Sr. Staff SCS Capture Communication Engineer Lead

At Northrop Grumman, our employees have incredible opportunities to work on revolutionary systems that impact people's lives around the world today, and for generations to come. Our pioneering and inventive spirit has enabled us to be at the forefront of many technological advancements in our nation's history - from the first flight across the Atlantic Ocean, to stealth bombers, to landing on the moon. We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage and a pioneering spirit to join forces to invent the future and have fun along the way. Our culture thrives on intellectual curiosity, cognitive diversity and bringing your whole self to work — and we have an insatiable drive to do what others think is impossible. Our employees are not only part of history, they're making history. 

Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems has an opening for a Sr. Staff SCS Capture Communication Engineer Lead to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals at our Melbourne, FL.

The successful engineer will contribute to the overall development of communications subsystems, including developing functional architectures, analyzing performance, developing and managing requirements and interfaces, and verifying/validating all allocated requirements,  You will design, develop, build, and test communications subsystems in conjunction with key suppliers.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Support development and integration of communications subsystems and components to meet platform mission objectives to support a Capture program

• Requirements development, analysis, maturation and implementation translating customer requirements into hardware and software specifications for supporting capture down select

• Perform performance and functional analyses

• Conducting detailed trade studies

• Performing risk analysis and developing mitigation plans and tracking to closure

• Collaborate with engineers and program stakeholders

• Developing and maintaining supplier documentation, performance-based specifications, and statements of work

• Technical management of program strategic partners and suppliers, including development, acquisition, acceptance, qualification, system integration and test support

• Review documents from the supplier’s development effort and support supplier technical interchange meetings and design reviews

• Identifying/planning/executing informal and formal testing of subsystem requirements in lab, troubleshooting hardware in the lab

• Performing aircraft ground and flight test on subsystems to validate and verify subsystem requirement and sell-off

• Support technical discussions with the customer and having daily interaction with management, external personnel, customers, and various sub teams.

A successful Communications Engineer has good leadership skills and understands the scope of the work and the impact of the work on other teams, consistently brings up concerns, issues and risks to program and technical leadership and holds the team to a high level of technical rigor.

​Basic Qualifications:

Sr. Staff SCS Capture Communication Engineer Lead (T05):

• Must have a Bachelor’s degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) discipline from an accredited university AND 14 years of related professional/military experience in Engineering; OR a Master’s degree in a (STEM) discipline from an accredited university AND 12 years of related professional/military experience in Engineering; or a Ph.D. (STEM) AND 10 years of related professional/military experience in Engineering.

• Your ability to transfer and maintain the final adjudicated government Secret clearance, and any program access(es) required for the position within a reasonable period of time, as determined by the company.

• Knowledge of electromagnetics in the RF spectrum (VHF through Ka bands)

• Ability to design, select and characterize RF components to meet mission objectives

• Experience in one or more of the following: Designing, integrating, testing, installing, operating LOS and BLOS communication systems in airborne military applications

• Experience with voice, military and network waveforms

• Experience with performance assessment through link margin and antenna pattern analyses

• Experience with cryptographic implementations

• Experience with RF antenna and component design and performance analysis

• Experience with cosite analysis

• Proven experience in proposal development and capture management, collaborating with cross-functional teams to strategize, draft, and deliver compelling proposals for government and defense contracts

Preferred Qualifications:

• Demonstrated problem-solving ability and data analysis experience

• Knowledge of system engineering design methods, including requirements analysis and flow-down, specification derivation and interface control documentation

• Demonstrated strong verbal and written communication skills and the ability to work well in a close team environment

• Experience engaging directly with internal and external technical and programmatic representatives

• Demonstrated problem solving and troubleshooting skills

• Demonstrated ability to assimilate new concepts quickly and independently and work in a self-directed manner

• Experience in model based systems engineering using Cameo or similar SysML tools

• Experience in performance analysis using MATLAB and Excel or similar tools

• Familiarity with Atlassian collaboration tool set (Jira and Confluence)

• Experience in supplier/subcontract management

• Experience with developing supplier documentation, performance-based specifications, and statements of work

• Experience building supplier evaluation criteria and experience in conducting technical evaluations, documenting results and selection

• Ability to review documents from the supplier’s development effort and support supplier technical interchange meetings and design review

• Proven experience in proposal development and capture management, collaborating with cross-functional teams to strategize, draft, and deliver compelling proposals for government and defense contracts