Northrop Grumman · 3 months ago
Electrical Engineer: Electrical Systems and C&DH - Level 4
VA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$137K/yr - $206K/yr
9+ years expNorthrop Grumman is a leader in technological advancements, seeking a technical leader for their Electrical Systems and Command & Data Handling (C&DH) Subsystem Engineer role. The position involves providing support for networking setup and maintenance, collaborating with various engineering teams, and ensuring compliance of electrical systems throughout the development lifecycle.
AerospaceData IntegrationManufacturingRemote SensingSecurity
Responsibilities
Provides technical coordination of vendors and suppliers. Review suppliers “as-planned”, “as-designed”, and “as-built” documentation (e.g. interface control document, derating analysis, worst case analysis, qualification test plan and procedure, acceptance test plan and procedure, test report)
Performs requirement analysis and decomposition of customer requirements into hardware and software specifications and establish subsystem or system-level electrical verification method and plans
Performs analyses to evaluate all levels of the system to ensure a cohesive electrical-system solution throughout the development lifecycle (concept, design, fabrication, test, installation, operation, maintenance, and disposal)
Perform electrical interface compatibility verifications and verify electrical connectivity implementation (e.g. verify electrical harness implementation, safety-critical circuit segregation, support peer-reviews)
Oversees the technical planning, design integration, product integration, verification, and validation efforts for the CDH electrical-system elements throughout the development lifecycle. Influences the electrical-system design to facilitate electrical testing at the component, subsystem, and flight-vehicle levels, with the aim to enable automated testing where applicable
Identify Electrical Systems and C&DH risks, develop risk mitigation plans for selected risks, and implement mitigations
Contribute to assembly integration and test activities (e.g. electrical test requirements development, anomaly investigations/resolutions)
Interfacing with design and manufacturing groups to monitor component production process/progress to include Integration & Test (I&T) and relaying that status to management along with potential solutions to stay on target
Provide technical oversight to ensure the C&DH electrical system is compliant and verifiable at the avionics digital and analog telemetry level
Candidate must be comfortable with managing program execution from a Technical perspective, meeting deadlines, working on multiple projects concurrently, and working with various engineering disciplines and internal/external customers as required
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree or higher in a STEM area (preferably Electrical Engineering) and 9 years of relevant work experience, 7 years of relevant work experience with a Master's degree, or 4 years of relevant work experience with a PhD
Technical experience with IP Layer 3 / Layer 2 Networking setup and maintenance
Experience with spaceflight hardware
Experience in project management with software deliverables
Experience with creating and tracking schedules using project tracking tools such as Microsoft project
Experience interfacing with external suppliers
Strong verbal and written communications skills, proactive, customer oriented, and ability to identify priorities
Preferred
Experience leading teams of engineers managing resources and schedules
Experience with requirements tracking tool such as DOORS or CAMEO
Digital design experience
Strong verbal and written communications skills, proactive, customer oriented, and ability to identify priorities
Experience with EVMS and creating variance reports
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
Northrop Grumman is an aerospace, defense and security company that provides training and satellite ground network communications software.
10001+ employees
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$3.7BKey Investors
U.S. Department of DefenseNASA
2025-05-27Post Ipo Debt· $1B
2024-01-29Post Ipo Debt· $2.5B
2023-12-20Grant· $72M
Leadership Team
Tom Wilson
Corporate Vice President, Enterprise Business Development
Jeffrey Worsham
Chief Product Owner - Advanced Technology Development
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