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Staff Systems Engineer - Air to Ground

Northrop Grumman Baltimore, MD

Baltimore, MD

Today

$169k - $254k/yr Full time Senior Air To Ground Engineering

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Job Description

Northrop Grumman Mission Systems is hiring a Staff Systems Engineer (Air-to-Ground) to support the Systems Engineering Integration and Test (SEIT) team across multiple development programs. This role is 100% on-site in Linthicum, MD, with responsibilities spanning radar system architecture, requirements, modeling and simulation, verification and test strategy, integration and test oversight, and technical reviews. You will partner closely with radar systems engineering teams, customers, and program leadership to help advance air-to-ground radar capabilities.

What you will do

Lead development of radar system architectures for air-to-ground missions, aligning with platform and mission needs (including SAR, ISAR, GMTI/T, targeting, weather, surface return, sea surface search, ship track, and related capabilities).
Define and partition system-level requirements, performance budgets, and interfaces across RF, processing, software, and platform teams.
Direct and review trade studies across waveforms, antenna design, processing architectures, and CONOPS or mission scenarios.
Own radar performance modeling and simulation, including end-to-end link budgets, coverage, detection and tracking performance, and clutter and interference analysis.
Guide the development and evaluation of Air-to-Ground concepts and algorithms from a systems perspective.
Make data-driven recommendations to optimize performance, cost, schedule, and technical risk.
Define verification strategies and test architectures from lab through flight test for new and evolved radar capabilities.
Oversee integration and test campaigns, including test planning, execution oversight, data analysis, and discrepancy resolution.
Drive root cause investigations and corrective actions for complex system-level issues.
Represent the radar system engineering team in technical reviews (SRR, PDR, CDR, TRR) and risk/issue boards.
Interface with customers to present technical approaches, performance results, and roadmaps.
Support business development through capture strategy, concept development, and contributions to proposal technical volumes and BOEs.
Mentor early- and mid-career engineers in radar systems engineering best practices.
Promote rigorous engineering discipline, configuration control, and requirements traceability.

Required qualifications

Bachelor’s degree with 12 years of experience, Master’s degree with 10 years of experience, or Ph.D. with 8 years in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field (additional 4 years experience may be considered in lieu of a degree).
U.S. Citizenship is required.
Active/current U.S. Government Secret Clearance.
Ability to obtain Special Program Access (SAP).
Experience with Radar Air-to-Ground applications, including developing and applying models in MATLAB, Python, and/or C/C++.
Experience leading systems engineering for radar or advanced RF sensor systems, including requirements, architecture, modeling, and integration/test.
Understanding of air-to-ground radar modes and performance.
Experience leading complex technical efforts and resolving system-level issues across hardware and software boundaries.
Experience with radar modeling and analysis tools (MATLAB, Python, or equivalent), including end-to-end performance assessments.
Strong communication and leadership skills, including experience presenting to senior leadership and customers.

Technologies

MATLAB
Python
C/C++
MBSE

Benefits

Health Plan
Savings Plan
Paid Time Off
Additional Benefits including Education Assistance and Training and Development
9/80 Work Schedule (where available)

Other details

Location: Baltimore, MD (onsite) (Linthicum, MD)
Salary: USD 169,000 - 253,600 per year
Relocation assistance: may be available
Clearance required for start: Yes
Clearance type: Secret
Travel: Yes, 10% of the time

Preferred qualifications

Advanced degree (MS or PhD) in a relevant STEM field with emphasis in radar, RF systems, or signal processing.
Experience as a lead systems engineer or IPT lead on an airborne radar development or major upgrade program.
Familiarity with MBSE approaches and tools to manage complex architectures and requirements.
Experience shaping technology roadmaps and IRAD/CRAD efforts in radar or advanced sensors.

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3d ago

Principal / Senior Principal Embedded Systems Security Engineer

Northrop Grumman Baltimore, MD

Baltimore, MD

3d ago

$120k - $179k/yr Full time Senior Anti Tamper Cyber Security

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Job Description

Northrop Grumman is hiring an Embedded Systems Security Engineer in Baltimore, MD with 100% onsite work. This role supports sensor payload and mission security efforts through hands-on engineering, cybersecurity planning, and ST&E support, with opportunities to contribute to full life cycle development and domain growth. The position offers a comprehensive benefits package, company paid holidays, PTO, savings options, and training and development support.

What You’ll Do

Implement and maintain compliance with government policies (including JSIG and DAAPM) by reviewing process tailoring needs and approving documented procedures.
Perform analyses to validate existing security requirements and define additional safeguards to strengthen overall system security.
Support formal Security Test and Evaluation (ST&E) activities through pre-test preparation, participation during testing, result analysis, and development of required reports.
Document outcomes from Assessment and Authorization activities, technical work, and coordination efforts while preparing and maintaining Security Plans and updating Plan of Actions and Milestones (POA&M).
Oversee and communicate analyses and modifications related to system, subsystem, or sensor exportability, ensuring alignment with international standards.
Work with program teams and global Business Development personnel to incorporate international requirements and features into design processes and support product line initiatives for global markets.
Apply full life cycle experience including architecture design, trade studies, cybersecurity requirements formulation, detailed design, unit testing, system testing, and validation and verification practices.
Contribute to strategic planning for cybersecurity technology development to align with global strategic priorities and influence current and future policies.
Use reverse engineering techniques to architect and validate effective cybersecurity solutions.
Participate in communities of practice to strengthen domain knowledge and support continuous professional growth.

Basic Qualifications

Principal: Bachelor’s degree with 5 years of experience, or Master’s with 3 years, or PhD with 1 year in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (or related technical fields). An additional 4 years of experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
Senior Principal: Bachelor’s degree with 8 years of experience, or Master’s with 6 years, or PhD with 4 years in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (or related technical fields). An additional 4 years of experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.

Required Qualifications

U.S. Citizenship is required.
Current/active DoD Secret Clearance.
Ability to obtain or maintain Special Access Program (SAP) access prior to start.
2 years of system engineering experience with DoD-based platforms, sensors, and/or subsystems, including areas such as EO/IR, Embedded Software or Cryptography, Satellite, architecture development, hardware design, RF, radar, and undersea sensors.
2 years of experience with requirements development, derivation, system integration and test, and validation and verification.
2 years of experience with Anti-tamper, Reverse Engineering and/or Risk Management Framework and cyber resiliency.

Technologies

JSIG, DAAPM, ST&E, POA&M
Risk Management Framework, Cyber Resiliency, Anti-tamper, Reverse Engineering
Cryptography, EO/IR, RF, Radar, Undersea Sensors, Satellite
SAP

Benefits

Health Plan
Savings Plan
Paid Time Off
Additional benefits including Education Assistance, Training and Development, and a 9/80 Work Schedule (where available)
Comprehensive benefits package including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, Company paid holidays, and PTO for vacation and/or personal business

Clearance, Travel, and Position Details

Clearance required for start: Yes
Clearance type: Secret
Travel: Yes, 10% of the Time
Work location: 100% onsite
This position is contingent upon contract award, successful transfer of an active DoD Secret Clearance, and the ability to obtain Special Program Access.
May be filled as a Principal Embedded Systems Security Engineer or Senior Principal Embedded Systems Security Engineer.

Relocation Assistance

Relocation assistance may be available.

Preferred Qualifications

Advanced degrees in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (or related technical fields).
Active Top Secret Clearance or higher.
Experience with Hardware (Firmware) Assurance, Software Attack Surface Analysis Report, Select Software/Firmware Encryption, and Secure Key Handling.
Experience identifying and mitigating software assurance vulnerabilities, and performing integration testing of mitigation or resolution.
Experience contributing to and/or delivering technical presentations to internal and external customers.

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3d ago

Software Engineer - Mid Level

Boeing Intelligence & Analytics Annapolis Junction, MD

Annapolis Junction, MD

3d ago

$156k - $195k/yr Full time Backend Developer APIs Data Analysis

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Job Description

Boeing Intelligence & Analytics (BI&A) is hiring a mid-level Software Engineer to build, improve, and integrate complex software systems in support of development programs. This onsite role in Annapolis Junction, MD focuses on engineering that connects software performance with real-world hardware form factors, while advancing RF signal processing capabilities and analytic tooling.

At BI&A, you will help develop and maintain software that supports processing-intensive analytics, novel algorithm development, large-data manipulation, real-time systems, and business management information systems. You will also contribute to testing and verification against documented design requirements, including resolving software problem reports, and providing input to system software design with clear hardware and software trade-offs.

Responsibilities

Develop, maintain, and enhance complex software systems based on documented requirements, including processing-intensive analytics, algorithm development, and extremely large data set manipulation
Support cutting-edge development programs by designing new solutions and contributing to program execution
Innovate RF signal processing applications
Build analytics, visualization, and discovery tools
Integrate new and legacy software across a variety of hardware form factors
Review and test software components for adherence to design requirements and document test results; resolve software problem reports
Provide software component input to system design, including hardware/software trade-offs, software reuse, and the use of Commercial Off-the-shelf (COTS)/Government Off-the-shelf (GOTS) solutions in place of new development; support requirements analysis and synthesis from system level to individual software components

Requirements

Active TS/SCI with Polygraph Clearance
Demonstrated experience with RF signal processing applications
Proficiency working in Linux development environments
Proficiency coding in Python, C++, Java, or JavaScript

Education and Experience

Seven (7) years of experience as a SWE on small-scale (5-20 member) and medium-scale (20-100 member) development teams
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related discipline from an accredited college or university
Four (4) additional years of SWE experience on projects with similar software processes may substitute for a bachelor’s degree

Desired Qualifications

Experience with Software-Defined Radio (SDR) programming
Experience with geospatial processing
Experience coding 2D and 3D image displays
Experience with GitLab, GitHub, or similar version control tools
Experience with Jira/Confluence or similar project management tools

Technologies

RF signal processing applications
Linux
Python, C++, Java, JavaScript
Software-Defined Radio (SDR)
GitLab, GitHub
Jira/Confluence
Geospatial processing
2D and 3D image displays

Work Details

Location: Annapolis Junction, MD (onsite)
Telework/Remote: Telework/Remote work currently not authorized
Contingent upon program award: Yes
Salary range: $156,000 - $195,000 per year (based on experience, qualifications, and market/business considerations)

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4d ago

Electronics Engineer

US Space Systems Command Peterson AFB, CO

Peterson AFB, CO

4d ago

$92k - $142k/yr Full time Electrical Engineering Design Engineering Engineering

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Job Description

Join the U.S. Space Systems Command to support the U.S. Space Force System Delta 85 Battle Awareness team on ground radar modernization for missile warning and space surveillance.

Responsibilities

Act as the organization’s foremost technical specialist for the Ground Based Radar Digitization (GBRD) program, recapitalizing critical missile warning and space surveillance sensors into a resilient, unified digital architecture.
Use advanced signal processing, Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE), and artificial intelligence to deliver modular capabilities needed to maintain warfighting edge.
Manage complex ground sustainment projects and independently lead and sustain complex ground-based space systems within contested warfighting domains.
Translate weapon system requirements into robust design criteria and apply systems engineering principles for sustainment, modification, logistics, and production management.
Resolve unprecedented design and technical challenges where precedents do not exist.
Troubleshoot integrated ground systems and provide technical direction for electronic systems or devices.
Influence senior leadership decisions and deliver authoritative briefings to senior agency officials and external contractors to steer program progress and executive-level decisions.
Mentor junior engineers and draft technically precise documentation.
Apply standard federal acquisition regulations and DoD policies in program execution and advisory services.

Requirements

U.S. Citizenship required.
Must be able to obtain and maintain a Top-Secret security clearance.
Drug testing required; incumbent subject to random urinalysis testing as a condition of employment.
Must handle and safeguard sensitive and/or classified information per applicable regulations to reduce potential compromise.
Extended duty hours may be required, including evenings/weekends; subject to recall; may be required to work during base exercises, contingencies, or emergency situations; overtime/comp time/credit hours may be required.
Bachelor’s degree in engineering from an ABET accredited institution required.
File OGE-450 “Confidential Disclosure Report” within 30 days of assuming the position and by 31 October annually thereafter.
Position designated a non-critical APDP position.
Eligible for situational telework only, including Emergency and OPM prescribed “Unscheduled Telework”.
TDY expected: approximately 20 days per year.
Depending on position type selected (competitive/excepted), must serve either a 1-year probationary period or a 2-year trial period.
Employment will be terminated after probation/trial unless continued employment is certified, in writing, as advancing the public interest.
PCS not authorized; incentive not authorized.
Closing timeline: closes after 5 business days or 75 applications, whichever comes first.
Knowledge of professional electronics engineering concepts, principles, practices, standards, methods, techniques, materials, and equipment to apply advanced engineering theories to project development, execution, and advisory services.
Knowledge of development testing and evaluation sufficient to apply experimental theories and new applications and provide technical advice and direction for weapon systems, subsystems, and/or support equipment.
Knowledge of integrated air-vehicles, ground systems, and support equipment to plan, design, test, troubleshoot, evaluate, and oversee development and/or sustainment of electronic systems or devices.
Knowledge of systems engineering practices for sustainment, modification, logistics, and production management, including standard acquisition regulations and procedures.
Ability to devise and evaluate criteria, parameters, characteristics, and interrelationships for design approaches and assess impact of new technology on existing systems and processes.
Ability to communicate effectively orally and in writing with technical accuracy; use computers and software/databases to gather and analyze program information; make sound judgments; and provide recommendations to higher organizational management and contractors.

Technologies

Signal processing
Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE)
Artificial intelligence

Benefits

Comprehensive benefits package for federal employees (eligibility depends on position type and whether full-time, part-time, or intermittent).
Review benefits.

Conditions of Employment

U.S. Citizenship required.
Obtain and maintain Top-Secret security clearance.
Designated for drug testing; random urinalysis testing required.
Must safeguard sensitive and/or classified information per regulations.
May work extended duty hours (evenings/weekends) and may be subject to recall; may be required to work during base exercises/contingencies/emergency situations; overtime/comp time/credit hours may be required.
Bachelor’s level engineering degree from an ABET accredited institution required.
OGE-450 filing required within 30 days of assuming the position and by 31 October annually.
Non-critical APDP position designation.
Situational telework only, including Emergency and OPM prescribed “Unscheduled Telework”.
TDY: approximately 20 days per year.
Probationary/trial period required (1-year probation OR 2-year trial depending on selection type).
PCS not authorized; incentive not authorized.
Closes after 5 business days or 75 applications, whichever comes first.

Job Overview

1 vacancy
Location: Peterson AFB, CO (onsite); remote job: No
Telework eligible: Yes, as determined by agency policy
Relocation expenses reimbursed: No
Salary: $91,870 - $142,022 per year
Pay scale & grade: NH 3
Promotion potential: None
Work schedule: Full-time
Travel required: 25% or less (may be expected)
Appointment type: Permanent
Occupations and job series: 0855 Electronics Engineering
Supervisory status: No
Federal service type: Competitive Service
Union represented: No
Security clearance: Top Secret
Position sensitivity and risk: Critical-Sensitive (CS)/High Risk
Background check type: National security
Financial disclosure required: Yes
Drug test: Yes

How You Will Be Evaluated

Evaluation based on how well you meet the qualifications above.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSAs) assessed relative to the series and grade.
Final qualifications aligned to OPM’s General Schedule Qualifications Standards.
Interviews: candidates identified as qualifying may be contacted by email and/or telephone; an interview may be conducted.

Required Documents

Resume: maximum two pages; font size not smaller than 10 pts; not considered if illegible or exceeds two pages.
Resume must include: full name, email and mailing addresses, phone number.
Resume must include: education (school name and dates attended).
Resume must include: work experience (paid and unpaid) with job title, detailed duties and accomplishments, employer name and address, supervisor name and phone number, starting and ending dates, hours per week, and salary if applicable.
Resume must include: other qualifications such as skills, certifications/licenses, honors, awards, special accomplishments, and job-related training.
College transcripts if applicable.
If relying on education: provide attendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.
Do not include photographs, inappropriate material, inappropriate content, or personal information such as age, gender, religion, or social security number.

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11d ago

Sensor Systems Engineering and Technical Support (SSETS)

Bowhead Dahlgren, VA

Dahlgren, VA

11d ago

Full time Microsoft 365 Naval Systems Office 365

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Job Description

Bowhead is seeking engineers and scientists to support the Sensor Systems Engineering and Technical Support (SSETS) contract, delivering on-site engineering and technical assistance across sensor work areas for NSWCDD in Dahlgren, Virginia. The role sits on the Dahlgren campus, where the team collaborates on requirements development, systems engineering, and a range of sensor-focused activities to advance testing, certification, and operational readiness. Qualified candidates may hold a PhD or possess a bachelor’s or master’s degree in the specified disciplines, reflecting the program’s diverse pathways.

Requirements

A bachelor’s degree from an engineering program, with at least one ABET-accredited professional engineering curriculum in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or Electronics Engineering; or a bachelor’s degree in Mathematics, Computer Science, or Physics from an accredited college or university.
A master’s degree from an accredited college or university in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Mathematics, Computer Science, or Physics.
A Ph.D. from an accredited college or university in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Mathematics, Computer Science, or Physics.
Experience with either AN/SPY-1 or AN/SPY-6 systems, or both.
AEGIS experience is required.
Basic proficiency with the Microsoft Office suite (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint).
Ability to communicate effectively with all levels of employees and external contacts.
Strong interpersonal skills and good judgment, with the ability to work independently or as part of a team.

Technologies

Microsoft Office
Word
Excel
Outlook
PowerPoint
AN/SPY-1
AN/SPY-6
AEGIS

Overview

Requirements Development
Systems Engineering
Analysis
Modeling
Hardware Design
Signal Processing
Sensor Operation
Test and Evaluation
Sensor Certification
Sensor Requirement Verification

Physical Demands

Must be able to lift up to 10 to 25 pounds
Must be able to stand and walk for prolonged periods
Must be able to twist, bend, and squat periodically

Security Clearance Requirements

Must currently hold a security clearance at the Secret level
US Citizenship is required for Secret clearance at this location

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Radar Systems Engineer Jobs

Staff Systems Engineer - Air to Ground

Principal / Senior Principal Embedded Systems Security Engineer

Software Engineer - Mid Level

Electronics Engineer

Sensor Systems Engineering and Technical Support (SSETS)

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