Principal/Software Integration & Test Engineer

The Payload and Ground Systems organization within the Northrop Grumman Space Systems pushes the boundaries of innovation, redefines engineering capabilities, and drives advances in various sciences. Our team is chartered with providing the skills, innovative technologies to develop, design, produce and sustain optimized product lines across the sector while providing a decisive advantage to the warfighter. Come be a part of our mission!

We are seeking a team member who wants to solve interesting, complex problems to help protect our nation. We are a trusted mission payload and ground system provider with extensive experience providing end-to-end mission solutions from concept through operations and support. The team you will support is located at our Space Park campus in Redondo Beach, CA.

What you’ll get to do?

As a Software Integration & Test Engineer on this team, you will design, develop, and implement test plans and approaches for requirements verification.  You will support efforts in the design and delivery of ground systems to support spacecraft and spacecraft payloads. You will be responsible for performance analysis, interface development and test, design verification, test requirements analysis, and system integration and test planning and execution.  You will communicate intelligibly with the customer, IPT leads, and team members for test walk throughs.  In this role you will write test procedure automation scripts.

This requisition may be filled at a higher grade based on qualifications listed below.

Basic Qualifications for Software Integration & Test Engineer:

• Bachelor’s degree in STEM with 2 years of related experience, or a Master’s degree in STEM
• Working knowledge of software integration and test principles and processes
• Ability to work in an integrated product team (IPT) environment
• Ability to solve complex problems and break them down to achievable solutions
• Active DoD Top Secret Clearance

Basic Qualifications for Principal Software Integration & Test Engineer:

• Bachelor’s degree in STEM with 5 years of related experience, or 3 years with a Master’s degree in STEM, or a PhD in STEM
• Working knowledge of software integration and test principles and processes
• Ability to work in an integrated product team (IPT) environment
• Ability to solve complex problems and break them down to achievable solutions
• Active DoD Top Secret Clearance

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Agile development
• Experience in Formal Qualifying Campaigns and requirements verification
• Experience in Test Automation scripting and languages (Python, Linux, UML, Test Complete, Robot Framework)
• Experience in interface testing
• Space Domain knowledge

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