Lead Electrical Engineer – Spaceflight Systems

Northrop Grumman; Gilbert (AZ); On-site; USD 98,000 - 148,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

Savings plan

Holidays & PTO

Job summary

Northrop Grumman’s Space Systems Sector in Gilbert, AZ seeks a Principal Electrical Engineer to lead design, analysis and verification of Command and Data Handling systems for spaceflight hardware. You will perform requirements decomposition, develop test plans, and coordinate with project teams to ensure successful delivery of breadboards, engineering models, and flight units.

The role requires an engineering degree with 5+ years of relevant experience, strong circuit design and test expertise,

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or related STEM field with 5 years of professional experience.
• Solid background in digital and analog circuit design for spaceflight applications.
• Direct related experience with schematic capture and circuit card (CCA) layout practices.
• Direct related experience with circuit analysis (WCA, PSA, FMEA, SI, timing and radiation).
• Experience developing detailed test plans and procedures to evaluate avionics hardware.
• Experience leading the design, development, and testing of breadboards, engineering models, and flight units through manufacturing and verification.
• Experience participating in and/or leading detailed design reviews.
• Experience in hardware troubleshooting and anomaly investigations for spaceflight applications.
• Lab experience that includes testing and working with test equipment.

Responsibilities

• Apply standards and principles to NGSS hardware design and testing.
• Interact with stakeholders to determine electrical interfaces and operating characteristics.
• Develop bench-level verification procedures, specifications and test limits for breadboard, engineering model and flight hardware.
• Execute, support and monitor hardware testing and troubleshooting with minimal oversight.
• Provide technical solutions to a variety of engineering issues of increasing scope.
• Coordinate with engineering leads, test conductors/technicians and I&T personnel for board/box assemblies.
• Prepare materials for program reviews (ERBs, FRBs, TRRs, PDRs, CDRs).
• Generate performance specifications and design review packages for flight hardware.
• Decompose system requirements down to avionics box, circuit card and FPGA levels.
• Provide inputs for technical, cost and schedule performance assessments.
• Work within a diverse multi-discipline engineering team and communicate findings clearly.

Skills

Circuit Design

Schematic Capture

Test & Verification

Hardware Troubleshooting

Cross-functional Collaboration

Education

Electrical Engineering (B.S.) or related STEM

M.S. in Electrical Engineering

PhD in Electrical Engineering

Tools

DOORS

Python scripting

Perl scripting

FPGA Design Tools

Job description

Northrop Grumman’s Space Systems Sector in Gilbert, AZ seeks a Principal Electrical Engineer to lead design, analysis and verification of Command and Data Handling systems for spaceflight hardware. You will perform requirements decomposition, develop test plans, and coordinate with project teams to ensure successful delivery of breadboards, engineering models, and flight units.

The role requires an engineering degree with 5+ years of relevant experience, strong circuit design and test expertise,