Engineer RF Microwave Design

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RF Microwave/Mixed Signal Design Engineer

Northrop Grumman Mission Systems sector delivers a decisive advantage to its customers through software-defined, hardware-enabled solutions. Northrop Grumman Mission Systems (NGMS) in Linthicum enables these hardware solutions by providing RF microwave and mixed signal architecture, design, verification, and support expertise across a wide variety electronic sensor products. Our engineers work on complex, leading edge, high reliability electronics supporting maritime, ground, airborne, and space platforms.

AMS E&S is seeking engineers with experience and interest in electronic assembly and packaging design including:

1. Designing, modeling, and verifying RF, microwave, and mixed signal subsystem assemblies
2. Utilizing analysis, simulations and prototyping to develop antenna designs including phased arrays
3. Deriving and trading requirements with subsystem engineers and component level designers
4. Managing RF budgets, frequency planning, and common assembly level interfaces
5. Predicting assembly level performance through selecting materials, components, and packaging approaches, RF chain analysis, electromagnetic simulation, data collection and analysis, and other modeling techniques
6. Working directly with component level design peers developing custom RF integrated circuit designs to meet assembly-level requirements
7. Collaborating with peer functions such as Mechanical, Manufacturing, Quality, Supply Chain, and Test
8. Utilizing world class manufacturing capabilities for prototyping through full rate production
9. Working directly with a wide variety of different external supplier partners
10. Supporting products throughout the product life cycle

Basic Qualifications:

1. Electrical Engineering or related STEM field degree: Bachelor of Science with 2 years of RF/microwave experience or Master's degree; or equivalent experience.
2. Demonstrate problem solving skills to a variety of RF/Microwave design and test related problems of increasing scope and complexity as assigned
3. Exhibit working proficiency with industry standard RF/Microwave modeling, simulation and printed circuit board design tools
4. US Citizenship is required
5. Ability to obtain and maintain a DoD Security Clearance
6. Effective verbal and written communication skills
7. Productive in a team working environment

Preferred Qualifications:

1. Secret or Top Secret / SCI security clearance
2. RF and mixed signal printed circuit board and circuit card assembly level design
3. RF budgeting, frequency planning, RF chain analysis and modeling, schematic capture, electromagnetic simulation, signal integrity analysis
4. Component selection and/or custom component requirements flow down and trades
5. Ceramic and organic printed circuit board materials, design, fabrication, and assembly processes
6. Integrated Circuit packaging techniques including chip-and-wire, QFN, flip-chip
7. RF lab equipment such as network analyzers, spectrum analyzers, signal generators, power meters, etc.
8. Electronic troubleshooting from component to assembly levels
9. Complex data reduction and analysis
10. Product life cycle support from concept through production support
11. Designing for high reliability, mil/aero requirements and environments
12. AESA / phased array, Radar, SIGINT, or SATCOM experience
13. Technical team leadership
14. Experience in the Aerospace or Defense Industry
15. Software tools: Mentor Xpedition DX Designer, ANSYS HFSS, Keysight ADS, Keysight Genisys, MathWorks MATLAB, Autodesk AutoCAD, and Microsoft Office Suite

Salary Range: $83,300 - $124,900

The above salary range represents a general guideline; however, Northrop Grumman considers a number of factors when determining base salary offers such as the scope and responsibilities of the position and the candidate's experience, education, skills and current market conditions.

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