90 applicants

Company

Northrop Grumman · 6 hours ago

Staff Engineer RF Microwave Design

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$155K/yr - $233K/yr

14+ years exp

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Responsibilities

Development of antenna architectures

Receiver / exciter architectures

Requirements generation/flow down

Subsystem analysis including hardware from RF to digits

Performance modeling

Support for performance testing

Requirements verification

Work will be performed under consultative direction toward predetermined long-range goals and objectives

Assignments are often self-initiated

Qualification

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RF/Microwave designAntenna designElectromagneticsHardware/Subsystem IntegrationModelingSimulation toolsActive electronically scanned arrays (AESAs)Receiver/ExcitersDigital Beam FormingAntenna Performance AnalysisEmbedded real time softwareTechnical Team LeadershipMATLABPythonAgile methodologiesAtlassian Tool SuiteGitFirmware development toolsAntenna MeasurementsSubsystem requirements derivation

Required

Must have a Bachelors Degree in Engineering or related discipline with 14 years of experience in the areas described in the job description or 12 years of experience with a Masters Degree and/or 9 years of experience with a Ph. D. An additional 4 years of experience will be considered in lieu of a degree.

US Citizenship is required

Active Secret Clearance.

Ability to develop highly novel solutions to a broad variety of RF/Microwave design and test related problems of complex difficulty which require the regular use of ingenuity and creativity

Established subject matter expertise in numerous areas of RF/Microwave discipline including but not limited to: Antenna, RF components & assemblies, requirements development, EM and related modeling & simulation, RF test verification, production test support, and design for producibility

Exhibit expert proficiency with industry standard RF/Microwave modeling, simulation and printed circuit board design tools (i.e. ANSYS HFSS/Maxwell, CST Microwave, Eagleware/Genesys, Keysight ADS, Xpedition, Altium, FEKO, TICRA)

Staff Engineers should have a demonstrated ability in technical and team leadership overseeing engineers with experience at least at the Sr. Principal level.

Proven knowledge of electrical engineering design software and equipment

Effective verbal and written communication skills

Ability to design, implement, install and maintain electrical systems

Technical Team Leadership

Active electronically scanned arrays (AESAs)

Receiver/Exciters

Highly integrated subsystems including antenna and receive/exciter hardware

Reflectors, Reflect Arrays, Digital Beam Forming

Antenna/RF Performance Analysis

Computational Electromagnetics, Statistics

Antenna or Subsystem Control Design

Antenna Measurements and Data Reduction