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Principal / Sr. Principal Systems Engineer

In Person (Warner Robins, Georgia, United States of America)
Full Time
$95,300 – $142,900
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Location:
Warner Robins, Georgia, United States of America

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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.

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

  • Develop and execute detailed test plans, test schedules, and test procedures.

  • Provide integration laboratory support for software release testing

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

  • Act as the primary point of contact for team-related issues and provide regular progress updates, risks and blockers to senior management.

  • Coordinate the workload and assignments of a small team, ensuring efficient execution of engineering tasks.

  • Maintain a backlog of tasks and set team priorities in a manner consistent with the program development schedule.

**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.

  • System test, analysis, and/or integration experience.

  • Experience with MATLAB or equivalent programming/analysis languages.

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

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

  • Basic understanding of Radar or EW principles.

  • 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.

  • System test, analysis, and/or integration experience

  • Experience with MATLAB or equivalent programming/analysis languages.

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

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

  • Basic understanding of Radar or EW principles.

  • 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 EW software, systems and testing.

  • Experience testing software and/or systems.

  • Experience leading test efforts and organizing test teams.

  • Experience with Hardware in the Loop testing.

  • Experience using Jira/Bitbucket/Git.

  • Experience interfacing with customers and/or stakeholders.

  • Electrical/Systems Engineering Degree

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