Associate Software Engineer

Location: Township of Palatine

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE:
Relocation assistance may be available CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START:
Yes

CLEARANCE TYPE:
Secret TRAVEL:
Yes, 10% of the Time Description 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 Mission Systems is a trusted provider of mission-enabling solutions for global security. Our Engineering and Sciences (E&S) organization 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!

As an Associate Embedded Software Engineer at Northrop Grumman, you will have a challenging and rewarding opportunity to be a part of our mission to deliver critical national defense products and capabilities for the warfighter. Our success is grounded in our ability to embrace change, move quickly and continuously drive innovation. The successful candidate will be collaborative, open, transparent, and team-oriented with a focus on team empowerment and shared responsibility, flexibility, continuous learning, and a culture of automation.

Northrop Grumman is looking to add to our talented team of Embedded Software Engineers. Our engineers are self-starters who are part of a team of software professionals developing world-class software to meet our customer’s high expectations. The Embedded Software Engineer designs, develops, operates, and maintains software and firmware components and computing systems software to be applied to and integrated with engineering, scientific and manufacturing requirements.

The individual shall apply the appropriate standards, processes, procedures, and tools throughout the system development life cycle to support the generation of engineering applications and products within the RFCIS Business Unit. This includes interfacing with customers, suppliers, application users and other technical and support personnel. The ideal individual will have experience including the full software development life cycle, which includes requirements, design, coding, testing, and integration.

This position will be full-time and on-site at our Rolling Meadows, IL. location

Basic Qualifications for Associate Embedded Software Engineer:

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Computer Engineering, or similar engineering discipline with 1+ years of relevant software engineering experience

Familiar with Object Oriented Programming in C++Familiarity with Software architecture (design patterns, objected oriented design)
Familiarity with scripting languages (Python, Bash, Batch, etc)
Familiarity with operating system concepts for embedded systems

Familiarity with software development methodologies and frameworks such as Waterfall Methodology and/or Agile Familiarity with various version control systems (Git, Gitlabs, Github, Bitbucket, Clear Case. etc) and Agile software planning tools (Rally, Jira, etc)
US Citizen Must be able to obtain Active Secret clearance prior to starting.

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience with Object Oriented Programming in C++11

Knowledge in Software architecture (design patterns, objected oriented design)
Knowledge with scripting languages (Python, Bash, Batch, etc)

Experience with Software development methodologies and frameworks such as Waterfall Methodology and/or Agile Experience Developing Embedded Software running Linux or VxWorks Operating Systems Experience testing, debugging, and integrating Embedded Software on target hardware

Experience with complex systems of systems that utilize Parallel Processing, Multi-Threading, Distributed Processing, Multi-Core,…