Staff Software Engineer – SV C2

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.

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 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.

Northrop Grumman Space Systems Sector is looking for you to join our team as a Principal / Sr. Principal Software Engineer doing SV Command and Control, based out of Morrisville NC, Fairfax VA, or Linthicum MD.

What You’ll get to Do: We are looking for an experienced Software Engineer familiar with C++, Python, and SV command and control who wants to work on an agile development team using a modern development practices doing mission processing.  You may also perform maintenance and sustainment engineering for existing baselines which may require programming in C++/C.

Our small agile Scrum team is highly energized and has a significant software effort on a new program with a large program impact. If this is your type of environment and you love fast-paced software development, please consider joining our team.

This is a great opportunity for a flexible self-starter to work in a dynamic environment with real world technical content supporting several tools and systems. Plenty of opportunity for career advancement into leadership positions.

The software engineer, 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 computer 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.

Basic Qualifications:

• Staff Principal SW Engineer: 14 Years with Bachelors in Science; 12 Years with Masters; 9 Years with PhD, 18 years of software development experience in lieu of a degree.

• Experience with Agile software development using Python and/or C++ software development in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux environment

• Knowledge of object oriented design and software lifecycles

• Experience with version control software

• Candidate must have a current/active Top Secret/SCI security clearance to be considered

• Candidate must be able to obtain a Counterintelligence Polygraph (CI-Poly)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience supporting operational systems

• Experience supporting distributed systems

• Experience working in Virtualized Environments (VMs, AWS Cloud Instances)

• Experience with Atlassian tools (JIRA, Confluence, Bitbucket)

• Experience working with AWS Services

• Experience with Dockerization and Container Management (Dockers and Kubernetes)

• Previous exposure to working with ground systems (scheduling, tasking, antennas, working with hardware interfaces)

• Current Counterintelligence Polygraph (CI-Poly) completed within the last 5 years

This position reports to Morrisville, NC, USA, however, you are able to work from any of the additional 2 locations listed above.

Salary Range: $146,300 USD - $241,000 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.