Sr Principal Engineer Digital

Northrop Grumman; Manhattan Beach (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance coverage

Life and disability insurance

Paid time off

Discretionary bonus

Long-term incentives for executive roles

Job summary

Northrop Grumman is seeking a Sr. Principal Engineer Digital for their Digital Products Department in Manhattan Beach, CA. This role involves developing and integrating complex digital hardware for spacecraft, leveraging extensive design engineering experience.

The successful candidate will have at least 8 years of experience in digital engineering, strong skills in circuit design, and the ability to work within a team-focused environment. Competitive benefits including health insurance and paid time off are offered.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of relevant experience in digital engineering, or 6+ years with a Master's degree, or 4+ years with a PhD.
• Experience in various areas of design engineering.
• Capable of obtaining and maintaining security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Develop conceptual designs.
• Create circuit designs and analysis.
• Develop unit level architecture and test.
• Implement design verification.
• Support test systems for spacecraft flight programs.

Skills

Circuit design and analysis

Digital communications

Digital signal processing

Hardware troubleshooting

Team collaboration

Excellent communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in STEM with 8+ years experience or a Master's with 6+ years or a PhD with 4+ years

Tools

Siemens Mentor Graphics Xpedition

Siemens EDA tools (HyperLynx)

Job description

At Northrop Grumman, our employees have incredible opportunities to work on revolutionary systems that impact people's lives around the world today, and for generations to come. Our pioneering and inventive spirit has enabled us to be at the forefront of many technological advancements in our nation's history - from the first flight across the Atlantic Ocean, to stealth bombers, to landing on the moon. We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage and a pioneering spirit to join forces to invent the future, and have fun along the way. Our culture thrives on intellectual curiosity, cognitive diversity and bringing your whole self to work — and we have an insatiable drive to do what others think is impossible. Our employees are not only part of history, they're making history.

Are you ready to take your career to the next level by challenging your knowledge and expertise of digital products? If your passion lies within Design Engineering and creating new digital products end to end, keep reading.

The Digital Products Department (part of NG Strategic Space Systems) in Manhattan Beach, CA is seeking a talented Sr. Principal Engineer Digital. This person will be required to develop, test, and integrate complex digital hardware and support test systems for spacecraft flight programs, and may need system and unit verification experience to perform adequately in programs.

Please be aware that this position will also be contingent upon capturing program award and obtaining customer funding.

Responsibilities

• Develop conceptual designs.
• Create circuit designs and analysis.
• Develop unit level architecture, manufacturing, assembly, and test.
• Unit level verification.
• Design verification.

We also provide opportunities to support other areas of interest within digital engineering as they become available.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a STEM field with 8+ years of relevant experience in digital engineering, or Master's degree with 6+ years of relevant experience, or 4+ years of experience with a PhD.
• Design engineering experience in one or more of the following areas: circuit design and analysis, digital communications, digital signal processing, digital board design, digital board/unit verification.
• Experience working in an engineering environment dealing with design, manufacturing, and hardware troubleshooting.
• Experience in different stages of design reviews.
• The ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance and/or program access.
• Experience working in a team environment.
• Excellent communication and writing skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• STEM Master's degree in electrical engineering or computer engineering.
• Hands-on lab experience.
• 8+ years of design engineering experience in space flight hardware or programs.
• Experience in network routing and/or switching applications.
• Embedded processors.
• Unit level verification experience of digital hardware for aerospace application.
• Experience with digital engineering analysis such as power distribution, timing, interface compatibility, signal integrity and derating/stress.
• Experience with PCB layout and tools (Siemens Mentor Graphics Xpedition design flows).
• Experience with analysis using Siemens EDA tools (HyperLynx).

Benefits include: health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, savings plan, company paid holidays, paid time off for vacation and personal business, eligibility for overtime, shift differential, discretionary bonus, and long-term incentives for executive roles.

Northrop Grumman is an Equal Opportunity Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class. For our complete EEO and pay transparency statement, please visit http://www.northropgrumman.com/EEO. U.S. Citizenship is required for all positions with a government clearance and certain other restricted positions.