Northrop Grumman Australia · 3 months ago
Principal/Sr. Principal Power Supply Engineer
United States-Illinois-Rolling Meadows
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$105K/yr - $158K/yr
5+ years expNorthrop Grumman Australia is a leading provider of mission-enabling solutions for global security. They are seeking a Principal/Sr. Principal Power Supply Engineer to design and develop high efficiency power conversion architectures and support various applications, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements and maintaining documentation throughout the product life cycle.
Defense & Space
No H1B
Security Clearance RequiredU.S. Citizen Only
Responsibilities
Design and develop power conversion architectures using the latest technologies from Linear Technology, Texas Instruments, and other integrated circuit device manufacturers to support applications: gigabit serial interfaces, Radio Frequency (RF) and Electro-Optical (EO) DSP, controls, data links, and embedded processing platforms
Work with system, sub-system, and hardware engineers to develop requirements, architect new circuit design topologies, and printed wiring board layouts
Verify designs through spice simulation, laboratory verification, and formal qualification to electrical and mechanical environmental requirements, electromagnetic environmental effects (E3) requirements and EMI/EMC compliance requirements
Provide continuous design support from requirements definition through integration and test; and maintain design documentation and configuration management throughout the product life cycle
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, Computer Engineering, or similar engineering discipline with a minimum 5 years of power electronics design experience or 3 years of power electronics design experience with a master's degree in electrical engineering, Computer Engineering, or similar engineering discipline
Switch Mode Power Supply circuit design experience, including schematic capture through test and integration
Hands-on prototyping and debug experience testing complex power systems, including various switch-mode topologies and linear regulators
Ability to translate system performance and operational specifications into hardware requirements, design, and test specifications
Demonstrated ability to lead projects with 2 or more team members
Familiarity with documentation, revision control and review systems like DOORS, ClearCase and ClearQuest
Proven skills to include team leadership, mentoring others, communicating with all levels of an organization internally and externally, being adaptable, creative, collaborative, and comfortable working independently and enjoys solving difficult problems
US Citizen and ability to obtain and maintain a DoD Secret security clearance
Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, Computer Engineering, or similar engineering discipline with a minimum of 8 years of power electronics design experience or 6 years of power electronics design experience with a master's degree in electrical engineering, Computer Engineering or similar engineering discipline
Switch Mode Power Supply circuit design experience, including schematic capture through test and integration
Hands-on prototyping and debug experience testing complex power systems, including various switch-mode topologies and linear regulators
Ability to translate system performance and operational specifications into hardware requirements, design, and test specifications
Demonstrated ability to lead projects with 2 or more team members
Familiarity with documentation, revision control and review systems like DOORS, ClearCase and ClearQuest
Proven skills to include team leadership, mentoring others, communicating with all levels of an organization internally and externally, being adaptable, creative, collaborative, and also comfortable working independently and enjoys solving difficult problems
US Citizen and ability to obtain and maintain a DoD Secret security clearance
Preferred
An advanced degree in Electrical Engineering, focused on Power Conversion, with a minimum 5 years of power electronics design experience
Working knowledge of Electronic Warfare system/hardware
Recent power supply design experience utilizing circuit-related tools including Cadence Concept/Allegro, and LTSPICE
Working knowledge of designing high frequency magnetics including transformers, coupled inductors, EMI chokes and common mode filters
Working experience with documentation, revision control and review systems similar to DOORS, ClearCase, and ClearQuest
Proven skills to include project planning, communicating with all levels of an organization, adaptable, creative, collaborative, and comfortable working independently
Current Secret or Top-Secret Security Clearance
Benefits
Health insurance coverage
Life and disability insurance
Savings plan
Company paid holidays
Paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business
Company
Northrop Grumman Australia
Northrop Grumman Australia is the Australia-based arm of Northrop Grumman Corporation and committed to generating long-term prosperity, investing in advanced Research & Development, sovereign and exportable Intellectual Property, high-quality jobs and long-term technology leadership across the Commonwealth.
501-1000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageCompany data provided by crunchbase