EO/IR Laser Engineer

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: Yes

CLEARANCE TYPE: Secret

TRAVEL: Yes, 50% of the Time

Description

At Northrop Grumman, our employees have incredible opportunities to work on revolutionary systems that impact people's lives around the world today, and for generations to come. Our pioneering and inventive spirit has enabled us to be at the forefront of many technological advancements in our nation's history - from the first flight across the Atlantic Ocean, to stealth bombers, to landing on the moon. We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage and a pioneering spirit to join forces to invent the future, and have fun along the way. Our culture thrives on intellectual curiosity, cognitive diversity and bringing your whole self to work — and we have an insatiable drive to do what others think is impossible. Our employees are not only part of history, they're making history.

Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems has an opening for an EO/IR Laser Engineer to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals. This position will be located in Melbourne, FL.  The EO/IR engineer reports to the Strategic Development (SD) Lead and is responsible for hardware/software integration and test in the laboratory, test bed and planeside.  The EO/IR Engineer assists with planning, coordination, and analysis supporting development, integration, test, production, and flight test.

The selected candidate will be required to work full-time, on-site at our facility.  There is NO remote / hybrid / telework available for this position.  Travel up to 50% may be required

Role and Responsibilities may include:

• Demonstrate technical understanding in the field of EO/IR Lasers and Sensors related disciplines.

• Have effective communication skills and a demonstrated ability to clearly and concisely present technical approaches and findings. 

• Collaborate with technical leadership on system requirements generation and associated flow down, subsystem design/analysis, and subsystem performance verification including lab and range testing.

• Support any stage of the aircraft system life cycle activity such as developing primary designs, integrating into a system, supporting fielding of the system, supporting airworthiness activity, and supporting testing of the systems. 

• Coordinate and collaborate with relevant stakeholders to ensure robust and maintainable configurations are produced.

• Attend internal program, customer and/or supplier technical exchange meetings and/or formal program milestone reviews to provide and/or obtain progress status updates.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) discipline and 2 years of electrical engineering experience Or Master’s Degree in STEM and 0 years of experience

• Experience creating analysis tools with MATLAB or Python in the BQ

• Experience with Integration and Test campaigns

• Must have an Active US Government Secret Clearance (with a background investigation within the past 6 years or enrolled into Continuous Evaluation).

• Must have the ability to obtain and maintain Special Access Program (SAP) clearance, within a reasonable amount of time as determined by business needs

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with:

  • Optical test equipment,

  • Metrology related to optical sensing and laser characterization including power, energy, and pulse-width

  • IR Cameras from the SWIR band through LWIR

  • Optical alignment techniques for characterizing laser boresight in the near and far-field

  • Measuring laser beam spot size and divergence

  • Spectrometer operation, signal generation and verification with an oscilloscope, photodetectors, optical table construction with Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) hardware

  • IR material selection

  • Safe use and operation of Class IV lasers

• Bachelor’s Degree in Optical/Laser Engineering Or Master’s Degree in Optical/Laser Engineering

• Ability to obtain a DoD Top Secret security clearance

• Experience with Matlab, Zemax, Atlassian SW suite, labview

• Experience with Root Cause Corrective Action (RCCA)

• Experience with ruggedization of opto-mechanical systems with low SWaP

• Familiarity with nonlinear optics and harmonic generation

• Integration of optical and sensor subsystems components into various types of aircraft applications.  

• Performing integration related tasks in the lab

Primary Level Salary Range: $79,300.00 - $118,900.00

The above salary range represents a general guideline; however, Northrop Grumman considers a number of factors when determining base salary offers such as the scope and responsibilities of the position and the candidate's experience, education, skills and current market conditions.

Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay. Annual bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions as well as allow employees to share in company results. Employees in Vice President or Director positions may be eligible for Long Term Incentives. In addition, Northrop Grumman provides a variety of benefits including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, savings plan, Company paid holidays and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business.

The application period for the job is estimated to be 20 days from the job posting date. However, this timeline may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates.

Northrop Grumman is an Equal Opportunity Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class. For our complete EEO and pay transparency statement, please visit http://www.northropgrumman.com/EEO. U.S. Citizenship is required for all positions with a government clearance and certain other restricted positions.