Sr Principal Engineer Electronics

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

Senior Principal Electrical Design Engineer responsible for the design, development, manufacturing, and test engineering support for power supply designs for an ignition safety device used on a multi-stage launch vehicle. Requires expertise in analog circuits, power electronics, switch-mode topologies, magnetic design, and feedback controls. Must have a Secret security clearance.

What you'd actually do

  1. Responsible for detailed design of Analog circuits and sub-systems, including analog power supply design
  2. Design tasks include box level requirements analysis, board level requirements development, conceptual design, preliminary design, and detailed design through design verification and transition to production.
  3. Analysis tasks include detailed circuit modeling, simulation and analysis, signal integrity analysis, electrical stress analysis, and worst-case circuit analysis.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor's degree in Electrical or Electronics Engineering with 8 years of relevant experience; or a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering with 6 years of relevant experience, or a PhD in Electrical Engineering with 4 years of relevant experience
  • 3+ years of design/analysis/test experience in electrical engineering specializing in power electronics, switch-mode topologies, magnetic design, and feedback controls
  • Proven capability to design, build, and test power electronics designs
  • Electrical circuit design experience
  • Experience with discrete component power supply design
  • Circuit modeling and simulation experience
  • Schematic capture experience
  • Circuit and sub-system test and troubleshooting experience
  • US Citizenship
  • Active DoD Secret security clearance or ability to obtain one.
  • Ability to work onsite in Chandler, AZ

Nice to have

  • 5+ years of design/analysis/test experience in electrical engineering specializing in power electronics, switch-mode topologies, magnetic design, and feedback controls
  • Radiation hardening of electronic designs
  • Design/test for EMI compatibility
  • Cadence Schematic Capture and PCB Editor
  • Circuit board design
  • Signal integrity analysis
  • Worst case circuit analysis
  • Electrical stress analysis
  • Design verification and test
  • Ability to lead and drive troubleshooting to closure, including providing technical solutions to programs
  • Collaboration skills across disciplines, including systems engineering, mechanical engineering, thermal/structural analysis, reliability, manufacturing/test, program management

What the JD emphasized

  • Secret security clearance
  • US Citizenship