Associate Software Quality Engineer​/Quality Engineer - Melbourne FL

Relocation assistance may be available.

Clearance required for start:
Yes.

Clearance type:
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 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 and 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.

We are seeking Software Quality engineers. This position will be located on‑site in our Aeronautics Systems Sector, Melbourne, FL. The qualified candidate will become part of Northrop Grumman’s Mission Assurance organization.

The selected candidate will develop, modify, apply, and maintain quality evaluation and control systems and protocols for processing materials into partially finished or finished products. Other duties include:

• Collaborate with engineering and manufacturing functions to ensure quality standards are in place.
• Devise and implement methods and procedures for inspecting, testing, and evaluating the precision and accuracy of products and production equipment.
• Design and analyze inspection and testing processes, mechanisms, and equipment; conduct quality assurance tests; and perform statistical analysis to assess the cost of and determine responsibility for products or materials that do not meet required standards and specifications.
• Audit quality systems for deficiency identification and correction.
• Ensure that corrective measures meet acceptable reliability standards and that documentation is compliant with requirements.
• May specialize in areas such as design, incoming material, production control, product evaluation and reliability, inventory control, and/or research and development as they apply to product or process quality.
• May be certified in lean and six‑sigma quality engineering methodologies.

This requisition may be filled as either an Associate Engineer Software Quality or an Engineer Software Quality.

A candidate, regardless of age and hiring source, must meet ALL of the following criteria:

• Be completing or has completed a Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution by August 2026.
• Major in or have majored in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Industrial/Industrial & Systems Engineering, Data Science, Mathematics, or another related STEM degree.
• Be able to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government Secret security clearance (U.S. citizenship is a prerequisite) as well as Special Access Program clearance within a reasonable period of time, as determined by the company to meet its business needs.
• Final approved U.S. Government Secret security clearance AND final Special Access Program clearance are required to start.

A candidate, regardless of age and hiring source, must meet ALL of the following:

• Be completing or has completed a Master’s degree from an accredited institution by August 2026.
• Major in or have majored in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Industrial/Industrial & Systems Engineering, Data Science, Mathematics, or another related STEM degree.
• Be able to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government Secret security clearance (U.S. citizenship is a prerequisite) as well as Special Access Program clearance within a reasonable period of time, as determined by the company to meet its business needs.
• Final approved U.S. Government Secret security clearance AND final Special Access Program clearance are required to start.

• Experience in at least one coding language.
• Experience with AS9100 Quality Management System (QMS).
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