Staff Systems Engineer - Electromagnetic Environmental Effects (e3)

Northrop Grumman Northrop Grumman · Aerospace · Melbourne, FL +1 · Systems/Architecture/Test

Staff Systems Engineer focused on Electromagnetic Environmental Effects (E3) for defense and aerospace programs. Responsibilities include defining, analyzing, and verifying E3 requirements, designing shielding and filters, and mentoring junior engineers. Requires experience with relevant military standards and RF/test engineering.

What you'd actually do

  1. All programs have E3 requirements, so an E3 engineer must be capable of writing, interpreting, allocating, tailoring and flowing down E3 requirements to all design levels.
  2. E3 engineers interact across all phases of a program, so strong technical communication skills and a readiness to explain complex technical issues with brevity to an audience unfamiliar with the E3 topic are necessary.
  3. E3 engineers need to present at design reviews to internal and external customers regarding E3 issues.
  4. An E3 engineer must be capable of writing E3 design guidelines, developing models and performing analyses on components, subsystems and systems using EMI principles.
  5. E3 engineers are responsible for designing ground systems, chassis and harness shielding, EMI filters, and selecting and laying out interface circuitry for achieving EMC.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor of Science degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) discipline and 12 years of experience, OR Master of Science degree in a STEM discipline and 10 years of experience, OR a PhD in a STEM discipline and 8 years of experience.
  • Ability to obtain and maintain a US Government Secret clearance.
  • Ability to obtain and maintain Special Access Program (SAP) clearance.
  • Experience with MIL-STD-464 or MIL-STD-461
  • Experience in RF, Test or design engineering

Nice to have

  • Bachelor of science degree in Electrical Engineering, with a specialty in Electromagnetics, RF, or analog circuitry.
  • Experience with defense and aerospace industry practices, and programmatic skills supporting BOE, RFP, ROM, CAM, WBS, Risk assessments for E3 compliance is a plus for candidates.
  • Extensive design experience with EMI filters, circuit layout and analysis for E3, shielding, lightning protection, cable and harnessing design.
  • Working knowledge and experience in modeling and simulation of E3 using commercially available software is a plus.
  • Experience with design for TEMPEST and EMI/EMC compliance and system level integration (bonding, grounding, shielding, filtering, transient suppression).

What the JD emphasized

  • Must have the ability to obtain and maintain a US Government Secret clearance.
  • Must have the ability to obtain and maintain Special Access Program (SAP) clearance.
  • Must have experience with MIL-STD-464 or MIL-STD-461