Principal or Sr. Principal RF Systems Integration Electronics Engineer
- Location:
- Nashua, New Hampshire, United States of America
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Be part of Northrop Grumman's dynamic Field Engineering team in Buffalo, NY. We have an immediate opportunity available for a Principal or Sr. Principal RF Systems Integration Electronics Engineer. Candidate must be a highly motivated self-starter who demonstrates the ability to manipulate bench software to diagnose hardware issues, troubleshoot primarily hardware issues and some software in order to provide technical support and resolve system level problems reported by the customer on delivered hardware. This position is in Nashua, NH with additional travel required locally in Manchester, NH. Position may at times require 10% travel per year to other locations outside of NH. There will be up to a month of training in Buffalo, NY.
Roles & Responsibilities:
- Installs, operates, maintains, repairs, and modifies equipment.
- Perform a variety of maintenance and technical support on products such as equipment, integrated systems and subsystems, and software at customer and/or field locations.
- Analyze and evaluates products and related performance. Troubleshoots and diagnoses malfunctions to eliminate problem in minimum time.
- Utilize knowledge, special test equipment (STE), and instrumented data to troubleshoot/repair hardware failures.
- Install, upgrades, and removes products ensuring coordinative engineering field change.
- Maintains effective customer communications and relations.
- May provide onsite training of customer support personnel.
- Maintain effective customer communications, interact independently with customers, and ensure coordinative engineering field changes.
- Will be responsible for generating weekly status reports documenting test events and anomalies warranting further investigation for both customers and internal management
- Will start as first shift, then transition to second shift.
Basic Qualifications for a Principal RF Systems Integration Electronics Engineer:
- Bachelors Degree in a STEM related field and a minimum of 5 years related experience, or a Masters Degree in a STEM related field and a minimum of 3 years related experience.
- Ability up to 10% travel domestically if needed.
- Electronic and/or RF experience
- Must have an active Department of Defense (DoD) Secret clearance with investigation within 5 years. Minimum of Secret clearance required to start. Must be able to obtain and maintain Top Secret clearance and Special Program Access for continued employment
- Ability to frequently move and position objects weighing 50 lbs.
- Must be able to work 2nd shift
Basic Qualifications for a Sr. Principal RF Systems Integration Electronics Engineer:
- Bachelors Degree in a STEM related field and a minimum of 8 years related experience, or a Masters Degree in a STEM related field and a minimum of 6 years related experience.
- Ability up to 10% travel domestically if needed.
- Electronic and/or RF experience
- Must have an active Department of Defense (DoD) Secret clearance with investigation within 5 years. Minimum of Secret clearance required to start. Must be able to obtain and maintain Top Secret clearance and Special Program Access for continued employment
- Ability to frequently move and position objects weighing 50 lbs.
- Must be able to work 2nd shift
Preferred Qualifications:
- U.S. military electronic school in electronic warfare and/or radar
- Active Top-Secret Clearance.
- Electronic Warfare experience
- Unix/Linux experience in terms of command line use
- High degree of aptitude in hardware troubleshooting
- Test Equipment experience such as oscilloscope, spectrum analyzer, Wireshark, and power meter is desired