna hardware
• Reflectors, Reflect Arrays, Digital Beam Forming
• Antenna/RF Performance Analysis
• Computational Electromagnetics, Statistics
• Antenna or Subsystem Control Design
• Antenna Measurements and Data Reduction
• Antenna range integration, test, and system integration
• Subsystem requirements (hardware and software) derivation, flow-down, and configuration
• The Engineering RF Microwave Design positions require the candidates to have the ability to obtain and maintain at least a Top Secret / SCI Clearance per business requirements.

Basic Qualifications:

• Must have a Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or related discipline with 9 years of related experience, or 7 years of experience with a Master's Degree, and/or 4 years of experience with a PhD.
• Ability to Obtain and Maintain and Active Top Secret / SCI Clearance.

Preferred Qualifications:

• TS/SCI with poly
• Experience using Matlab
• Experience using modeling tools such as STK and HFSS

Salary Range: $120,000 USD - $180,000 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.

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