Principal/Sr. Principal Systems Engineer (Cable Hardware Engineering 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.

One of our most challenging new fields is Microelectronics Design and Applications (MDA), which combines the unique properties of superconductivity and quantum mechanics to develop radical new energy-efficient computing systems. MDA is seeking a Principal/Sr. Principal Systems Engineer (Cable Hardware Engineering Lead). An experienced multi-faceted engineer with a robust technical background in hardware product development that is interested in leading a multi-disciplinary team towards technical maturation of novel high-density cabling solutions.

This position requires on site work located at our Advanced Technology Lab (ATL) in Linthicum, Maryland OR our Annapolis Junction, Maryland location.

Your responsibilities:

• Lead a multi-disciplinary technical team of engineers and physicists to develop novel high-density cable prototypes.
• Make design decisions and provide technical direction on Interconnects and Signal Distribution (I&SD) Electrical Designs.
• Perform technical planning related to system integration, spearhead verification and validation efforts, execute trade studies, generate system requirements, and manage technical and schedule risk and opportunities.
• Be accountable to all program deliverables for any cable maturation work scope.
• Collaborate with multiple technical teams across the MDA business area to achieve all relevant goals.
• Synthesize high-level technical details, generate content, and present results to both internal and external stakeholders.

What you need to be successful in the role:

• Multi-disciplinary technical background in hardware or electrical engineering.
• Experience with deriving requirements of less mature technologies towards long-term system applications.
• Experience with risk and opportunity management.
• Systems thinking approach to solving technical problems.
• An ownership mindset and excellent leadership capabilities.
• Ability to collaborate in a group setting as well as work independently.

This position can be filled as either a Principal Systems Engineer (Cable Hardware Engineering Lead) or Sr. Principal Systems Engineer (Cable Hardware Engineering Lead).

Basic Qualifications for Principal Systems Engineer:

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or other STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) discipline with 5 years of digital engineering; 3 years with an MS degree; 0 years with PhD.
• Experience in developing hardware technologies towards program goals.
• Experience generating technical requirements for system applications from early technical maturity demonstrations.
• Candidate must be a US Citizen.
• Clearance: Candidate must be able to obtain and maintain the necessary US Government security clearance per customer requirements.

Basic Qualifications for Sr. Principal Systems Engineer:

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or other STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) discipline with 8 years of digital engineering; 6 years with an MS degree; 4 years with PhD.
• Experience in developing hardware technologies towards program goals.
• Experience generating technical requirements for system applications from early technical maturity demonstrations.
• Candidate must be a US Citizen.
• Clearance: Candidate must be able to obtain and maintain the necessary US Government security clearance per customer requirements.

Preferred Qualifications for Sr. Principal Systems Engineer:

• PhD in electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, physics or a related field.
• Knowledge of mixed-signal superconducting electronics, low-temperature thermal transport, and RF network response measurements and analysis.
• Deep proficiency with RF design engineering and communicating requirements to external vendors.
• Experience with novel cable technology development.
• Track record of successfully leading multi-disciplinary technical teams to achieve complex objectives.
• Active USG security clearance.