Engineer Electrical (level 2/3) - Subsystems

Northrop Grumman Northrop Grumman · Aerospace · Palmdale, CA +4 · Electrical

Electrical Engineer (level 2/3) for aircraft subsystem development, including electrical design, analysis, requirements, and troubleshooting. Responsibilities include developing electrical wiring designs, selecting components, supporting power generation and distribution systems, and performing system level testing and verification. Requires a STEM degree and experience in aerospace electrical design. Secret clearance is required.

What you'd actually do

  1. Develop electrical wiring designs of a functional system including the selection of aircraft-type conductors and electro-mechanical components such as connectors, relays, switches, circuit breakers, terminal junction systems.
  2. Support design requirements for electrical power generation, conversion and distribution systems, and circuit protective requirements for aerospace vehicle systems including Electrical Loads Analysis, test procedures, power architectures, reports, analyses, and other vehicle power related deliverables.
  3. Responsible for all aspects of system/component design and development including trade studies, layouts, architecture definition, system test & verification, and troubleshooting.
  4. May participate on a subcontractor management team and will act as the technical point of contact with suppliers for hardware development, qualification, and procurement
  5. System level test planning, execution support, verification, data processing, and troubleshooting

Skills

Required

  • Bachelors in Science, Technology, Engineering or Math (STEM)
  • minimum of 2 years of experience in Aerospace structural design OR an MS degree in STEM with 0 years of related experience
  • Experience in electrical design of air vehicle systems
  • Ability to obtain and maintain a DoD secret clearance and Special Access Program (SAP) clearance

Nice to have

  • Active DoD Secret (or higher) clearance (with a background investigation within the past 6 years or enrolled into Continuous Evaluation).
  • Experience with military aircraft subsystem development, with requirements definition, specification development, component analysis, procurement, source selection, integration and test and verification for advance aircraft
  • Experience interpreting component detail drawings, specifications, installation drawings, and test procedures

What the JD emphasized

  • Secret clearance
  • SAP clearance
  • DoD secret clearance