RF/Analog Electrical Engineer

The Principal RF/Sr. Principal RF role involves full life-cycle product development from system concept and requirements through design, production, verification, and field support while working in integrated product teams spanning Engineering, Manufacturing, and Program Management. RF/Analog subsystem and circuit card designs utilize the latest MMIC and discrete device technologies from all major vendors including internal Northrop Grumman designed devices, Electro-Optical (EO) circuitry, controls, detectors and data converters. As an RF/Analog Electrical Engineer, you will join our diverse team and be responsible for research, design, development of signal conversion and analog/mixed signal products. Your expertise in RF, mixed signal, and/or Electro-Optical component design and analysis, modeling and simulation, and circuit level design and test are desired for this position.

This position will be full-time and on-site at our Rolling Meadows, IL. Location

This position can be filled at either the Principal or Sr. Principal level:

Basic Qualifications for Principal RF Engineer:

- Bachelors’ degree in STEM field with a minimum 5+ years of electronics design experience or MS degree in STEM field with 3+ years of electronics design experience.

· RF/Analog circuit design experience, including schematic capture through test and integration

· Hands-on prototyping and debug experience testing complex RF subsystems, such as complex circuit card development involving amplifiers, mixers, control systems, ADCs, DACs, and/or phase lock loops

· Demonstrated ability to translate system performance and operational specifications into hardware requirements, design, and test specifications

· Familiarity with documentation, revision control and review systems like DOORS, ClearCase, and ClearQuest

· US Citizens​hip

· Must have Interim Secret clearance prior to starting and once started, must have the ability to obtain and maintain a Secret security clearance.​

Basic Qualifications for Sr. Principal RF Engineer:

· Bachelors’ degree in STEM field with a minimum 8 years of electronics design experience or MS degree in STEM field with 6 years of electronics design experience.

· RF/Analog circuit design experience, including schematic capture through test and integration

· Hands-on prototyping and debug experience testing complex RF subsystems, such as complex circuit card development involving amplifiers, mixers, control systems, ADCs, DACs, and/or phase lock loops

· Demonstrated ability to translate system performance and operational specifications into hardware requirements, design, and test specifications

· Familiarity with documentation, revision control and review systems like DOORS, ClearCase, and ClearQuest

· US Citizenship

· Must have Interim Secret clearance prior to starting and once started, must have the ability to obtain and maintain a Secret security clearance.​

Preferred Qualifications:

· An advanced degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering

· Minimum 7 years of RF and/or mixed signal electronics design experience

· Working knowledge of Electronic Warfare systems

· Recent circuit card design experience utilizing circuit-related tools including Cadence Concept, Allegro, and/or Mentor DxDesigner, Expedition

· Experience with Advanced Design System (ADS) and MatLab modeling tools

· Experience with SPICE modeling tools

· Proven skills to include: communicating with all levels of an organization internally and externally, adaptable, creative, collaborative and comfortable working independently and enjoy solving difficult problems

· Current Secret or Top-Secret security clearance