Sr Principal Electronics Engineer
Northrop Grumman
- Baltimore, MD
- $127,000-190,600 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Design, develop, and implement testing methods and equipment
- Troubleshoot and support RF and digital hardware
- Support First Time Through Test Yield (FTTTY) and hardware deliveries
- Analyze test data and identify early trends
- Compile data and define changes required in testing equipment, testing procedures, manufacturing processes, or new testing requirements
- Collaborate with design engineering to develop and implement hardware improvements and solutions
- Support technicians through troubleshoot and training
- Monitor product yields and aggressively work to maintain program yield targets
- Support program meetings in developing root cause and corrective actions
- Attend program meetings to report yield issues, yield detractor investigation finding, and corrective actions
- Interface with manufacturing management, test technicians, production engineers, design engineers, system engineers, program management and program support teams
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or related STEM field plus 9 years of relevant experience; or a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering or related STEM field plus 7 years of relevant experience.
- Ability to read and interpret specifications, schematics and block diagrams
- Experience with RF hardware and software
- Experience with RF test equipment, such as scopes, power meter, spectrum analyzer, signal generator
- Proficiency in RF, RF test equipment, RF theory and concepts.
- Hands-on troubleshooting of electrical hardware
- U.S. citizenship
- Active Department of Defense (DoD) interim secret level clearance or higher
- Advanced degree in Engineering or related STEM discipline
- Ability to work with minimal direction and guidance
- Experience with FPGA
- Experience with LabWindows CVI, C / C++ programming
- TestStand programming
- Proficiency with digital, analog.
- Familiarity with differential digital interfaces like LVDS
- PXI/PXIe and VME bus experience