Software Engineer - R10232376

Overview

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE:
Relocation assistance may be available.

CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START:
Yes.

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 Aerospace Systems Sector has an opening for a Staff Software Engineer. This architect will lead technical efforts supporting capture and strategy for a key and critical program. This position will support a 9/80 schedule and is based in Melbourne, FL and will be primarily based on site within our office spaces to support the program and business needs. The position does not have remote or hybrid work available.

We are seeking a talented and highly motivated software architect with experience in communicating with customers, stakeholders, software developers, system engineers, and senior leadership to collect mission requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, develop feature roadmaps, and product strategy. Job includes shaping the long‑term technical strategy to evolve and deliver software architecture to enable various DoD missions. Lead mission decomposition into functions, requirements, interface definitions that can be implemented by software developers.

Ensure the software architecture remains aligned with Government Reference Architectures (GRAs).

• Staff Software Architect (T05):
  Bachelor’s Degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) discipline and at least 12 years’ experience, or STEM master’s degree with 10 years’ experience, or a STEM PHD with 8 years’ engineering experience.
• This position requires the ability to obtain and maintain a DoD Top Secret clearance as well as Program Special Access within a reasonable amount of time as determined by the company to meet its business needs.
• Contingency:
  This position is contingent upon ability to obtain a DoD Top Secret Clearance, can start with interim Top Secret.
• Experience with Agile best practices and processes; tasking, accountability, interception, process enforcement.
• Experience designing and architecting on-board mission system software ensuring portability, modularity, adaptability, and scalability.
• Knowledge of engineering practices and patterns for the full software/hardware/network development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and V&V.
• Experience designing micro-service based containerized software using open standards.

• Experience with capture activities, including RFI/RFP preparation, customer presentations and demonstrations, and competitor analysis.
• Experience with Government Reference Architectures like DoDAF, MOSA, OMS, FACE, and/or UCI.
• Comms and RF Systems Experience.
• Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, scaling) operational user experiences.
• Systems Engineering and Cameo Modeling.
• Experience collecting and analyzing CPU throughput utilization, data bus bandwidth utilization, and CPU memory utilization statistics.
• Experience integrating sensors and payloads from suppliers.

Primary Level Salary Range: $ - $. The above salary range represents a general guideline; however, Northrop Grumman considers a number of factors when determining base salary offers such as the scope and responsibilities of the position and the candidate’s experience, education, skills and…