Principal Engineer Software; SW & HW integration and Test - R10221197

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE:
Relocation assistance may be available.

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 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 Aeronautics Systems Sector has an opening for a Principal Engineer Software (SW & HW integration and Test) to join Global Surveillance Division supporting the team of qualified, diverse individuals. This position will be located in Melbourne, Florida.

Responsibilities will include deploying, automating, maintaining, troubleshooting, and improving the systems and software infrastructure running smoothly. This role requires you to have hands‑on technical experience and a can‑do approach towards environmental automation and management along with continuous improvements. You will be a team member working in an agile development process. You will be responsible for the design and implementation of application builds, releases, deployment along with configuration activities.

Your responsibilities will include working with internal business partners to gather requirements, prototyping, and architecting complex solutions supporting the building and test plan execution, performing quality reviews, and triaging and fixing operational issues.

• Work in an innovative environment, on significantly diverse assignments, and in collaborative team settings across all levels
• Participate in the full software development life cycle including requirements, design, implementation, qualification, and delivery of software products to our customers
• Full lifecycle design, implementation, and unit testing of software
• Apply extensive technical expertise and have full knowledge of other related disciplines. Able to communicate effectively and clearly present technical approaches and findings
• Provide technical solutions to a wide range of complex difficult problems that are imaginative, thorough, practicable, and consistent with programs objectives
• In depth understanding and wide application of technical principle, theories, and concepts in the field listed under the basic qualifications
• Design, develop, document, test and debug applications software and systems that contain logical and mathematical solutions
• Conduct multidisciplinary research when needed and collaborates with equipment designers and/or hardware engineers in the planning, design, development, and utilization of electronic data processing systems for product
• Work with various team members to integrate functionality with other software components
• Supporting the gathering and reporting software metrics
• Follow program software best practices
• Develop software products within all phases of the software lifecycle

• Bachelor’s degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) discipline and 5+ years of experience in software engineering OR Master’s degree in STEM discipline and 3+ years of experience in software engineering
• Experience with test automation tools and frameworks
• Knowledge with Software Change Control, Change Management, and CI/CD tools such as the Atlassian tool suite (Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, Bamboo), Git Hub, Git Lab, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes
• Solid understanding of object‑oriented programming languages, including C/C++ and Python
• Development experience with C/C++ or other OOP languages
• Experience with configuration management using industry standard tools and processes
• Knowledge of various…