Manufacturing Test Engineering (rf Systems)

Northrop Grumman Northrop Grumman · Aerospace · Rolling Meadows, IL +1 · Electrical

Northrop Grumman is seeking a Manufacturing Test Engineer specializing in RF Systems to support product testing of aerial, military-grade, or space-grade Electronic Warfare Systems and Subsystems. Responsibilities include troubleshooting hardware and test equipment, designing test fixtures, developing test procedures, and collaborating with various engineering and production teams. Requires a Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering or related STEM field, experience with RF test equipment, and an active DoD Secret Clearance.

What you'd actually do

  1. Investigate, design, and provide solutions to meet new or modified testing requirements.
  2. Coordinate with Electrical Design Engineering, Software & Firmware Engineering, Production technician, Project Management, Manufacturing Engineering, Industrial Engineering, and Quality organizations to meet contractual acceptance testing commitments.
  3. Generate and maintain/revise Manufacturing Acceptance testing procedures, Environmental Screening procedures, hardware drawings of test equipment and fixtures.
  4. Review of quality metrics to identify and implement continuous improvement initiatives to reduce cost, cycle time, defects.
  5. Collaborate with design engineering to achieve testability in new and updated product design.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor's degree in Electrical and/or Computer Engineering or a related STEM field with a minimum of 2 years of relevant work experience; OR a Master's degree in equivalent fields.
  • Experience with the use electrical and/or RF test equipment such as spectrum analyzers, power supplies, network analyzers, etc.
  • Experience generating or reading/interpreting schematics, drawings, specifications.
  • Active DoD Security Clearance.
  • U.S. Citizenship required.

Nice to have

  • Prior test equipment, fixture or prime hardware design experience.
  • Software experience with C#, Lab windows CVI, Java, C, C++.
  • Experience with Electronic Warfare system/hardware.
  • Experience performing earned value/CAM efforts.
  • Experience with project planning

What the JD emphasized

  • Active DoD Security Clearance
  • Secret Clearance