GPS Receiver Principal Investigator

4 days ago

California, Missouri, United States Northrop Grumman Full time
Job Title: GPS Receiver Principal Investigator

Northrop Grumman is seeking a highly skilled GPS Receiver Principal Investigator to join our team. As a senior technical leader, you will provide technical guidance and oversight for our navigation research and development portfolio, focusing on military applications.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Provide technical leadership for the development and evaluation of GPS receiver architectures and requirements.
  • Offer technical guidance and monitoring for activities focused on simulation modeling and analysis of GPS receiver processing and performance.
  • Characterize GPS receiver performance in relevant environments.
  • Analysis of GPS navigation performance in laboratory and flight test scenarios.
  • Interface with program management and customers to communicate status, issues, and results.
  • Help shape technology strategy and lead roadmap development for the positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) research and development operating unit.
  • Work in close collaboration with Government R&D organizations to develop advanced navigation and timing technologies.
  • Apply research and development skills to architect real-world products and capabilities.
  • Work with leading-edge Software Defined Radio (SDR) systems for GPS, GNSS, and other cooperative signals.
  • Work with leading-edge navigation warfare (NavWar) systems, techniques, algorithms, and software to enhance mission success in contested environments.
  • Shape next generation mission applications like autonomous navigation, distributed sensing, alternative sensing and sensor fusion, proliferated low earth orbit (pLEO) space systems, model-based system engineering, cloud-based software as a service, and swarming vehicles.
Requirements:
  • Masters of Science in a STEM discipline and a minimum of 18 years of prior relevant experience, OR Ph.D. in STEM discipline and a minimum of 15 years of prior relevant experience.
  • US Citizenship is required in order to obtain and maintain security clearance.
  • Demonstrated experience with algorithm development for satellite acquisition, tracking, and receiver measurement formation.
  • Demonstrated experience with design of GPS receiver tracking loops, including characterization of platform dynamics, environmental/interference effects, jamming mitigation techniques on GPS processing.
  • Exposure to requirements specification and interface control documents (ICD) for GPS-153/RS-232, etc.
  • Demonstrated experience in a technical lead role for a GPS product or lead role for an integrated product team (IPT).
  • Hands-On experience with software defined Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receivers.
Preferred Qualifications:
  • Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering or Electrical Engineering or any related field and a minimum of 15 years of prior relevant experience.
  • Working experience as a Team Lead, Technical Lead, and/or Subject Matter Expert (SME) in fields of knowledge and expertise.
  • System Engineering focused skills: Working knowledge of Power Management, Working knowledge of Buffer/Memory Management, Working knowledge of Precision timing interface.
  • Familiarity with signals of opportunity and alternate navigation signals.
  • Familiarity with open system architectures (ex: ASPN, CMOSS, PNTOS, JADC2).
  • Familiarity with anti-jam GPS processing techniques and analysis (such as nulling, STAP, SFAP, SFAP-T, differential GPS).
  • Demonstrated experience with military GPS modernization particularly M-code signal processing and capabilities.
  • Demonstrated experience with GPS satellite constellation simulator test equipment.
  • Demonstrated experience with inertial navigation systems (INS) mechanizations.
  • Familiarity with integrated INS/GPS navigation systems involving exposure to Kalman filtering / estimation theory.
  • Demonstrated experience designing robust navigation systems with integrity monitoring including GPS measurement fault detection, isolation, and exclusion.
  • Expertise in RF impairment analysis.
  • Experience with one or more of the following: time metrology, time synchronization, time and frequency transfer, design of precision timing system, clock analysis, clock ensembling, design of time and frequency measurement systems.
  • Software Engineering focused skills: Experience with developing Vector Signal processing or Data processing algorithms for wireless communication technology.
  • Familiarity with Agile lifecycle process including Scrum, Continuous Integration, Unit Test, and Test Driven Methodologies.

This position is contingent upon the ability to obtain a Secret Clearance within a timeframe acceptable to management as well as contract award.

Salary Range: $203,300 - $304,900

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.

Employees may be eligible for a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay. Annual bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions as well as allow employees to share in company results. Employees in Vice President or Director positions may be eligible for Long Term Incentives. In addition, Northrop Grumman provides a variety of benefits including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, savings plan, Company paid holidays and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business.

The application period for the job is estimated to be 20 days from the job posting date. However, this timeline may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates.

Northrop Grumman is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class. For our complete EEO/AA and Pay Transparency statement, please visit. U.S. Citizenship is required for all positions with a government clearance and certain other restricted positions.

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