Northrop Grumman Australia · 2 months ago
Principal/Sr. Principal Digital Design Engineer
United States-Illinois-Rolling Meadows
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$105K/yr - $197K/yr
5+ years expNorthrop Grumman is a trusted provider of mission-enabling solutions for global security, focusing on revolutionary systems that impact lives around the world. The Principal/Sr. Principal Digital Design Engineer role involves full life-cycle product development, including design, implementation, test verification, and production, specifically for digital electronics and subsystems in the context of Electronic Warfare and targeting systems.
Defense & Space
No H1B
Security Clearance RequiredU.S. Citizen Only
Responsibilities
Full life-cycle product development from system concept and requirements through design, implementation, test verification, production, and field support while working in integrated product teams spanning Engineering, Manufacturing, and Program Management
Digital subsystem and circuit card designs utilizing the latest FPGA technologies from all major vendors and device families including Xilinx, Altera, and Actel, supporting high speed interfaces, Radio Frequency (RF) and Electro-Optical (EO) DSP, controls, data links, embedded processing and processor interfaces
Qualification
Required
Bachelors' degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or similar engineering discipline with a minimum 5 years of digital electronics design experience or a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or similar engineering discipline and 3 years of digital electronics design experience
Digital circuit design experience, including simulation & schematic capture through test and integration
Prior hands-on prototyping and debug experience testing complex digital subsystems, such as complex circuit card development involving FPGAs, and/or embedded processors, and/or high-speed interfaces
Demonstrated ability to lead projects with 2 or less team members
Demonstrated ability to translate system performance and operational specifications into hardware requirements, design, and test specifications
Familiarity with documentation revision control and review systems similar to DOORS, ClearCase, and ClearQuest
US Citizen
Ability to obtain and maintain a Secret security clearance
Bachelors' degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or similar engineering discipline with a minimum 8 years of digital electronics design experience or a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or similar engineering discipline and 6 years of digital electronics design experience
Extensive digital circuit design experience, including simulation & schematic capture through test and integration
Extensive hands-on prototyping and debug experience testing complex digital subsystems, such as complex circuit card development involving FPGAs, and/or embedded processors, and/or high-speed interfaces
Demonstrated ability to lead projects with 2 or more team members
Demonstrated ability to translate system performance and operational specifications into hardware requirements, design, and test specifications
Familiarity with documentation, revision control and review systems similar to DOORS, ClearCase, and ClearQuest
US Citizen
Ability to obtain and maintain a Secret security clearance
Preferred
Advanced degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering with a minimum 10 years of digital electronics design experience
Working knowledge of Electronic Warfare systems
Experience in Aerospace and/or Defense industries
Recent circuit card design experience utilizing circuit-related tools including Cadence Concept, Allegro, and/or Mentor DxDesigner, Expedition
Working experience with ClearCase/ClearQuest and DOORS Current Secret or Top-Secret Security Clearance
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 enjoying solving difficult problems
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