Staff Engineer Subsystems Mechanical - Electrical Design

Northrop Grumman Northrop Grumman · Aerospace · Palmdale, CA +1 · Electrical

Staff Engineer Subsystems Mechanical - Electrical Design role at Northrop Grumman, focusing on electrical design, analysis, requirements, and troubleshooting for aircraft subsystems. Responsibilities include developing electrical wiring designs, selecting components, supporting power systems design, and participating in system-level testing and verification. Requires a STEM Bachelor's degree with significant experience in aerospace structural design or equivalent advanced degrees. A Secret clearance is required.

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

  • Bachelors in Science, Technology, Engineering or Math (STEM) and a minimum of 12 years of experience in Aerospace structural design OR an MS degree in STEM with 10 years of related experience OR a PhD in STEM and 8 years of related experience
  • Experience in electrical design of air vehicle systems
  • Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S Government secret clearance and Special Access Program (SAP) clearance

Nice to have

  • Active U.S Government Secret (or higher) clearance (with a background investigation within the past 6 years or enrolled into Continuous Evaluation).
  • Experience with military aircraft subsystem development, with requirements definition, specification development, component analysis, procurement, source selection, integration and test and verification for advance aircraft
  • Experience interpreting component detail drawings, specifications, installation drawings, and test procedures

What the JD emphasized

  • Secret clearance
  • Special Access Program (SAP) clearance