Principal Engineer Electronics -

Embark on a career putting innovative, reliable, and agile products and ideas into orbit, and beyond. Northrop Grumman has opportunities waiting for you that play a vital role in human space exploration, national defense, and scientific discovery, supporting multiple programs across the universe.

With us, you’ll discover a culture of curiosity and collaboration that will have you Defining Possible from the day you start.

Our space systems connect and protect millions of people on earth every day, now and for the future. Explore your future and launch your career today.

Northrop Grumman Space Systems has an opening for the next Engineer Electronics to join the Electronics and Payloads team.

This position is based in Manhattan Beach, CA.

The responsibilities of this position include :

Design and develop sophisticated test solutions for in-house developed space and avionics hardware products which will fly to space

Write test software in Labview on to interact with units under test, test equipment, instrumentation, and production documentation systems

Select COTS hardware and / or design custom PCBAs to measure signals, apply flight-like loads, and power units under test

Work closely with responsible design engineers, manufacturing engineers, and test lab teams to drive design or infrastructure improvements to increase product reliability and yield

Root-cause test failures down to the component level

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications :

Bachelor’s Degree in a STEM related field (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) with minimum 4 years of experience or 2 year's with Master’s Degree

1+ years of experience with hardware development or electronics test engineering via professional experience, internships, research and / or outside the classroom projects

1+ year of programming experience (JavaScript, Java, Python, C / CPP, Labview, etc)

Preferred Qualifications :

Experience analyzing circuits and developing functional test plans

Experience designing and troubleshooting PCBAs

Experience with test equipment and measurement techniques to verify and validate product requirements

Understanding of metrology, sources of measurement error, and uncertainty analysis

Experience developing software preferably in LabVIEW

Understanding and experience in environmental testing.