Sr. Principal Blos Communications Electronics Engineer

Northrop Grumman Northrop Grumman · Aerospace · Melbourne, FL +1 · Electrical

Sr. Principal Electronics Engineer focused on the development, integration, and analysis of Beyond Line-of-Sight (BLOS) communications subsystems for airborne military applications. Responsibilities include requirements management, performance and trade studies, supplier technical management, and verification/validation.

What you'd actually do

  1. Support development and integration of communications subsystems and components to meet platform mission objectives
  2. Requirements development, analysis, maturation and implementation, translating customer requirements into hardware and software specifications
  3. Perform performance and functional analyses
  4. Conducting detailed trade studies
  5. Performing risk analysis and developing mitigation plans and tracking to closure

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor’s degree in STEM or Master’s degree in STEM
  • 8 years of related professional/military experience (or 6 with Master's)
  • Experience in supplier/subcontract management
  • Developing supplier documentation, performance-based specifications, and statements of work
  • Designing, integrating, testing, installing, operating LOS (VLF Rx, HF, VHF, UHF, Ku) communication systems in airborne military applications
  • Experience with voice, military and network waveforms
  • Experience with performance assessment through link margin and antenna pattern analyses
  • Experience with RF antenna and component design and performance analysis
  • Ability to transfer and maintain the final adjudicated government Top-Secret clearance

Nice to have

  • Experience in model-based systems engineering using Cameo or similar SysML tools
  • Experience in performance analysis using MATLAB and Excel or similar tools
  • Familiarity with Atlassian collaboration tool set (Jira and Confluence)
  • Experience building supplier evaluation criteria and experience in conducting technical evaluations, documenting results and selection
  • Ability to review documents from the supplier’s development effort and support supplier technical interchange meetings and design review

What the JD emphasized

  • Top Secret clearance