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Northrop Grumman · 1 month ago

Staff RF Antenna Cosite Engineer

Melbourne, FL

Full-time

Onsite

Lead/Staff

$148K/yr - $222K/yr

9+ years exp

Northrop Grumman is a leader in technological advancements and is seeking a Staff RF Antenna Cosite Engineer to contribute to the development and integration of RF Subsystems. The role involves analyzing performance, managing requirements, and verifying all allocated requirements to ensure mission objectives are met.

AerospaceData IntegrationManufacturingRemote SensingSecurity

Growth Opportunities

No H1B

Security Clearance Required

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Support development and integration of communications and other RF subsystems and components to meet platform mission objectives

Requirements development, analysis, maturation and implementation translating customer requirements into derived specifications

Perform Computational Electromagnetic (CEM) antenna analysis for source/victim (co-site) analysis

Conducting detailed trade studies

Performing risk analysis and developing mitigation plans and tracking to closure

Collaborate with engineers and program stakeholders

Developing and maintaining supplier documentation, performance based specifications, and statements of work

Technical management of program strategic partners and suppliers, including development, acquisition, acceptance, qualification, system integration and test support

Review documents from the supplier’s development effort and support supplier technical interchange meetings and design reviews

Identifying/planning/executing informal and formal testing of subsystem requirements in lab, troubleshooting hardware in the lab

Performing aircraft ground and flight test on subsystems to validate and verify subsystem requirement and sell-off

Support technical discussions with the customer and having daily interaction with management, external personnel, customers, and various sub teams

Qualification

RF subsystem integrationComputational Electromagnetic analysisElectromagnetics knowledgeRF component designSystem engineering methodsSupplier managementTechnical evaluationProblem-solving skillsCommunication skillsTeam collaboration

Required

Must have a Bachelor's degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) discipline from an accredited university AND 14 years of related professional/military experience in Engineering; OR a Master's degree in a (STEM) discipline from an accredited university AND 12 years of related professional/military experience in Engineering; or a Ph.D. (STEM) AND 9 years of related professional/military experience in Engineering

Active Secret DoD Clearance

Knowledge of electromagnetics in the RF spectrum (VHF through Ka bands)

Ability to design, select and characterize RF components to meet mission objectives

Experience in Computational Electromagnetic (CEM) antenna analysis for source/victim (co-site) analysis

Experience in one or more of the following: Designing, integrating, testing, installing, operating LOS and BLOS communication systems in airborne military applications

Experience with voice, military and network waveforms

Experience with cryptographic implementations

Experience with RF antenna and component design and performance analysis

Demonstrated problem-solving ability and data analysis experience

Knowledge of system engineering design methods, including requirements analysis and flow-down, specification derivation and interface control documentation