Principal / Senior Principal Physicist
Northrop GrummanAbout the role
Description
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 the heart of Defining Possible is our commitment to missions. In rapidly changing global security environments, Northrop Grumman brings informed insights and software-secure technology to enable strategic planning. We’re looking for innovators who can help us keep building on our wide portfolio of secure, affordable, integrated, and multi-domain systems and technologies that fuel those missions. By joining in our shared mission, we’ll support yours of expanding your personal network and developing skills, whether you are new to the field, or an industry thought leader. At Northrop Grumman, you’ll have the resources, support, and team to do some of the best work of your career.
We are looking for you to join our Emerging Capabilities Development (ECD) disciplined team as a Principal / Senior Principal Physicist, this position will be located at our Linthicum, MD or San Diego, CA location. As a Principal / Senior Principal Physicist you will perform research and development activities that seek to provide unprecedented capabilities by missionizing concepts at the frontier of physics. You will actively contribute to the following to include high-energy muon sources, charged particle beam dynamics, conventional RF particles accelerators, compact particle accelerator and detector technologies, integration and application of advanced laser technology, and other emerging mission applications of high-energy physics, plasma physics, and related disciplines. The Principal / Senior Principal Physicist will work across disparate scientific and engineering domains, working with subject matter experts from other fields, to yield mission relevant applications.
What you’ll get to do:
Designing and simulating particle accelerators and fixed target beamlines
Evaluating various particle accelerator and fixed target beamline architectures
Designing, operating, and commissioning novel ionizing radiation detectors
Developing ionizing radiation transport simulation software frameworks for evaluating and predicting performance of potential ionizing radiation detector designs
Developing automated data acquisition software for data readout of ionizing radiation detectors
Developing algorithms for triggering, reconstructing, and analyzing data from physical and simulated ionizing radiation detectors
Performing and analyzing simulations of ionizing radiation transport through radiation beamlines
Liaising with and maintaining a network of collaborators in academia, national laboratories, and other similar institutions
Ideating and proposing new concepts that apply physics to mission-relevant applications
This position is contingent upon contract award and the ability to obtain / maintain an active DoD Top Secret clearance after hire.
Basic Qualifications for a Principal Physicist:
Bachelor’s degree with 5 years of experience, master's degree with 3 years of experience or a Ph.D. with 1 year of experience in Physics or related Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics technical fields; an additional 4 years of experience may be considered in lieu of a degree
U.S Citizenship required
The ability to obtain and maintain a DoD Top Secret clearance is required
Experience as a software developer using C/C++ and python
Experience with distributed version control systems such as git, svn, or cvs
Experience working in a Unix/Linux environment
Experience working on ionizing radiation detectors, particle accelerator/collider experiments, and/or experiments on fixed target beamlines
Experience working on large cross-disciplinary teams
Experience communicating complex technical details to a non-expert technical audie
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