Electronic Warfare (EW) Engineer/ Principal Electronic Warfare (EW) Engineer

Northrop Grumman; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 92,000 - 171,000; Full time

Job summary

Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems seeks an Electronic Warfare (EW) Engineer or Principal EW Engineer to join our team in Palmdale, CA or San Diego (Rancho Bernardo), CA. The role requires coordinating assets, supporting test activities, and ensuring weapons systems readiness on-site with up to 25% travel.

We value a STEM degree with experience in EW airborne payloads and active federal clearances (TS/SCI/SAP).

Qualifications

• Bachelor's in STEM with 2+ years of related engineering experience; or Master's in STEM with related experience.
• Principal Electronics Engineer: Bachelor's in STEM with 5+ years, or Master's with 3+ years, or PhD with 1+ year.
• Experience with EW airborne payload systems.
• Active US Top-Secret Clearance with CI/Background within last 6 years or Continuous Evaluation.
• Ability to obtain/maintain SCI clearance and SAP clearance.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate with customers and vendors to ensure assets are in place and functional.
• Track deployed assets and report status for anomaly reporting.
• Coordinate with Integrated Logistics Support and attend MRB meetings.
• Oversee repair of Line Replaceable Units at supplier facilities.
• Communicate across engineering, operations, and logistics to implement requirements.
• Support pre-, post-, and in-test activities including planning, briefs, and data validation.

Skills

EW experience

Security clearances

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's Degree in STEM

Master's Degree in STEM

PhD in STEM

Job description

Description

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: Yes

CLEARANCE TYPE: Top Secret

TRAVEL: Yes, 25% of the Time

At Northrop Grumman, our employees have incredible opportunities to work on revolutionary systems that impact people's lives around the world today, and for generations to come. Our pioneering and inventive spirit has enabled us to be at the forefront of many technological advancements in our nation's history - from the first flight across the Atlantic Ocean, to stealth bombers, to landing on the moon. We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage and a pioneering spirit to join forces to invent the future, and have fun along the way. Our culture thrives on intellectual curiosity, cognitive diversity and bringing your whole self to work — and we have an insatiable drive to do what others think is impossible. Our employees are not only part of history, they're making history.

Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems is looking to add an Electronic Warfare (EW) Engineer/ Principal Electronic Warfare (EW) Engineer to join our team in Palmdale, CA or San Diego (Rancho Bernardo), CA. The candidate should be a self-starter with familiarity working in an Integrated Product Team construct.

The EW Engineer will be a high-energy individual who will be expected to keep track of deployed assets, collect asset-related status reports from to support statistical and anomaly reporting, coordinate with Integrated Logistics Support team, participate in Material Improvement Process Review Board meetings and provide feedback and responses to action items as necessary, monitor Line Replaceable Units returned from the field and coordinate their repair at the supplier facility, and communicate successfully across engineering, operations, and logistics teams in order to implement requirements.

The successful candidate will coordinate with customers and vendors to ensure that required assets are in place and functional to effectively support operations and that any failed assets are returned to the supplier in a timely manner for repair. They must also be capable of responding to the customer with guidance related to operation and maintenance of assets.

Meeting support responsibilities include readiness reviews, site specific training, test briefs and debriefs, security and coordination with test directors. Post-test support responsibilities include review, analysis and defect investigation of test logs, and validation of test data files, hardware and software troubleshooting on the platform and defect duplication and analysis in a lab. Pre-test support responsibilities include support and checkout of the system, including but not limited to test planning activities to ensure that test objectives are achieved, and results remain within operational specifications of the subsystem.

Responsibilities will also include coordination of anomalies with engineering and supplier Subject Matter Experts. This includes review of service bulletins, training for new software upgrades, review of new NG and supplier generated Discrepancy Reports and tracking existing Discrepancy Reports as new analyses become available.

The selected candidate will be required to work full-time, on-site at our facility. There is NO remote / hybrid / telework available for this position. Travel up to 25% may be required.

• This requisition may be filled at either a Electronic Warfare (EW) Engineer level OR a Principal Electronic Warfare (EW) Engineer level ***

Basic Qualifications

• Electronics Engineer: Bachelor's Degree in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) discipline and 2 years of related engineering experience; OR a Master's degree in a STEM discipline and years of related engineering experience.
• Principal Electronics Engineer: Bachelor's Degree in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) discipline and 5 years of related engineering experience; OR a Master's degree in a STEM discipline and 3 years of related engineering experience; OR a PhD in a STEM discipline and 1 year of related engineering experience
• Must have experience working with EW airborne payload systems.
• Must have an active US Government Top-Secret Clearance (with a background investigation within the past 6 years or enrolled into Continuous Evaluation).
• Ability to obtain and maintain US Government SCI clearance
• Must have the ability to obtain and maintain Special Access Program (SAP) clearance, within a reasonable amount of time as determined by business needs.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's Degree in an Engineering discipline.
• Current applicable Special Access Program (SAP) clearance.
• Active USG Top Secret SCI clearance (with a background investigation within the past 5 years or enrolled into Continuous Evaluation).
• Ability to comprehend and analyze complex problems, develop solutions, and make decisions that impact the organization’s credibility, operations, and services.
• Documented ability to interpret numerical data for reporting purposes and prepare and analyze data and figures.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate in a team environment.
• Supplier Management Experience

Primary Level Salary Range: $91,800.00 - $137,600.00

Secondary Level Salary Range: $114,000.00 - $171,000.00

The above salary range represents a general guideline; however, Northrop Grumman considers a number of factors when determining base salary offers such as the scope and responsibilities of the position and the candidate's experience, education, skills and current market conditions.

Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay. Annual bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions as well as allow employees to share in company results. Employees in Vice President or Director positions may be eligible for Long Term Incentives. In addition, Northrop Grumman provides a variety of benefits including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, savings plan, Company paid holidays and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business.

The application period for the job is estimated to be 20 days from the job posting date. However, this timeline may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates.

Northrop Grumman is an Equal Opportunity Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class. For our complete EEO and pay transparency statement, please visit http://www.northropgrumman.com/EEO. U.S. Citizenship is required for all positions with a government clearance and certain other restricted positions.