Staff Software Engineer – TS and/or SCI Clearance

Embark on a career putting innovative, reliable, and agile products and ideas into orbit, and beyond. Northrop Grumman has opportunities waiting for you that play a vital role in human space exploration, national defense, and scientific discovery, supporting multiple programs across the universe. With us, you’ll discover a culture of curiosity and collaboration that will have you Defining Possible from the day you start. Our space systems connect and protect millions of people on earth every day, now and for the future. Explore your future and launch your career today. Northrop Grumman Space Systems is looking for you to join our team as a Staff Software Engineer with the Software Engineering organization based out of Manhattan Beach, CA. Designs, develops, documents, tests and debugs applications software and systems that contain logical and mathematical solutions. Conducts multidisciplinary research and collaborates with equipment designers and/or hardware engineers in the planning, design, development, and utilization of electronic data processing systems for product and commercial software. Determines overall system and user needs; analyzes system capabilities to resolve problems on program intent, output requirements, input data acquisition, programming techniques and controls; prepares operating instructions; designs and develops compilers and assemblers, utility programs, and operating systems. Ensures software standards are met. Candidates should have academic and work experience in software engineering and development across the full life cycle for multiple domains and systems such as aerospace programs, embedded systems, test set/special test equipment, or ground system applications. Candidate should have experience working in a process oriented environment utilizing waterfall, spiral, or agile processes. Candidates should also have strong verbal and written communication skills, strong team building skills, and be comfortable working on large teams with talented engineering from other engineering disciplines.  Candidate will also provide technical leadership for more junior team members.   #LI-JP1

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) discipline
• Minimum of 14 years software development experience OR 12 years with a Master’s Degree OR 9 years with PhD
• Active TS and/or SCI Security Clearance 
  • Candidate must have, and be able to maintain, at least ONE of the following active U.S. Government security clearances:
  • Dept. of Defense Top Secret level with a background investigation date within 6 years OR SCI access with a Single Scope Background Investigation (SSBI) completed within 5 years OR Dept. of Energy Q clearance with a Single Scope Background Investigation (SSBI) completed within 5 years

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or Electrical Engineering from an ABET accredited university
• Expert level skills in multiple programming languages including C,C++,C#, Java, or Python
• Significant experience across the full life cycle including software systems architecture development, requirements definition and analysis, OO development, code and unit test, systems integration and test
• Technical leadership experience in aerospace programs, embedded systems, test set software, ground systems applications, or database design

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