System Integration Test Engineering

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TRAVEL: 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 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. The Engineering and Sciences organization (E&S) pushes the boundaries of innovation, redefines engineering capabilities, and drives advances in various sciences. Northrop Grumman Mission Systems' Baltimore and Partnered Sites (BaPs) division is seeking a Systems Integration & Test (SI&T) Engineers in Baltimore, MD to support test and verification activities of RF sensor systems. These include airborne RADARs for fighter jets & UAVs including F-22, F-35, F-16, Global Hawk (Triton), and Gray Eagle (STARLite), airborne surveillance RADARs for AWACS and E-7 (MESA), and ground and maritime RADARs including G/ATOR and SEWIP. Qualified Systems Integration, Test & Evaluation (SITE) engineers will perform hands-on integration and testing of sophisticated RF sensor systems, including both hardware and software components in development and production environments; Synthesize internal and external customer needs and requirements into system tests that acknowledge technical and schedule constraints; participate in I&T readiness reviews, design reviews and conducts audits of I&T program facilities; Coordinate integrated testing activities that may include environmental, reliability and the occasional flight test; Perform analysis of test results and prepares comprehensive reports; Use modeling and simulation tools to expedite testing of individual units before all system components are available and for troubleshooting and repair of failed units.
Integration, troubleshooting, and testing RF sensor systems
Support integration environment development and establishment (Labs)
Collaborate with software, firmware, and hardware teams to understand expected unit level and system level behavior to define test cases and define & develop test capabilities that exercise and stress respective software and hardware capabilities.
Collaborate with software, firmware, and hardware subject matter experts to ensure testing produces expected data points.
Basic Qualifications for a Systems Engineer Integration & Test (I&T)
Bachelors degree with 2 years of experience, or a Master's degree. Active DoD Secret clearance and the ability to obtain/maintain Special Program Access (SAP) prior to start is required.
Candidate must be a US citizen
Experience with RF lab test equipment: i.e. signal generator, oscilloscope, spectrum analyzer, etc.
Experience coding in MATLAB to support coding, test scripting, data analysis, and signal processing
Experience working a system bench, running acceptance test plans, writing test reports, troubleshooting hardware and software, communicating status updates.
Experience with Environmental, EMI/EMC integration and testing
Ability to work onsite full-time in Baltimore, MD
Active DoD Top Secret Clearance or higher
Knowledge integrating and testing software written in C, C++.
Knowledge of firmware and hardware control integration planning and execution
Knowledge of embedded systems design and implementation
Experience developing scripts in python to automate manual processes.
Understanding of Systems Engineering concepts, including requirements analysis and verification planning and execution
Ability to qualify for program access based on customer requirements (SAP/SAR)

This position is contingent upon transfer of active DoD Secret Clearance and approved special program access.
Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay. Annual bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions as well as allow employees to share in company results. In addition, Northrop Grumman provides a variety of benefits including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, savings plan, Company paid holidays and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business.
The application period for the job is estimated to be 20 days from the job posting date. Northrop Grumman is an Equal Opportunity Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class.