Senior Principal Engineer - Software - R10230032

Overview

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE:
No relocation assistance available

CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START:
No

CLEARANCE TYPE:
Top Secret

TRAVEL:
Yes, 10% of the Time

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.

Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems Sector is searching for a Sr. Principal Engineer in our Research and Advanced Design (R&AD) Division in support of R&D activities spanning multiple sectors. The location for this opportunity can be in El Segundo or San Diego, CA.

• Engineer enterprise solutions that align with best practices to support mission critical objectives.
• Work on 1-3 mid- to large-scale projects concurrently, assigned from program and internal leadership.
• Participate in regular project design and incremental status meetings.
• Collaborate with different teams across the program to discuss, analyze or resolve usability issues and work on projects.
• Provide effective communication across multi-functional teams, stakeholders and end-users.

• Senior Principal level:
  Bachelor’s Degree in a STEM discipline and 8 years of related engineering experience; or a Master’s degree in a STEM discipline and 6 years of related engineering experience; or a PhD degree in a STEM discipline and 4 years of related engineering experience.
• Ability to transfer and maintain the final adjudicated Top Secret clearance & SCI (DoD must be in-scope or enrolled in Continuous Evaluation) and any program access(es) required for the position within a reasonable period of time, as determined by the Company.
• Enterprise Integration Patterns (EIP):
  Proficiency with Spring Integration or Apache Camel to build robust adapters and message routers.
• Java 21+ proficiency, microservice development and front-end interfaces.
• Experience with Observability technologies, health indicators, and dashboarding including Prometheus and Grafana.
• Experience with Apache NiFi.
• Deep knowledge of data flow technologies and networking, including UDP, TCP, and hybrid protocols.
• Hybrid S3 Integration:
  Ability to develop in Java 21+ using the AWS SDK for Java v2 for scenarios where a standalone microservice is more performant than a NiFi processor.
• Dashboard Development:
  Backend:
  Java 21+/Spring Boot service with a time-series or document-oriented store (e.g., Mongo
  
  DB or Elasticsearch) for status history.
• Dashboard Development:
  Frontend:
  Proficiency in Angular, React or Vue.js to build the custom "web app" for status display.
• Dashboard Development:
  Real-time Updates:
  Implementation of Web Sockets (via Spring Web Socket) or Server-Sent Events (SSE) to push probe status changes to the dashboard instantly.

• Active SCI and SAP security clearance.
• Java 21+ mastery:
  Leverage Virtual Threads (Project Loom) for high-concurrency probing and file processing tasks.
• Protocol Translation:
  Deep experience with Protobuf (Google Protocol Buffers), JAXB/Jackson for XML processing, and JSON schema validation.
• Asynchronous Messaging:
  Mastery of JMS (Java Message Service) specifically with Active
  
  MQ Classic, including connection pooling, message persistence, and dead-letter queue (DLQ) management.
• Resiliency Patterns:
  Implementation of Circuit Breakers (e.g., Resilience4j) to handle "Relay" failures without cascading into the main effort.
• Data Pipeline Orchestration:
  Advanced knowledge of Apache NiFi. Looking for ability to design custom Flow Files, use ListS3/Fetch
  
  S3, and implement complex routing…