Principal Engineer, Survivability Systems

0090 CORP-Corporate Office; United States; On-site; USD 125,000 - 235,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Life and disability insurance

Savings plan

Paid holidays and PTO

Job summary

Northrop Grumman in California seeks a Principal/Senior Principal Engineer – Survivability to advance design, modeling, and testing across EM, IR, VIS, and Acoustic spectrums. You will coordinate with multiple engineering teams to ensure compliance and transfer knowledge to supportable designs.

Responsibilities include test planning, analyzing results, and liaising with suppliers. A Secret clearance is required or in-scope, with travel up to 25% and opportunities across Palmdale or San Diego

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in STEM with 5+ years of related engineering experience or advanced degrees with fewer years.
• Experience in Survivability sub-disciplines across RF/IR/Vis/Acoustic spectrums including design, analysis, and test.
• Familiarity with measurement, integration, and test, and liaison engineering.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate with designers to ensure component and system compliance with Survivability requirements.
• Develop and integrate advanced technology to reduce system detectability.
• Design, plan, and execute RCS/RF tests (Tier 0–3) and deliver pre/post test reports.
• Analyze test results and provide recommendations on materials and capabilities.

Skills

Survivability knowledge

RF/IR/Vis/AcoUSTIC understanding

Signature design & analysis

Test planning & execution

Python/C/C++/MATLAB programming

Education

Bachelor's Degree in STEM

Master's degree in STEM

PhD in STEM

Tools

Knowbell

Saber

SENTRi

CATIA/NX CAD

Job description

Northrop Grumman in California seeks a Principal/Senior Principal Engineer – Survivability to advance design, modeling, and testing across EM, IR, VIS, and Acoustic spectrums. You will coordinate with multiple engineering teams to ensure compliance and transfer knowledge to supportable designs.

Responsibilities include test planning, analyzing results, and liaising with suppliers. A Secret clearance is required or in-scope, with travel up to 25% and opportunities across Palmdale or San Diego