Senior Principal Electronics Engineer

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE:
No relocation assistance available

CLEARANCE TYPE:
Secret

TRAVEL:
Yes, 10% of the Time
Description
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.

At the heart of Defining Possible is our commitment to missions. In rapidly changing global security environments, Northrop Grumman brings informed insights and software-secure technology to enable strategic planning. We’re looking for innovators who can help us keep building on our wide portfolio of secure, affordable, integrated, and multi-domain systems and technologies that fuel those missions. By joining in our shared mission, we’ll support you by expanding your personal network and developing skills, whether you are new to the field, or an industry thought leader.

At Northrop Grumman, you’ll have the resources, support, and team to do some of the best work of your career.

Northrop Grumman Mission Systems (NGMS) is seeking a Sr. Principal Electronics Engineer with the desire to learn new technologies to join our Hardware Engineering Organization to help develop, enhance and analyze cutting edge products and systems. Candidates will work on electronic hardware for mission systems

We are looking for you to join our team as a Sr. Principal Electronics Engineer based out of Linthicum, MD.

Summary of Role:

As a Sr. Principal Electronics Engineer within the Reliability Analysis Laboratory group, you will have a challenging and rewarding opportunity to be a part of our hardware engineering organization. You will provide critical analysis in support of high visibility investigations at a component level to solve root cause and guide multi-disciplinary engineering teams to optimal corrective actions. You will closely collaborate with materials, design, manufacturing and test engineering to ensure continuous product performance meets and exceeds customer requirements.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Diagnose and isolate failure modes using advanced electrical and thermal characterization tools, including oscilloscopes, parametric analyzers, and curve tracers.

• Investigate and identify root causes of components and device level failures such as short, opens, excessive leakage, performance degradation, thermal instability

• Must have fundamental knowledge in failure mechanisms and accelerated life testing of electronic devices

• Analyze electronic components using non-destructive and destructive techniques such as X-ray imaging, acoustic microscope, time-domain reflectometry, IV curves

• Collaborate with cross-discipline teams of engineers to determine root cause and provide corrective action for improving reliability life cycle within design, manufacturing and qualification

• Familiarity with reading electronic schematics for electronic components and circuit cards

• Actively participate in technical reviews to share technical analysis results with program stakeholders

• Working knowledge of compound semiconductor fabrication and testing

• Fundamental knowledge of electronic packages construction and functionality: FPGA, QFNs, Wire-bonding, Flip-Chip devices

• Communicate technical results and status updates to management and program stakeholders

This position is contingent upon the ability to obtain an active DoD Secret Clearance prior to start or the successful transfer of an active DoD Secret Clearance.

Basic Qualifications for a Senior Principal Electronics Engineer

Bachelor’s Degree with 8 years of experience, master’s degree with 6…