Senior Principal Engineer Software

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, but they’re also making history.

Senior Principal Software Engineer – Melbourne, FL. This role is primarily on‑site in our office spaces to support program and business needs. The position will support capture and strategy for a key and critical program, working closely with business development, business directors, external customers, and subject matter experts to shape the feasibility of new missions and architectures. Operating on a 9/80 schedule means you will get every other Friday off.

Remote or hybrid work is not available.

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. The job includes shaping long‑term technical strategy to evolve and deliver software architecture enabling various DoD missions. Lead mission decomposition into functions, requirements, interface definitions that can be implemented by software developers.

• Senior Principal Software Architect (T04):
  Bachelor’s Degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) discipline and at least 8 years’ experience, or STEM master’s degree with 6 years’ experience, or a STEM PhD with 4 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 determined by the company to meet business needs.
• Contingency:
  Ability to obtain a DoD Top Secret Clearance
  , can start with interim Top Secret.
• Experience designing and implementing onboard 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.

Primary Level Salary Range: $98,400.00 - $. The above range is a general guideline;
Northrop Grumman considers factors such as scope, responsibilities, and candidate experience, education, skills, and market conditions when determining base salary offers.

Employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, discretionary bonuses, and long‑term incentives. Benefits include health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, a savings plan, company‑paid holidays, and paid time off for vacation or personal business.

Job Category:
Engineering

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U.S. Citizenship is required for all positions with a government clearance and certain other restricted positions.