Sentinel Software Integration Engineer R10228226-2

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE:
Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START:
Yes

CLEARANCE TYPE:
Secret

TRAVEL:
Yes, 10% of the Time

Northrop Grumman has an opening for a Staff Software Integration Engineer to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals. This position can be located in Huntsville, AL or Roy, UT.

As a full-time employee of Northrop Grumman, you are eligible for our robust benefits package including:

• 401k
• Educational Assistance
• Life Insurance
• Employee Assistance Programs & Work/Life Solutions
• Paid Time Off
• Health & Wellness Resources
• Employee Discounts

This positions standard work schedule is a 9/80. The 9/80 schedule allows employees who work a nine-hour day Monday through Thursday to take every other Friday off. This role may offer a competitive relocation assistance package.

• Python proficiency – writing clean, testable code; familiarity with virtual environments, packaging, and type hints
• Embedded/hardware interfaces – UART, SPI, I²C, CAN, USB, JTAG, GPIO, PWM, ADC/DAC
• Real-time operating systems (RTOS) or bare-metal development basics
• Hardware description/validation tools – Oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, multimeters, power supplies, test rigs
• Firmware build systems – Make, CMake for cross-compilation
• Version control – Git (branching, sub-modules, pull-request workflow)
• CI/CD for embedded – Jenkins, Git Hub Actions, Git Lab CI with hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) runners

• Designing and implementing drivers/APIs that expose hardware functionality to Python
• Using communication protocols (Modbus, MQTT, OPC?
  
  UA) to bridge software services and devices
• Managing bootloaders, firmware upgrades, and configuration flashing

• Unit/Component testing – pytest, unittest, hypothesis for pure-Python modules