RF Systems I&T Engineer — Radar & Sensor Integration

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

Company paid holidays

PTO

Job summary

Northrop Grumman is seeking a Systems Engineer for Integration & Test (I&T) to lead the integration, troubleshooting, and testing of RF sensor systems on advanced defense platforms. The role involves working with software, firmware, and hardware teams, developing test capabilities, and ensuring data quality across multi-disciplinary workstreams.

Required DoD Secret clearance or ability to obtain SAP, a STEM degree, and experience with RF lab equipment, MATLAB, and scripting.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with 2 years of experience, or a Master’s degree in a STEM discipline.
• 4 additional years in lieu of a degree
• Active DoD Secret clearance and the ability to obtain/maintain Special Program Access (SAP) prior to start is required.
• Experience with RF lab test equipment: i.e. signal generator, oscilloscope, spectrum analyzer, etc.
• Experience troubleshooting and resolving HW/SW/FW integration problems
• Experience coding in MATLAB to support coding, test scripting, data analysis, and signal processing
• Experience working in a multi-disciplinary team environment
• Experience working a system bench, running acceptance test plans, writing test reports, troubleshooting hardware and software, communicating status updates.
• Experience with Environmental, EMI/EMC integration and testing
• Willingness to work 2nd shift work
• Ability to work onsite full-time in Baltimore, MD

Responsibilities

• Integration, troubleshooting, and testing RF sensor systems
• Support integration environment development and establishment (Labs)
• Collaborate with software, firmware, and hardware teams to understand expected unit level and system level behavior to define test cases and define & develop test capabilities that exercise and stress respective software and hardware capabilities.
• Collaborate with software, firmware, and hardware subject matter experts to ensure testing produces expected data points.
• Support the development and maintenance of system integration plans and system test plans.

Skills

MATLAB coding

Team collaboration

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in STEM

Master's degree in STEM

Tools

MATLAB

Python

Job description

Northrop Grumman is seeking a Systems Engineer for Integration & Test (I&T) to lead the integration, troubleshooting, and testing of RF sensor systems on advanced defense platforms. The role involves working with software, firmware, and hardware teams, developing test capabilities, and ensuring data quality across multi-disciplinary workstreams.

Required DoD Secret clearance or ability to obtain SAP, a STEM degree, and experience with RF lab equipment, MATLAB, and scripting.