Senior RF/Microwave Design Engineer

3 days ago

Baltimore, Maryland, United States Northrop Grumman Full time
Job Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled RF/Microwave Design Engineer to join our team at Northrop Grumman. As a key member of our Electrical Design and Analysis (EDA) section, you will be responsible for designing, modeling, and verifying RF/microwave and mixed signal circuit card assemblies (CCAs).

Key Responsibilities
  • Design and develop RF/microwave and mixed signal CCAs, including digital receiver/exciters
  • Utilize analysis, simulations, and prototyping to develop CCA designs
  • Manage RF budgets, frequency planning, and common assembly level interfaces
  • Predict assembly level performance through selecting materials, components, and packaging approaches, RF chain analysis, electromagnetic simulation, data collection and analysis, and other modeling techniques
Requirements
  • Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering or comparable STEM degree
  • Minimum 5 years of relevant engineering experience (3+ years with MS degree; or PhD)
  • Proficient in RF/Microwave and mixed signal circuit design, schematic capture, and PWB/board layout
  • Completed and/or led multiple board designs from schematic capture to board release
  • Experience in test and troubleshooting complex mixed signal CCAs
  • Ability to provide solutions to a broad variety of RF/Microwave design and test related problems of complex difficulty
  • Expert proficiency with industry standard RF/Microwave modeling, simulation, and printed circuit board design tools
  • Ability to work on multi-discipline engineering teams and communicate clearly within integrated product team leads
  • Easily adapt to design challenges to meet program goals and deadlines
  • US Citizenship is required
  • Ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI clearance
Preferred Qualifications
  • Active Top Secret / SCI security clearance
  • Experience in Worst Case Circuit Analysis (WCCA) including logic compatibility, component derating, timing analysis, signal and power integrity analyses
  • Signal integrity analysis (SERDES, Bit error rates, jitter components and contributors, board to board analysis)
  • Expertise in working with receiver/exciters, conducting RF performance analysis, and implementing digital beamforming
  • High-speed digital circuit design experience
  • Familiarity with Point of Load (PoL) design
  • Experience in integrating FPGA/Digital controls on the bench
  • Understanding of basic signal processing
  • RF budgeting, frequency planning, RF chain analysis, and modeling
  • Component selection and/or custom component requirements flow down and trades
  • Ceramic and organic printed circuit board materials, design, fabrication, and assembly processes
  • Integrated Circuit packaging techniques including chip-and-wire, QFN, flip-chip
  • Product life cycle support from concept through production support
  • Designing for high reliability, space requirements, and environments
  • AESA / phased array, Radar, SIGINT, or SATCOM experience

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