Digital Engineering Manager 2

Company: Northrop Grumman
Location: Azusa
Posted on: August 4, 2022

Job Description:

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. The Payload and Ground Systems (PGS) Division in Azusa, CA is seeking a Digital Engineering Manager 2 to join our team of qualified and diverse individuals. This position will lead a growing statement of work within the Hardware Engineering and have responsibility for establishing, maintaining, and enabling consistency across the organization and programs. This includes ensuring all activities on programs are aligned to the functional objectives and policies and practice. The candidate will also support developing organizational strategies implementing across organization. This role will report on-site to our Azusa campus daily. We can accommodate occasional teleworking but fully dependent on program/business need. The candidate will be responsible for functional management of the digital engineering group of - 15 employees, focusing on digital design, development, verification, and implementation. The selected candidate will be responsible for deployment of resources to programs, maintaining department processes, customer interfaces, mentoring, performance evaluation, coordinating activities, staffing, and career development of department members. In this role, this person is responsible for the overall technical performance of the Digital Engineering organization. The position requires approximately 80% direct space program support and 20% for functional management. The successful applicant will require a technical understanding and experience in with all aspects of a digital design life cycle. This includes, but is not limited to, digital design, architectures, establishing requirements, verification, simulation, debugging, hardware implementation, and more. The candidate should have project management experience in a team environment, including budget management. Candidate will interface with multiple disciplines such as program management, electrical, mechanical and system engineering, procurement, supply base/subcontractors, integration & test, and manufacturing. The candidate must be capable of flowing down and/or deriving requirements from higher-level specifications, performing trade studies, and generating process documents. Additional responsibilities may be assigned commensurate with performance or due to business needs. Designs, develops, modifies and evaluates digital electronic parts, components or integrated circuitry for digital electronic equipment and other hardware systems. Determines design approaches and parameters. Analyzes equipment to establish operating data, conducts experimental tests, and evaluates results. Selects components and equipment based on analysis of specifications and reliability. May also review vendor capability to support product development. Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in, Electrical/Electronic Engineering, C omputer Engineering , or other S.T.E.M. discipline & 5+ years of related engineering experience
• Experience developing and delivering hardware subsystems/equipment, or conduct of one or more digital engineering disciplines (see above) in support of such delivery
• 3 years of leadership experience (team, project, program, people)
• Proficiency with Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs)
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office tool suite
• Ability to obtain and maintain a DoD Secret clearance (US Citizenship Required Preferred Qualifications
  • Master's degree in electrical, electronics, computer engineering, or related specialty (Digital signal processing, VLSI, etc)
  • 2+ years of functional management experience
  • Experience with multi-gigabit SERDES communication
  • Experience implementing image processing algorithms in FPGAs
  • Experience with design, analysis, and architecture of digital signal processing electronics systems
  • Proven budget management experience
  • Current & active Clearance: Secret, Top Secret, SCI/SSBI. Salary Range: $143,500 USD - $215,300 USD Employees may be eligible for a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay. Annual bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions as well as allow employees to share in company results. Employees in Vice President or Director positions may be eligible for Long Term Incentives. In addition, Northrop Grumman provides a variety of benefits including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, savings plan, Company paid holidays and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business. The health and safety of our employees and their families is a top priority. The company encourages employees to remain up-to-date on their COVID-19 vaccinations. U.S. Northrop Grumman employees may be required, in the future, to be vaccinated or have an approved disability/medical or religious accommodation, pursuant to future court decisions and/or government action on the currently stayed federal contractor vaccine mandate under Executive Order 14042 https://www.saferfederalworkforce.gov/contractors/ .Northrop Grumman is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class. For our complete EEO/AA and Pay Transparency statement, please visit http://www.northropgrumman.com/EEO . U.S. Citizenship is required for most positions.

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