Power Design Engineer — High-Impact, Secret Clearance

0090 CORP-Corporate Office; United States; On-site; USD 88,000 - 131,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Life and disability insurance

Savings plan

Holidays and PTO

Job summary

Northrop Grumman is seeking a Power Design Engineer in Rolling Meadows, IL, to lead full life-cycle power design for RF/EO and imaging systems. The role covers concept-to-production development, from initial requirements through testing and qualification, with close collaboration across system, hardware, and software teams.

The position requires a bachelor’s or higher in electrical/computer engineering, hands-on power electronics experience, and US citizenship with DoD Secret clearance

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or similar engineering discipline with a minimum 2 years of power electronics design experience or a master’s degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or similar engineering discipline.
• Switch Mode Power Supply circuit design experience, including schematic capture through test and integration.
• Hands-on prototyping and debug experience testing complex power systems, including various switch-mode topologies and linear regulators.
• Ability to translate system performance and operational specifications into hardware requirements, design, and test specifications.
• Demonstrated ability to lead projects with 2 or more team members.
• Familiarity with documentation, revision control and review systems like DOORS, ClearCase and ClearQuest.
• Proven skills to include team leadership, mentoring others, communicating with all levels of an organization internally and externally, being adaptable, creative, collaborative, and comfortable working independently and enjoys solving difficult problems.
• US Citizenship
• Must have DoD Secret security clearance prior to start.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop power conversion architectures for RF, IRCM, and imaging systems.
• Create subsystem/module designs for COTS and MIL-STD interfaces.
• Ensure regulatory compliance to DoD requirements (MIL-STD-704, 461, 464 & DO-160, TEMPEST).
• Lead cross-functional teams from concept through qualification and production.

Job description

Northrop Grumman is seeking a Power Design Engineer in Rolling Meadows, IL, to lead full life-cycle power design for RF/EO and imaging systems. The role covers concept-to-production development, from initial requirements through testing and qualification, with close collaboration across system, hardware, and software teams.

The position requires a bachelor’s or higher in electrical/computer engineering, hands-on power electronics experience, and US citizenship with DoD Secret clearance