Principal RF Engineer (1929)

Job ID: z5G7h3l6a1kMvyS65NP3cxZAT5cHVEV6Rx3vlla7HTY=Job Code: JPC 9036074Location: Rolling Meadows, IL, IL, United StatesExperience: 5-20 yearsContact: RaghavendraContact Email: View email address on click.appcast.io Title: Principal RF Engineer 3 / Engineer Hardware 3 (1929)Location: Rolling Meadows, ILJob Description: 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 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 integrationHands-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 loopsDemonstrated ability to translate system performance and operational specifications into hardware requirements, design, and test specificationsFamiliarity with documentation, revision control and review systems like DOORS, ClearCase, and ClearQuestUS Citizens​hipMust 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 integrationHands-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 loopsDemonstrated ability to translate system performance and operational specifications into hardware requirements, design, and test specificationsFamiliarity with documentation, revision control and review systems like DOORS, ClearCase, and ClearQuestUS CitizenshipMust 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 EngineeringMinimum 7 years of RF and/or mixed signal electronics design experienceWorking knowledge of Electronic Warfare systemsRecent circuit card design experience utilizing circuit-related tools including Cadence Concept, Allegro, and/or Mentor DxDesigner, ExpeditionExperience with Advanced Design System (ADS) and MatLab modeling toolsExperience with SPICE modeling toolsProven skills to include: communicating with all levels of an organization internally and externally, adaptable, creative, collaborative and comfortable working independently and enjoy solving difficult problemsCurrent Secret or Top-Secret security clearanceExperience5-20 yearsSkillsprototyping 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, 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, 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