Senior Principal RF Systems Engineer – Top Secret Lead

Northrop Grumman Corp. (AU); Cincinnati (OH); On-site; USD 129,000 - 194,000; Full time

Job summary

Northrop Grumman – Cincinnati (aka Xetron) seeks a Senior Principal Systems Engineer to lead RF sensor and collection systems development. You will guide design, integration, and testing, serving as the primary liaison with customers and cross-functional teams.

Ideal candidates bring strong engineering breadth, hands-on RF hardware design experience, and proven leadership in delivering deployable solutions for defense programs. US citizenship and active clearance are required.

Qualifications

• Breadth and depth across engineering with deployable RF products.
• Experience extracting derived requirements and generating system architectures from ConOps.
• Direct interaction with end customers on technical reviews and documentation.

Responsibilities

• Lead design efforts to produce deployable RF sensors and collection systems.
• Act as primary contact for external customer and internal team.
• Oversee design, development, integration and test of RF hardware.
• Collaborate across engineering teams to verify requirements and solutions.

Skills

RF sensors

RF hardware

ConOps requirements

Customer interface

Reliability & maintainability

Education

Bachelor of Science in Engineering

Master of Science

PhD

Tools

Cameo

MATLAB

Job description

Northrop Grumman – Cincinnati (aka Xetron) seeks a Senior Principal Systems Engineer to lead RF sensor and collection systems development. You will guide design, integration, and testing, serving as the primary liaison with customers and cross-functional teams.

Ideal candidates bring strong engineering breadth, hands-on RF hardware design experience, and proven leadership in delivering deployable solutions for defense programs. US citizenship and active clearance are required.