Are you interested in exploring a career on the cutting edge of next generation circuit design? You'll leverage your current experience and join our team of scientists and engineers in design of integrated circuits for emerging applications in low temperature environments. You’ll work in a fast-paced team environment alongside a broad array of scientists and engineers to make these design solutions a reality.

The Microelectronics Designs and Applications (MDA) Business Area (BA) of Northrop Grumman Mission Systems (NGMS) is seeking motivated engineers and physicists to join our research and development design team focused on custom, low-power, low-temperature, RF, quantum, analog and mixed signal ASICs. Selected candidates will work in Northrop Grumman’s Superconducting ASIC Design team supported by our local semiconductor foundry. Candidates will be expected to contribute to knowledge transfer of mastered design techniques and/or semiconductor manufacturing/testing experience, build upon task leadership and EM simulation skills, to develop novel circuits/design techniques/best practices, and to learn systems level skills to better communicate work with different teams. Selected candidates will work closely with design leadership, product owners, fabrication teams, test teams, and theory teams, to realize strong suites of experiments to further research and development on an aggressive design schedule. All work will be performed in a Linux environment using state of the art computer aided design tools. Candidates will be exposed to many different disciplines and will have the opportunity to grow skills in these multitude of directions of the candidate’s choosing.

What you will get to do:

Learn/build upon superconducting, quantum, design, and RF EM simulation techniques. Lead ASIC chip designs to product owner specification. Would often require leading junior designers to complete this task. Document and present weekly reports on design task status. Continue to learn and develop in a unique and interesting environment. Contribute to knowledge transfer to invest in building up junior designers.

The right candidate will be comfortable in a dynamic environment with rapidly developing technologies and tools. The candidate must be comfortable with viewing previous designs to learn from and implement improvements as the MDA BA learns more about our developing technology. Successful candidates will be required to maintain an aggressive design schedule and contribute to work as a part of a team. This position will require candidates to work with product owners, design, fabrication, and test teams to assist in bringing impressive experiment ideas to reality. The most desirable candidates will be invested in continual learning and development of superconducting and quantum technologies and capabilities.

This position requires work on site in Northrop Grumman Baltimore, MD area facilities.

Sr. Principal Superconducting Circuit Design Engineer Basic Qualifications:

• BS in electrical engineering, computer engineering, physics, or a closely related field, with 8 years of experience, or MS degree with 6 years of experience, or PhD with 3 years of experience.
• Very strong attention to detail and organization.
• Mastery level experience with Cadence Virtuoso or similar IC design software.
• Experience with Linux infrastructure setup and PDK.
• Experience with 2D and 3D EM solving software such as ADS and HFSS.
• Strong problem solving, analytical, written, and oral communication skills.
• Able to collaborate with multiple team members and stakeholders to complete chip leadership tasks.
• Ability to independently take concepts and derive action items to complete assigned tasks with minimal guidance.
• Experience in mentoring junior designers.
• Can identify, provide, and own long term and long-lasting solutions for gaps in the design team.
• Able to obtain and maintain TS/SCI Clearance with CI Polygraph. US Citizenship is a requirement for this.
• Willing to work full-time on site in Baltimore Maryland.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Working knowledge of the IC design flow including schematic capture, simulation, and layout.
• An interest in superconductivity and advanced computing technology.
• Experience with Python.
• Experience in semiconductor fabrication, testing, and/or novel idea creation.
• Experience in small to medium size team leadership.
• Experience in PDK coordination and Linux infrastructure setup and maintenance.
• Active TS/SCI Clearance with CI Polygraph

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