Principal RF Engineer (1929)

Job Title : Principal RF Engineer 3 / Engineer Hardware 3 (1929)

Location : Rolling Meadows, IL

Job 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 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