Staff Systems Test Engineer

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: No relocation assistance available

CLEARANCE TYPE: Secret

TRAVEL: Yes, 25% 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 a trusted provider of mission-enabling solutions for global security.  Our organization 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. 

 

We are looking for you to join our team as a Staff Principal Systems Test Engineer based out of Elkridge, MD. As a Staff Principal Systems Test Engineer at Northrop Grumman you will have a challenging and rewarding opportunity to be a part of our Enterprise-wide digital transformation. Through the use of Model-based Engineering, DevSecOps and Agile practices we continue to evolve how we deliver critical national defense products and capabilities for the warfighter. Our success is grounded in our ability to embrace change, move quickly and continuously drive innovation. The successful candidate will be collaborative, open, transparent, and team-oriented with a focus on team empowerment & shared responsibility, flexibility, continuous learning, and a culture of automation.

 

Roles and Responsibilities

• Integrating, troubleshooting, and testing RF sensor systems
• Supporting integration / lab environment development and establishment
• Collaborate with software, firmware, and hardware teams to understand expected unit level and system level behavior to define test cases, and ensure testing is producing expected data points.
• Define & develop test capabilities that exercise and stress respective software and hardware capabilities.
• Support the development and maintenance of system integration plans and system test plans.

 

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor of Science (BS) degree in science, engineering, or related discipline with 12 years of experience; or 10 years of relevant experience with a Masters (MS) degree; or 8 years of experience with STEM PhD degree.
  • An additional 4 years of relevant experience/education can be considered in lieu of a Bachelor of Science Degree
• Experience with RF lab test equipment: signal generator, oscilloscope, spectrum analyzer, etc.
• Experience troubleshooting and resolving HW/SW/FW integration problems
• Experience with test scripting, data analysis, and/or signal processing
• Knowledge of RF systems and hardware
• Candidate must be a US citizen
• Clearance: Candidate must currently have, and be able to maintain an active/current U.S. Government DOD Secret Clearance or higher.

 

Preferred Qualifications

• Understanding of Systems Engineering concepts, including requirements analysis and verification planning and execution
• Multi-disciplinary