Staff Electrical Engineer – Electrical Systems and C&DH
| Company | Northrop Grumman |
|---|---|
| Location | Gilbert, AZ, USA, Dulles, VA, USA |
| Salary | $147700 – $256400 |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | Bachelor’s, Master’s, PhD |
| Experience Level | Senior, Expert or higher |
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree or higher in a STEM area (preferably Electrical Engineering) and 14 years of relevant work experience, 12 years of relevant work experience with a Master’s degree, or 9 years of relevant work experience with a PhD.
- Technical experience in Electrical Systems or C&DH subsystem Engineering.
- Experience with flight hardware development, including Material Review Boards (MRB), Parts, Materials & Processes (PM&P), procurement, assembly documentation, and End Item Data Packages (EIDP).
- Hands-on mentality and a passion for fast-paced environments.
Responsibilities
- Develop and evaluate C&DH electrical system architecture alternatives in concert with the broader systems engineering effort to select an electrical-system architecture that meets the customer’s needs.
- Performs requirement analysis and decomposition of customer requirements into hardware and software specifications and establish subsystem or system-level electrical verification method and plans.
- Performs analyses to evaluate all levels of the system to ensure a cohesive electrical-system solution throughout the development lifecycle (concept, design, fabrication, test, installation, operation, maintenance, and disposal).
- Manages the internal & external flight-vehicle electrical interfaces and develops the corresponding subsystem or system-level interconnect/block diagrams, grounding diagrams, and support electrical schematics and global connectivity list development for the flight vehicle on programs as needed.
- Perform electrical interface compatibility verifications and verify electrical connectivity implementation (e.g. verify electrical harness implementation, safety-critical circuit segregation, support peer-reviews).
- Oversees the technical planning, design integration, product integration, verification, and validation efforts for the CDH electrical-system elements throughout the development lifecycle. Influences the electrical-system design to facilitate electrical testing at the component, subsystem, and flight-vehicle levels, with the aim to enable automated testing where applicable.
- Provides technical coordination of vendors and suppliers. Review suppliers “as-planned”, “as-designed”, and “as-built” documentation (e.g. interface control document, derating analysis, worst case analysis, qualification test plan and procedure, acceptance test plan and procedure, test report).
- Manage hardware command and telemetry implementation (e.g. develop and coordinate calibration and conversion curves for analog telemetry in coordination subsystem engineers, verify electrical/software implementation).
- Identify Electrical Systems and C&DH risks, develop risk mitigation plans for selected risks, and implement mitigations.
- Contribute to assembly integration and test activities (e.g. electrical test requirements development, anomaly investigations/resolutions).
- Interfacing with design and manufacturing groups to monitor component production process/progress to include Integration & Test (I&T) and relaying that status to management along with potential solutions to stay on target.
- Provide technical oversight to ensure the C&DH electrical system is compliant and verifiable at the avionics digital and analog telemetry level.
- Lead the costing & scheduling development for the C&DH subsystem on major programs from initial RFP efforts through end of program life. Develop cost estimates for proposals and programs as required.
- Candidate must be comfortable with managing program execution from a Technical perspective, meeting deadlines, working on multiple projects concurrently, and working with various engineering disciplines and internal/external customers as required.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience leading teams of engineers managing resources and schedules.
- Experience with requirements tracking tool such as DOORS or CAMEO.
- Digital design experience.
- Experience developing FPGAs.
- Strong verbal and written communications skills.
- Experience with creating and tracking schedules using project tracking tools such as Microsoft project.
- Experience with Earned Value Management (EVM) and creating variance reports.