Sr/Principal Electrical Engineer - Circuit Design

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 pioneering and inventive spirit has enabled us to be at the forefront of many technological advancements in our nation's history - from the first flight across the Atlantic Ocean, to stealth bombers, to landing on the moon. We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage and a pioneering spirit to join forces to invent the future, and have fun along the way. 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. Our employees are not only part of history, they're making history. We have an opening for an Electrical Circuit Design Engineer to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals in the Tactical Space organization. This position will be located in Dulles, VA. The Avionics Digital Hardware Development Group, responsible for the development of spacecraft avionics hardware, is seeking an experienced Electrical Circuit Design Engineer to perform detailed circuit design of hardware including flight part selection, schematic capture, and working with CAD personnel for part placement PCB layout planning and routing. Responsibilities also include performing detailed circuit design analyses and documentation of the design in accordance with program requirements and institutional processes. In this role you will: Design electronic circuits with digital and analog functionality for spacecraft applications, select components with suitable radiation qualities, interact with other team members and software group to determine interfaces and operating characteristics, lead the effort to incorporate a wide range of technologies and design architectures into a variety of Northrop Grumman satellite systems, with general direction, plan, prepare and complete all design and development activities and provide technical oversight to junior engineers, participate in or lead design reviews, perform deep dive reviews for peers, work with fabrication team on board layout and build, define layout constraints and provide oversight to board layout personnel, support board through manufacturing of breadboards, engineering models, and flight units, select parts, identify alternate parts, and help resolve issues at the part level, design avionics systems in assigned area by utilizing standard engineering and scientific principles. Based on specific stated objectives perform design analysis of complex avionics such as Worst-Case (WCA) (Spice simulation, mathematical and statistical analysis), Part Stress (PSA), Failure modes and Effects (FMEA), Signal Integrity (SI) and Timing analysis, perform all detailed analysis and follow up to assure compliance with all technical, program and contractual requirements, analyze avionics systems in assigned area by utilizing standard engineering and scientific principles. Generate documentation and review packages for flight boards, develop performance specification, without detailed direction, decompose system level requirements and related performance criteria to the avionics box, card and FPGA level, support the development of a detailed test plan to evaluate avionics in accordance with stated requirements, test and debug boards, bench level verification of board functionality, work either individually or as part of a team to develop test procedures and hardware to verify breadboards, engineering models, and flight units, support delivery of board to box-level assembly, including testing and debug, provide inputs for technical, cost and schedule performance, participate in pre-proposal cost and technical assessments, effectively operate within a multi-discipline engineering team, able to communicate effectively and clearly present technical approaches and findings, mentor junior engineers to help them understand design practices & processes.