Senior Principal Engineer - Subsystems Electrical Design

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

Senior Principal Engineer - Subsystems Electrical Design role at Northrop Grumman, focusing on electrical design, analysis, and troubleshooting for aircraft subsystems including System Architecture, Cable Design, and Electrical Power Generation & Distribution. Requires a STEM Bachelor's degree and 8 years of experience in aerospace structural design or equivalent, with the ability to obtain a Secret clearance and SAP clearance.

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

  • Aerospace structural design
  • electrical design of air vehicle systems
  • obtain and maintain a U.S Government secret clearance
  • obtain and maintain a Special Access Program (SAP) clearance

Nice to have

  • Active U.S Government Secret (or higher) clearance
  • military aircraft subsystem development
  • requirements definition
  • specification development
  • component analysis
  • procurement
  • source selection
  • integration and test and verification for advance aircraft
  • interpreting component detail drawings
  • specifications
  • installation drawings
  • test procedures

What the JD emphasized

  • Secret clearance
  • SAP clearance