Physicist

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE:
Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE TYPE:
Top 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 yours of 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.

We are looking for you to join our Emerging Capabilities Development (ECD) disciplined team as a Staff Physicist, this position will be located at our Linthicum, MD or San Diego, CA location. As a Principal / Senior Principal Physicist you will perform research and development activities that seek to provide unprecedented capabilities by miss ionizing concepts at the frontier of physics. You will actively contribute to the following to include high-energy muon sources, charged particle beam dynamics, conventional RF particles accelerators, compact particle accelerator and detector technologies, integration and application of advanced laser technology, and other emerging mission applications of high-energy physics, plasma physics, and related disciplines.

The Staff Physicist will work across disparate scientific and engineering domains, working with subject matter experts from other fields, to yield mission relevant applications.

• Designing and simulating particle accelerators and fixed target beamlines

• Evaluating various particle accelerator and fixed target beamline architectures

• Designing, operating, and commissioning novel ionizing radiation detectors

• Developing ionizing radiation transport simulation software frameworks for evaluating and predicting performance of potential ionizing radiation detector designs

• Developing automated data acquisition software for data readout of ionizing radiation detectors

• Developing algorithms for triggering, reconstructing, and analyzing data from physical and simulated ionizing radiation detectors

• Performing and analyzing simulations of ionizing radiation transport through radiation beamlines

• Liaising with and maintaining a network of collaborators in academia, national laboratories, and other similar institutions

• Ideating and proposing new concepts that apply physics to mission-relevant applications

This position is contingent upon contract award and the ability to obtain / maintain an active DoD Top Secret clearance after hire.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree with 12 years of experience, master's degree with 10 years of experience or a Ph.D. with 8 years of experience in Physics or related Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics technical fields; an additional 4 years of experience may be considered in lieu of a degree

• U.S Citizenship required

• The ability to obtain and maintain a DoD Top Secret clearance is required

• Experience as a software developer using C/C++ and python.

• Experience with distributed version control systems such as git, svn, or cvs.

• Experie…