Staff Engineer Software; Radar​/Tracking - R10225423

Relocation Assistance

Relocation assistance may be available

Required for start:
Yes

Clearance type:
Secret

Travel:
Yes, 10% of the Time

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Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems Sector

Staff Engineer Software (Radar/Tracking)

Melbourne, Florida.

This position is primarily engaged in the development and fielding of target tracking and sensor fusion systems for advanced multi‑function RF and EOIR subsystems. Key features of operation include analyzing, shaping, and relating data from a wide variety of modes, such as: long‑range search and track radar waveforms, electronic surveillance measure returns, and electro‑optic/infrared video inputs. You will have the opportunity to become the subject‑matter expert for the target tracking (TRK) CSCI and contribute to the overall design of the software.

• Participate in the full life cycle of software development, to include requirements development, modeling and design, application development, unit to CSCI testing, integration, formal system testing, release, installation, and maintenance.
• Apply technical expertise in solving complex integration problems.
• Interact with Program Management, external suppliers and/or government customers.

• Full lifecycle design, implementation, and unit testing of software.
• Work with various team members to integrate functionality with other software components.
• Ability to lead a team and/or provide leadership to drive solutions of complex problems.
• Support software working groups with the customer.
• Ensure software best practices are followed.
• Ability to analyze the system as a whole and determine potential impacts of integrating new technologies.
• Develop software products within all phases of the software lifecycle.
• Ability to debug complex tracking problems, often working with Systems Engineering.
• Develop and support systems to receive, store, process, display, correlate, fuse and forward surface data [GMTI, Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), Maritime Moving Target Indicator (MMTI), Inverse Synthetic Aperture Radar (ISAR), High Range Resolution (HRR) and Electronic Protection (EP)] from multiple sources.
• Developing software products implemented from algorithms.
• In‑depth working knowledge from tracker fundamentals through fusion, parametric and correlating trackers.
• Candidate must be able to create/modify/debug a tracker/fusion simulation tool and create realistic simulations; simulate sensor data, simulate clutter and FAR, etc.; knowledge of surveillance, targeting, etc. scenarios.
• In‑depth understanding basic differences between airborne tracking vs. ground tracking including clutter environments, FAR, impacts of target velocity, impacts of sensor update rates, road networks (ground), geographic gates (air), track grouping, etc.

• (Staff Engineer Software) Bachelor’s degree and 14 or more years of experience in software engineering OR a Master’s degree and 12 or more years of experience OR a PhD degree and 9 or more years of experience.
• Higher proficiency understanding and developing multi‑target trackers, adaptive processing, or sensor fusion algorithms.
• Demonstrated programming experience/expertise in C/C++ or other OO language.
• Proficiency in at least one high‑productivity + one high‑performance language (e.g., MATLAB + C++), with strong fundamentals in algorithms,…