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Northrop Grumman

Staff Engineer Systems - Technical Lead

AI summary of the role

This Staff Engineer Systems - Technical Lead role at Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems in Melbourne, FL, focuses on integrating over-the-air communication systems (commercial and military) and designing platforms for advanced battle management technologies.

What you’ll do

  • Establish technical baseline and execute change management to meet platform/payload specific experiment objectives.
  • Establish and lead a regular rhythm with stakeholders to communicate overall technical approach and methodology for design, integration, hypothesis testing, data collection, and recommendations.
  • Lead and present customer milestone reviews, including suppliers’ briefing, key performance requirements, architecture diagrams, solutions approach, etc.
  • Interpret, allocate, tailor, write and/or flow down requirements to all levels of a Mesh Network architecture.

What you’ll bring

  • Bachelor of Science in STEM + 12 years related experience, or Master's + 10 years, or PhD + 8 years.
  • Active U.S. Government Secret or higher clearance with background investigation within last 6 years or enrolled in Continuous Evaluation.
  • Ability to obtain and maintain Special Access Program (SAP) clearance prior to start.
  • Experience establishing technical baseline of microelectronics design, payload/RF/digital implementation, or system engineering disciplines (requirements decomposition, V&V, configuration change management).

Technologies

over-the-air communication systems · microelectronics · RF/digital implementation · Mesh Network architecture · Technology Readiness Level (TRL) · spectrum approval · interim flight clearances (IFC) · Interim Authorization To Test (IATT) · Authority to Operate (ATO) · Mission Engineering

About Northrop Grumman

Builds aircraft, missiles, space systems, sensors, cyber and microelectronics for U.S. and allied national-security customers, with strengths in stealth, nuclear modernization and classified space.

Public · 5000+ people

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employees are not only part of history, they're making history. Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems has an opening for a Staff Engineer Systems - Technical Lead to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals within our Systems Engineering organization. This role is located in Melbourne, FL. In this role, the ideal candidate will have experience working with over-the-air communication systems, both commercial and military, as well as experience integrating and testing hardware/software solutions from a unit level, down to the microelectronics level, in a lab environment and as part of the field experiment. This role will involve working with multiple commercial partners to integrate the latest communications capabilities and designing a platform to support advanced battle management technologies. A successful Lead Engineer has good leadership skills and understands the scope of
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