Software Engineer; MOSA SME

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE:
Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START:
Yes

CLEARANCE TYPE:
Top Secret

TRAVEL:
Yes, 10% of the Time

Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems Sector has an opening for a Staff Software Engineer with a strong background in Modular Open System Architectures (MOSA) to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals. 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.

This position will be supporting capture and strategy for a key and critical program. The candidate will closely work with business development, business directors, external customers, and external subject matter experts to shape the feasibility of new missions and architectures.

We are seeking a talented and highly motivated software engineer with experience 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.

• Staff Software Architect (T05):
  Bachelor’s Degree in a 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.
• 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 developing and integrating Open Mission System (OMS) ICD and Service Contract development.
• Experience with sensor integration, ground and flight support.
• Experience designing and implementing on-board mission system software ensuring portability, modularity, adaptability, and scalability.
• Experience with Agile best practices and processes—tasking, accountability, interception, process enforcement.
• Experience developing software in real-time, multi-threaded architecture.
• Experience developing in C/C++ and/or Java.
• Experience developing and debugging hardware/software systems.
• 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 integrating hardware/software from suppliers into avionic platforms.
• Comms and RF Systems Experience.
• Experienced in Model Based System Engineering including use of Cameo Modeling.
• Experience designing or architecting operational user experiences (design patterns, scaling).
• Experience collecting and analyzing CPU throughput utilization, data bus bandwidth utilization, and CPU memory utilization statistics.

Primary Level Salary Range: $ - $

Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay. Annual bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions as well as allow employees to share in company results. Employees in Vice President or Director positions may be eligible for Long Term Incentives. In addition, Northrop Grumman provides a variety of benefits including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, savings plan, company paid holidays and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business.

Northrop Grumman is an Equal Opportunity Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class. For our complete EEO and pay transparency statement, please visit  U.S. Citizenship is required for all positions with a government clearance and certain other restricted positions.

Job Category:
Engineering