The following position descriptions are representative of the challenging technical work we do at Northrop Grumman Space Technology. See where your experience or your goals for your future fit in our exciting workplace.

Aerospace Engineer
Engineering responsibility includes aeronautical engineering tasks that support the development and manufacture of satellites, high-energy lasers, and advanced instruments. Satellite system tasks involve design, stress analysis, materials and processes, dynamics, manufacturing, integration, and flight test support. The development of lasers and advanced instruments entails many of the same tasks. Activities may also involve the development of subsystems such as propulsion system design, controls systems and appropriate reliability analysis and quality assurance.

Antenna RF Engineer
Engineering responsibility includes all aspects of spacecraft antenna subsystems used satellite programs (commercial, civil, and military). Antenna engineers provide conceptual designs, perform trade studies, define detailed requirements, generate detailed designs and predict the on-orbit performance. Additional tasks include performing the analysis, design and development of spacecraft antenna systems, transmission lines, hybrids and other RF components. Position involves working closely with the system, mechanical and production engineering staff to ensure that the design meets functional and space environmental requirements and that is producible at an acceptable cost. Antenna engineers also support senior engineers in performing antenna analysis, constructing experimental models and conducting laboratory and antenna range tests.

Communication Systems Engineer - Systems Processes and Products
Engineering responsibility includes research and development of communication payloads, ground stations and satellite links for NASA, commercial and Department of Defense applications. Use of theoretical knowledge, creativity and problem solving expertise is required in leading the conceptual design, requirements and development, and performance simulation of complex communication systems. Responsibility is at the system level and spans all development organizations, and technologists. This position will participate in satellite integration and test and launch and on-orbit deployment.

Electrical Engineer- Cable and Harness Engineering
Engineering responsibility includes support to the DC harness and RF cable design activities, wire selection, harness definition, routing, cable drawing development, wire interconnect definition, harness termination and voltage drop, harness capacitance, and transmission line calculations.

Electrical Engineer - Digital Products
Engineering responsibility includes applying advanced algorithms and architectures to implement digital hardware designs for next generation digital satellite payloads and processors. Knowledge of development of demodulators, routers and processor-based architectures also required. Additional responsibilities include application specific integrated circuits (ASIC) and fully programmable gate array (FPGA) and board design using latest workstations and CAD tools, conceptual design, simulation, verification and unit integration.

Electrical Engineer- Electrical Design Integration
Engineering responsibility includes support of unit interface design and unit-to-unit interface compatibility and connectivity. Tasks include circuit analysis, simulation, power budget allocation, and command/telemetry definition and allocation. General activities involve unit analysis and tests verifying unit-to-unit and subsystem-to-subsystem interoperability.

Electrical Engineer - Microelectronic Processing
Engineering responsibility includes development and maintenance of various processes in support of unique Gats and InP wafer fabrication labs. There are opportunities in photolithography, wet and plasma etchings, crystal epitaxy, metal/dielectric deposition and etching. Applicants with degrees in fields such as material science, chemical engineering, and physics are sought.

Electrical Engineer - Mixed Signal
Engineering responsibility includes design and development of high-speed digital circuits (up to 40 GHz) synthesizers and mixed mode ICs destined for state-of-the-art satellite payloads and commercial communication products in Space Technology’s own 1 micron HBT GaAs and InP processes. Position includes training in designing circuits using the NGST procedures that set the world speed record for digital circuits (>80 GHz).

Electrical Engineer/Physicist - Electromagnetic Compatibility, Radiation Survivability Engineering
Engineering responsibility includes support to all unit and system engineering areas to ensure compliance to electromagnetic compatibility requirements and space radiation survivability requirements. EMC tasks include development of control plans and performance of design/analysis activities to demonstrate compliance to self-generated electromagnetic fields and electromagnetic field coupling to harness wires. Survivability tasks include definition and allocation of space radiation requirements and circuit analysis and test verification to demonstrate circuit performance following exposure to space radiation.

Electrical Engineer - Power and Control Products
Engineering responsibility includes support of all design phases involved in creating power electronics and/or control electronics circuits destined for state-of-the-art satellites and other mission unique applications. Tasks include, but are not limited to, circuit analysis, simulation, test, research, trade studies, requirements generation, circuit optimization for unusual requirements, production support, and mission support.

Electrical Engineer - RF Products
Engineering responsibility includes development of current and next generation RF, microwave, and millimeter-wave electronics products for commercial and military applications. Our end products include MMIC (microwave monolithic integrated circuits) transmitters, receivers, RF processors, satellite and terrestrial communications systems such as broadband radio for point-to-point and point-to-multi-point links, and high performance MMICs for cellular phone and other wireless networking devices.

Fluid Components Engineer
The primary engineering responsibility includes fluid component development and acquisition for propulsion systems and chemical laser fluid systems. Responsibility includes propulsion and laser system assessment and evaluation to determine detailed fluid system and component requirements and design characteristics in conjunction with an integrated product team (IPT). Preparation of detailed component specifications is essential, followed by subcontractor technical interaction. Knowledge of component design and manufacturing techniques will be applied to design review, analysis and approval. Entry engineer will gain knowledge of the rocket propulsion and high-energy chemical laser product areas. The ability to work in a team environment is paramount.

Fluid and Thermophysics Engineer
Engineering responsibility for aerospace/mechanical engineer with broad background in applied science and engineering with a strong basis in fluid mechanics. Theoretical, computational and experimental capabilities are required. Supersonic and hypersonic flow knowledge with chemical nonequilibrium effects are strongly desired. Work includes diverse projects in the Fluid and Thermophysics Department such as phenomenology based modeling, supporting high-energy chemical and solid-state laser designs and test evaluation, MEMS, satellite contamination control, cryocooler devices, plumes, active protection systems, nuclear energy management, hypersonic flight and homeland security. Assignments are commensurate with degree level.

Hardware Engineer
Engineering responsibility includes conceptual design, detailed design and test of RF and Digital ground hardware for use in payload test sets, spacecraft test sets, and satellite ground terminals working with senior engineers during all phases of electronic hardware development. Design applications include FPGA, digital circuit boards with rates in excess of 3GHz, RF systems up to 40+ GHz, embedded controllers, and software development. Knowledge in one or more of the following areas is desirable: designing communications systems, modulation techniques, VHDL, s-parameters, RF design, assembly language, and C++.

Manufacturing Engineer
Engineering responsibility includes building current and next generation RF, microwave, and digital electronics products for commercial and military applications. End products include transmitters, receivers, digital and RF processors, computers, cryocoolers and networking systems for satellite and terrestrial communications systems.

Material and Process Engineer
Engineering responsibility includes development of a variety of materials, processes and coatings for spacecraft structures, propulsion, and electrical power systems including metals, specialty alloys, non-metallic materials, adhesives, composites, finishes and joining processes. Tasks include providing materials selection/evaluation and process selection support to design, manufacturing and outside vendors. Position interfaces with designers, manufacturing engineers, laboratory technicians and vendors. Requires ability to work independently, formulate test plans and communicate test procedures to laboratory technicians.

Mechanical Engineer
Engineering responsibility includes performing all aspects of mechanical design of spacecraft structures, high-energy lasers, antenna systems, avionics and support equipment. including stress, dynamic and thermal analysis. Tasks include providing technical expertise for the design, layout, construction, manufacture, integration, test and maintenance of mechanical or electro-mechanical structures or devices. Requires knowledge of stress and dynamic and thermal analysis, materials and processes, manufacturing, integration and flight test support. Additional responsibility includes subsystem development such as propulsion system design, controls systems and reliability analysis plus quality assurance.

Mechanical Test Engineer
Engineering responsibility includes assembly, test and launch of next generation satellite systems and products for commercial and military applications. End products include satellite vehicles, dedicated space payload systems, and complex static and dynamic proof test activities. Travel in support of launch activities may be required.

Mission/Systems Engineer
Engineering responsibility includes performing systems engineering for government-sponsored satellite programs (both civil and military applications). Mission-level systems engineers support the end-to-end concept definition, design, launch, and on-orbit operations of space and ground systems. Responsibilities include definition of mission conops and architectures, performing requirements definition and flow down, trade studies and analyses, simulation and modeling, reliability and safety, and integration and test activities and interface with NGST customers, system end-users, product centers, and technologists. Current entry-level positions are available in the following areas: Systems Engineering, Modeling & Simulation and Launch & Mission Operations.

Optical Engineering
Engineering responsibility includes opto-mechanical, optical and beam control engineering for high-energy chemical and solid-state lasers in the Laser and Sensor Products Center where Electro-Optic payloads and advanced sensors are designed, built and tested. The position consists of electro-optical component and system design, integration, and test. Typical responsibilities include: IR and VIS optical component specification, optical assembly and bonding, technical oversight of optical component manufacturing, optical diagnostic (temporal power, beam pointing, spectral content) design, optical system assembly and alignment, system requirement definition and error trees, documentation and technical presentation, and data acquisition and analysis of performance data. Requires confident written and communication skills and the ability to work with a team.

Physicist
Responsibility includes design of new devices, fabrication experiments, development of advanced testing, performance of laboratory measurements, analysis of resulting data and devising theoretical models to describe and optimize physical behavior. Specializations under active investigation at Northrop Grumman Space Technology include superconductivity, solid-state lasers, photonic devices, and advanced semiconductor devices. Abstract reasoning skills of the physicist are employed broadly across the engineering departments.

Quality Assurance Engineer
Engineering responsibility includes quality assurance for a variety of programs such as high-energy lasers, propulsion, and satellite systems to ensure products and parts produced meets company and contractual quality requirements, acceptance and performance criteria; configuration verification; input for safety concerns; overall conformance of mechanical and electrical hardware to project specs and drawings; surveillance verification of conformance to procedures during setups and tests and documentation of discrepancies.

Rocket and Combustion Engineer
Engineering responsibility includes support of the design and development of various advanced satellite and rocket booster systems and other technology developments for applications ranging from small thruster design for satellite attitude and orbit control to large scale rockets for launch and upper-stage booster requirements. Support to new technology areas such as gel propellant development other systems applications including development of advanced high-energy chemical laser systems such as ABL and THEL may be included with responsibilities varying from sub system requirements definition to design, build and test of new hardware at NGST or government test sites.

Software Engineer
Engineering responsibility includes all phases of the software development life cycle in support of flight-readiness testing of space vehicle systems (spacecraft and payload) under various simulated environmental and performance conditions. Test set software development activities include high-level test application programs, as well as measurement and control routines of RF and digital ground test equipment for use in payload test sets, spacecraft test dets, and datellite ground terminals. Software development platforms include Windows NT/2000, UNIX and Linux. Development languages include C/C++, LabVIEW, LabWindows, Java, and Oracle database.

Structural Dynamics Analyst
Responsibility includes performing structural dynamic analyses of space and airborne systems for NASA and Department of Defense missions on a team of experienced and talented engineers. Primary functions are to develop analytical, numerical and empirical techniques for system and subsystem level dynamic response prediction. Areas include coupled loads analysis, on-orbit slew and jitter, acoustic vibration environments, and support of dynamic testing. A significant portion of duties involve working with other engineering disciplines such as mechanical design, stress analysis, attitude control, systems engineering, mechanical test.

Subcontract Manager/Administrator
Management responsibility includes use of technical knowledge coupled with business competency to assist in procuring key high technology hardware and software assemblies for installation in satellites and aircraft. Manage and direct subcontracting staff performing on major Government programs to ensure compliance with company directives while achieving program commitments. Administrator will manage a mixed portfolio of subcontracts of moderate scope and complexity and perform all phases of subcontract administration through contract duration including preparation of request for proposal, negotiation and closeout.

Thermal Analyst
Responsibility includes performing thermal design and analysis on satellites and satellite components. Lumped parameter analytic models of these systems are developed using SINDA thermal analysis software and radiation exchange factors and environmental heating inputs are developed using TSS, a surface model generator with 3D graphics and animation. Duties will include consulting with thermal and other disciplines to establish thermal design requirements and interface parameters and support of hardware fabrication and integration, thermal vacuum and thermal cycle testing, performance of thermal model correlation, and launch and on-orbit operations support.