Power Supply Engineer Level 5

Northrop Grumman Northrop Grumman · Aerospace · Baltimore, MD +1 · Electrical

Northrop Grumman is seeking a Staff Power Electronics Engineer to design and develop state-of-the-art power supplies and power products for military applications. The role involves performing power supply design, simulation, analysis, schematic creation, component selection, PCB layout, technical trade studies, worst-case analysis, and providing manufacturing support. The engineer will also lead a team through the design, simulation, and testing of power supplies, and work with system and hardware engineers to develop requirements and architect new circuit design topologies.

What you'd actually do

  1. Perform power supply design, including simulation and analysis, schematic creation, component selection, and printed wiring board layout
  2. Perform technical trade studies
  3. Perform worst case analysis and component stress analysis
  4. Provide manufacturing support for your hardware builds
  5. Develop Acceptance Test Procedures and perform first piece hardware checkout/testing

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or similar engineering discipline (STEM) with a minimum 12 years of power electronics design experience or 10 years of experience with a master’s degree or 7 years with a Ph.D.
  • Power Supply circuit design experience, including schematic capture through test and integration
  • Experience utilizing schematic capture tools such as Mentor Graphics/Expedition, Altium, or similar software
  • Power electronic simulation experience, such as LTSpice/SPICE/PSPICE, Saber, SIMPLIS, Simulink, or similar circuit simulation software
  • Hands-on prototyping and debug experience testing complex power systems, including various switch-mode power electronic topologies and linear regulators
  • Ability to translate system performance and operational specifications into hardware requirements, design, and test specifications
  • team leadership
  • mentoring others
  • communicating with all levels of an organization internally and externally
  • being adaptable
  • creative
  • collaborative
  • comfortable working independently
  • enjoys solving difficult problems
  • US Citizen

Nice to have

  • An advanced degree in Electrical Engineering, focused on Power Conversion/Power Electronics, with a minimum 8 years of power electronics design experience
  • Proficiency in Worst Case Circuit Analysis (WCCA) and power integrity analysis
  • Working knowledge of designing high frequency magnetics including transformers, coupled inductors, EMI chokes and common mode filters
  • project planning
  • Current TS/SCI security clearance

What the JD emphasized

  • No clearance required to start, but must be a US Citizen and have the ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI security clearance