Principal Signals Processing Systems Engineer

0090 CORP-Corporate Office; United States; On-site; USD 91,800 - 171,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health plan

Savings plan

Paid time off

Education assistance

Training and development

9/80 schedule

Job summary

Northrop Grumman Mission Systems seeks a Systems Engineer or Principal Systems Engineer with a Signal Processing background in Sacramento, CA. You will help develop transformative signal processing solutions for SIGINT, working with SDRs, GPUs, and UWB software-defined radios.

Role involves architecture trades, algorithm design, and deployment across platforms; candidates should have core communications concepts and the ability to translate requirements into systems terms.

Qualifications

• BS in STEM with 2 years relevant experience or MS in a STEM field.
• Willing and able to obtain and maintain a Top Secret with SCI clearance.
• Understanding of SIGINT operations, military capabilities, and geolocation concepts.
• Ability to translate complex operational needs into technical system requirements.
• DSP fundamentals: Modulation/demodulation, FFT/spectral analysis, filtering, resampling, channelization, and detection/estimation theory.
• SIGINT/RF fundamentals: SDR, RF front-ends, IQ data, geolocation techniques (DF/beamforming).
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Top Secret/SCI security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Perform architecture trades, design analysis, and performance modeling.
• Provide engineering support for hardware development efforts.
• Design detection and characterization algorithms for RF signals.
• Implement detection and characterization algorithms.
• Test signal processing algorithms and receivers in a lab environment.
• Design, test, and produce detection, characterization, and geolocation algorithms.
• Support deployment of core products on new platforms (aircraft, drones, ships).

Skills

Signal processing

DSP fundamentals

Geolocation concepts

SDR experience

C++/Python/Rust

Agile/DevOps

CUDA

Education

BS in STEM

MS in STEM

PhD in STEM

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Bitbucket

Docker

Kubernetes

CUDA

Job description

Northrop Grumman Mission Systems seeks a Systems Engineer or Principal Systems Engineer with a Signal Processing background in Sacramento, CA. You will help develop transformative signal processing solutions for SIGINT, working with SDRs, GPUs, and UWB software-defined radios.

Role involves architecture trades, algorithm design, and deployment across platforms; candidates should have core communications concepts and the ability to translate requirements into systems terms.