Sr Principal Electrical Engineer - 4

Northrop Grumman Northrop Grumman · Aerospace · Chandler, AZ +1 · Electrical

Electrical Engineer with experience in circuit design, analysis, simulation, and testing for programs, potentially involving radiation effects and military/space environments. Requires a Bachelor's degree with 8 years of experience or a Master's with 6 years, proficiency in Cadence tools, and simulation software. Must be a US citizen and able to obtain a Secret Clearance.

What you'd actually do

  1. As a member of the circuit design team, you’ll be responsible for circuit design and development for programs.
  2. You will perform detailed board-level digital and mixed signal circuit design, circuit analysis and simulation to verify as-designed circuit response meets requirement criteria.
  3. You will select component parts for the design to meet stringent environments, including radiation effects.
  4. You will evaluate completed design with more senior engineers and other technical groups and make modifications necessary to achieve a design that satisfies requirements.
  5. Write design and test documentation including analyses, specifications, user manuals, test procedures, etc.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelors with 8 years’ digital / mixed signal design experience or Masters with 6 years’ experience
  • Cadence Schematic Capture and board layout using Allegro
  • circuit simulation including PSpice or LTSpice
  • hardware troubleshooting / software debugging
  • Physical testing experience including lab measurement (oscilloscope, signal/function generator, logic analyzer, etc)
  • design documents, specifications, user's manuals, test plans and procedures
  • Agile project format, team-based environment, including Jira and Git environments

Nice to have

  • Cadence Allegro PWB
  • CAM350
  • Matlab
  • VHDL
  • Python
  • microprocessor and/or FPGA circuit design
  • circuit design for military/space environments
  • Active DoD Secret Security Clearance

What the JD emphasized

  • Secret Clearance
  • U.S. Citizenship is required
  • Ability to obtain/maintain a DoD Active Secret Clearance