Northrop Grumman Australia · 3 months ago
Sr. Principal Survivability Engineer (Level 4)
Northrop Grumman Australia is a leader in Stealth Technology, seeking a Sr. Principal Survivability Engineer to join their innovative team. The role involves developing, testing, and implementing new materials and technologies to enhance the survivability of aircraft in enemy airspace, working across various engineering disciplines throughout the Systems Engineering lifecycle.
Defense & Space
Responsibilities
Use the latest classified cutting-edge technology to reduce the detectability of aircraft in the electromagnetic, infrared, visual and acoustic spectrums
Predict the performance of your design using proprietary analysis codes
Get you hand dirty and verify your prediction and the design by building and test physical models
Optimize the design for Stealth while meeting the requirement of all other engineering disciplines
Take Responsibility for achieving customer goal and balancing the design in an Integrated Product Team (IPT) environment
Thrive in a fast-paced work environment with high expectations, significantly diverse assignments, and extensive collaboration
Qualification
Required
A minimum of 3 years of demonstrated skills and knowledge in Stealth (design integration, CEM analysis, or antenna integration)
Your ability to obtain and/or transfer and maintain the final adjudicated DoD Secret clearance, and any program access(es) required for the position within a reasonable period of time, as determined by the company
Educational/ Experience Requirements: Sr. Principal Survivability Engineer: Bachelor's degree in a STEM discipline AND 8 years of related professional/military engineering experience, OR a Master's degree AND 6 years of related professional/military engineering experience, OR a Ph.D. AND 0 years of related professional/military engineering experience
Preferred
Demonstrated Knowledge and Experience using the latest classified cutting-edge technology to reduce the detectability of aircraft in the electromagnetic, infrared, visual and acoustic spectrums
Experience with Northrop Grumman proprietary computational electromagnetic analysis codes or similar computational electromagnetic analysis codes used by our competitors or customers
Complete understanding and capability to plan and implement Radio Frequency (RF) modeling and testing of complex classified targets at nations premier indoor/outdoor RCS/RF test facility
Working knowledge of the requirements of other supporting engineering disciplines to help in achieving optimization of Stealth goals and a balanced design
Strong interpersonal communication and technical writing skills to enable effective personal interaction and collaboration with a multi-disciplined team and customers
Knowledge of Applied Electromagnetics / Aircraft Survivability, and a Comprehensive understanding of Electromagnetic Energy transmission though space and within materials
The ability to post process complex electromagnetic data to identify and exploit trends to help our aircraft vanish from the RADAR screen
Master's degree in physics, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field
A current active U.S. Government in-scope DoD Top Secret security clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain Special Program Access (PAR/SAP)
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.
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageCompany data provided by crunchbase