Northrop Grumman Defense Systems Sector has a need for a Staff 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:

• 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 multi-disciplinary 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.

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

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

• Provide integration laboratory support for software release testing.

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

Basic Qualifications:  

• Minimum of 12 years of direct relevant experience with B.S degree; Minimum of 10 years of direct relevant experience with Master’s degree; Minimum of 8 years of direct relevant experience with PhD.

• Experience leading engineering projects and tasking of team members.

• Experience interfacing with customers and/or stakeholders.

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

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

• Thorough understanding of Radar or EW principles.

• Experience with MATLAB or equivalent programming/analysis languages.

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

• 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 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 with Hardware in the Loop testing.

• Experience using Jira/Bitbucket/Git.

• Electrical/Systems Engineering Degree