Principal / Senior Principal Engineer Embedded Software (Active TS/SCI Required)

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Join Northrop Grumman on our continued mission to push the boundaries of possible across land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace. Enjoy a culture where your voice is valued and start contributing to our team of passionate professionals providing real-life solutions to our world’s biggest challenges. We take pride in creating purposeful work and allowing our employees to grow and achieve their goals every day by Defining Possible. With our competitive pay and comprehensive benefits, we have the right opportunities to fit your life and launch your career today.

Northrop Grumman's Space Systems is looking for you to join our team as a Principal or Senior Principal Software Engineer, with the desire to learn new technologies and develop software for cutting edge Space Payloads. This position will support Northrop Grumman Space Systems, Payload and Ground Systems Division (PGSD) Remote Sensing Program (RSP) Business Unit in Linthicum, MD.

The software engineer will design, develop, integrate, and test software that manages a Space payload unit ensuring compliance to established requirements. Selected individuals will work on an agile development team, primarily using C++ and/or Python. The individual will work through all phases of the software development cycle including design, development, integration, and test. The selected individual will conduct reviews of software-related products, software designs, and additional technical documents.

The responsibilities include active participation in cross-functional scrum teams, design reviews, and other reviews, as required. The selected individual will actively participate in technical, peer-reviews to ensure system/software requirements are being met from an end-to-end system point of view. Individuals must be self-starters and able to efficiently operate in a team environment. Existing engineering and system specialists will be made available to assist with any activities associated with executing primary tasking. However, the selected individuals will be expected to prioritize and make recommendations to Technical Leads, as required, to implement tasking assigned. Position requires an active TS/SCI clearance to start, and ability to maintain the clearance.

This position can be filled at the Principal (T03) level or Senior Principal (T04) level

Basic Qualifications for Principal level:

• Bachelor's degree in or Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or another STEM discipline with 5+ years software development experience working on embedded real-time systems or 3+ years with a master’s degree or 0 years with PhD

• Experience in developing in C++ and/or Python

• Experience developing in a Linux and/or Windows environment

• Active TS/SCI security clearance is required to start

Basic Qualifications for Senior Principal level:

• Bachelor's degree in or Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or another STEM discipline with 9+ years software development experience working on embedded real-time systems or 7+ years with a master’s degree or 4+ years with PhD

• Experience in developing in C++ and/or Python

• Experience developing in a Linux and/or Windows environment

• Active TS/SCI security clearance is required to start

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience as a member of an Agile Scrum team

• Experience with the Atlassian tool suite (Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket)

• Experience with VxWorks

• Experience with TCL/Tk

• Experience in embedded C++ optimizations

• Hands on hardware integration and testing experience

• Ability to debug complex integrated applications or test setup issues

Salary Range: $99,800 USD - $149,800 USD

Salary Range 2: $123,800 USD - $185,800 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/.

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