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 just part of history;

they’re making it.

This position is in Melbourne, FL and will be primarily based on site within our office spaces to support the program and business needs. It does not have remote or hybrid work available.

We are seeking a talented and highly motivated software engineer 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. The 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, and interface definitions that can be implemented by software developers.

• Senior Principal Software Architect (T04):
  Bachelor’s Degree in a 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 as determined by the company.
• 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 Systems 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 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 current market conditions.

Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay. Annual bonuses reward individual contributions and allowed employees to share in company results. Employees in Vice President or Director positions may be eligible for Long Term Incentives. The company 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 the 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.