Principal/Sr. Principal Custom Hardware CCB Systems Engineer (OX1108)

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE TYPE: Polygraph

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.

Today’s dynamic global security threats require solutions both big and small – solutions living within the Northrop Grumman Microelectronics Center (NGMC). Boasting state-of-the-art design capabilities, multiple processing nodes, electrical testing, environmental and QCI screening, and failure analysis, the NGMC is a leader in designing, fabricating, packaging, and delivering discriminating microelectronics to the military, aerospace, and commercial markets.  For more than 70 years, we have been offering a wide range of trusted foundry and semiconductor services that deliver high performing and reliable microelectronics. Our wide breadth of technologies and capabilities allows us to provide our customers with unique “More than Moore” solutions. Microelectronics | Northrop Grumman

The Systems Engineering Integration & Test (SEIT) department is seeking Custom Hardware Change Control Board (CCB) Systems Engineers to join our team and pioneer new approaches, design and implement technologies for a computer integrated manufacturing system. You’ll work in a fast-paced team environment alongside physicists, design engineers, and superconducting foundry engineers to make these technologies a reality while providing solid systems engineering rigor and establishing foundational change management practices.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Assist our Research and Development teams to implement and manage their Change Control Boards (CCB), with the goal of becoming self-governing.
• Support test and test development activities for RQL logic research and development.
• Collaborative efforts with peers and other engineering disciplines in the planning, design, prototyping, and integration of complex mixed signal systems
• Design electronic circuits for use in custom electronic test equipment systems used in the measurement of cryogenic cooled superconducting devices
• Some experience with discrete circuit design of amplifiers from 10MHz to 10GHz
• Experience with microprocessors that integrate low noise analog signal interfaces
• Familiar with design of instrumentation/low noise signaling, ADC, DAC and passive filters.
• Testing procedures for the characterization and validation of RQL device function.

This position requires work on site located at our Advanced Technology Lab (ATL) in Linthicum/ Annapolis Junction, MD.

 This requisition may be filled as a Principal Custom Hardware CCB Systems Engineer or Senior Principal Custom Hardware CCB Systems Engineer.

Basic Qualifications for Principal Custom Hardware CCB Systems Engineer: 

• Bachelor's Degree or higher in a STEM discipline (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) such as Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Physics, or a similar technical discipline with 5 years of related experience or MS with 3 years of related experience, or PhD in a STEM discipline with 1 years of related experience.
• Proficient in the use of at least one of the following programing languages; MATLAB, Python, C, or C++.
• Practical knowledge of design that includes: signal integrity, low noise systems, troubleshooting skills, microcontrollers, operational amplifier, integration, passive/active filtering, discrete circuits etc.
• Electronic circuit design simulation experience using PSpice or equivalent
• Lead system engineering activities: trade studies, analysis of alternatives and requirement decomposition/allocation.
• This position requires the applicant to be a U.S. citizen.
• This position requires the ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI with poly clearance per business requirements.

Basic Qualifications for Senior Principal Custom Hardware CCB Systems