Manager Digital Engineering 2 - Linthicum

Northrop Grumman Northrop Grumman · Aerospace · Linthicum Heights, MD +1 · Engineering Mult-Func

Manager for a Digital Engineering team focused on FPGA design and digital architecture within Northrop Grumman's Space Systems division. Responsibilities include team supervision, performance management, career development, staffing, project oversight, and strategic hiring. The role supports development and production programs across the full engineering lifecycle.

What you'd actually do

  1. Technical or IPT Leadership on a piece of a larger program
  2. General team supervision, performance management, career development, staffing, merit planning, engagement, employee rewards and recognition, and resolving personnel issues
  3. Provide project and technical oversight for design activities performed by the group
  4. Strategic hiring and employee skills development, labor forecasting and execution through close collaboration with program management, and balancing employee needs with business goals
  5. Manpower and resource assignment

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor of Science Degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Math (STEM) discipline plus 8 years of engineering experience OR Master of Science Degree in a STEM discipline plus 6 years of engineering experience OR PhD in a STEM discipline with 4 years of engineering experience
  • Excellent verbal, organizational, and written communication skills
  • FPGA design
  • Technical or IPT Team Lead experience
  • Ability to obtain and maintain a Top Secret/SCI security clearance with polygraph

Nice to have

  • 6 years of digital hardware or FPGA design engineering experience
  • Experience with DSP Design – FIR Filters, Detection algorithms and channelization
  • Demonstrated technical leadership of digital design teams
  • Ability to collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams
  • Able to work in a fast-paced environment where multiple projects are being developed and deployed simultaneously
  • Experience with program management, functional management, and/or customer management
  • Active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph

What the JD emphasized

  • FPGA design
  • Technical or IPT Team Lead experience
  • Top Secret/SCI security clearance with polygraph