Northrop Grumman Defense Systems Sector has a need for a Principal or Sr Principal Systems Engineer at its Subsystem and Software Sustainment (S&SS) organization in Warner Robins, GA. This engineering position is for a role on our Systems Engineering Team. In this role you will be supporting Electronic Warfare and Radar Development programs. Our ideal candidate will possess technical expertise, a drive to lead from where you are, collaborative people skills, and the proven ability to work within a technically diverse and fast-paced team. This position is in Warner Robins, GA and requires that you work on-site daily.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Perform hands-on integration and testing of sophisticated Electronic Warfare and Radar systems, including both hardware and software components in development and production environments.

• Develop firmware for test stations and integrate station hardware.

• Generate and update system and sub-system level specifications and ensure verification traceability (tracing requirements to test plans/procedures/results).

• Use modeling and simulation tools to expedite testing of individual units before all system components are available and for troubleshooting and repair of failed units.

• Model and simulate real-time system operational environments and develop software that represent projected system behavior.

• Participate in the development and execution of comprehensive test plans, procedures, and schedules for verifying system requirements.

• Review and evaluate test requirements to ensure completeness of test program.

• Perform analysis of test results and prepare comprehensive reports.

• Foster team collaboration to solve complex engineering problems and ensure project milestones are achieved.

• Identify and implement process improvements within the team to enhance productivity and quality of deliverables.

**This position may be filled at the Principal Engineer Systems OR Sr. Principal Engineer Systems level.

Basic Qualifications for Principal Engineer Systems:  

• Minimum of 5 years of direct relevant experience with B.S degree; Minimum of 3 years of direct relevant experience with Master’s degree; Minimum of 1 years of direct relevant experience with PhD.

• Proficient in firmware development, MATLAB, Simulink, VHDL Coder, etc.

• Basic understanding of Radar or EW principles.

• Experience with lab test equipment such as function generator, oscilloscope, multi-meter, spectrum analyzers, etc.

• Experience troubleshooting and resolving complex HW/SW integration problems.

• Knowledge of embedded systems design and implementation.

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

• Must currently hold or be able to obtain and maintain a U.S Department of Defense (DoD) Secret level security clearance.

Basic Qualifications for Sr. Principal Engineer Systems:  

• Minimum of 9 years of direct relevant experience with B.S degree; Minimum of 7 years of direct relevant experience with Master’s degree; Minimum of 5 years of direct relevant experience with PhD.

• Proficient in firmware development, MATLAB, Simulink, VHDL Coder, etc.

• Basic understanding of Radar or EW principles.

• Experience with lab test equipment such as function generator, oscilloscope, multi-meter, spectrum analyzers, etc.

• Experience troubleshooting and resolving complex HW/SW integration problems.

• Knowledge of embedded systems design and implementation.

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

• Must currently hold or be able to obtain and maintain a U.S Department of Defense (DoD) Secret level security clearance.
   

Preferred Qualifications:

• Prior professional experience either in Radar or Electronic Warfare, or prior professional experience in immediately transferrable domain skills such as digital signal processing, digital beamforming, adaptive processing, or tracking algorithms.

• Experience developing system simulation frameworks, performance models and algorithms, threat models, and command and control models.

• Experience in development, integration and testing of large-scale systems.

• Experience with deriving system/software requirements and developing test plans and procedures.

• Experience in aviation and/or Department of Defense programs.

• Proficient with RF test equipment.

• Experience with VxWorks/pSOS RTOS.

• Experience with MIL-STD-1553.

• Experience with Hardware in the Loop testing.

• Experience using Jira/Bitbucket/Git.

• Electrical Engineering Degree