Sr Staff Engineer Signal Processing

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: No

CLEARANCE TYPE: SCI

TRAVEL: Yes, 10% of the Time

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.

Northrop Grumman Mission Systems is seeking a Senior Staff System Engineer Signal Processing background to work in Sacramento, California.  Join a team that develops transformative signal processing solutions to solve complex challenges in Signals Intelligence (SIGINT). Your work will contribute to real-world national security initiatives.  We offer a wide variety of professional development opportunities, mentorship by senior engineers, and access to cutting-edge tools and technologies like Ultra-Wideband (UWB) Software-Defined Radios (SDRs) and Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) for deployment of advanced signal processing algorithms. 

This role requires no clearance to start, however the ability and willingness to obtain Top Secret with SCI clearance is required for continued long term employment. 

The engineer will be expected to have a command on core communications systems engineering concepts from their electrical engineering degree to perform analysis, devise requirements for and implement the signal processing algorithms.  

Responsibilities: 

• Perform architecture trades, design analysis, and performance modeling

• Provide engineering support for hardware development efforts. 

• Design detection and characterization algorithms for Radio Frequency communication signals

• Implement detection and characterization algorithms 

• Test signal processing algorithms and receivers in a lab environment. 

• Design, test, and produce detection, characterization, and geolocation algorithms. 

• Support the deployment of core products on new platforms (e.g., manned aircraft, drones, ships, etc.). 

 

Basic Qualifications for System Engineer Level 6

• Must have a BS degree in a STEM field and at least 14 years relevant experience, or MS degree in a STEM field and at least 12 years of relevant experience, or a PhD and at least 10 years of relevant experience

• Requirements Translation: Ability to convert complex operational needs into technical system requirements

• Domain Expertise:  Command of tactical SIGINT operations, military capabilities, and geolocation concepts.

• DSP Fundamentals:  Expertise in modulation/demodulation, FFT/spectral analysis, filtering (FIR/IIR), resampling, channelization, and detection/estimation theory.

• SIGINT/RF Expertise:  Experience with Software Defined Radios (SDR), RF front-ends, IQ data, geolocation techniques (DF/beamforming), and signal characterization

 

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Hardware Acceleration:  Experience with CUDA/GPU programming is increasingly critical for real-time performance optimization in SIGINT signal chains.

• Agile/DevOps:  Experience in Agile software development and containerization tools like Docker or Kubernetes for deploying SIGINT applications

• Analysis Tools:  Familiarity with specialized tools like X-MIDAS, MATLAB/Simulink, and Linux-based toolchains.

• Experience with the Atlassian tool suite (Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket)

• Practical experience or cours