Software Engineer

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, they're making history.

This position will be based in Melbourne, FL, with a 9/80 schedule. It is not available for remote or hybrid work.

• Support capture and strategy for a key and critical program.
• Work closely with business development, business directors, external customers, and subject matter experts to shape the feasibility of new missions and architectures.
• Engage 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.
• Shape 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.
• Ensure the software architecture remains aligned with Government Reference Architectures (GRAs).

• Staff Software Architect (T05):
  Bachelor’s Degree in a STEM discipline with at least 12 years of experience, or a STEM master’s degree with 10 years of experience, or a STEM PhD with 8 years of engineering experience.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a DoD Top Secret clearance and Program Special Access.
• Experience with Agile best practices and processes.
• Experience designing and architecting on‑board mission system software ensuring portability, modularity, adaptability, and scalability.
• 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 designing micro‑service based containerized software using open standards.

• Experience with capture activities, including RFI/RFP preparation, customer presentations and demonstrations, and competitor analysis.
• Experience with Government Reference Architectures such as DoDAF, MOSA, OMS, FACE, and/or UCI.
• Communications and RF Systems experience.
• Experience designing or architecting operational user experiences.
• Systems Engineering and Cameo Modeling expertise.
• Experience collecting and analyzing CPU throughput utilization, data bus bandwidth utilization, and CPU memory utilization statistics.
• Experience integrating sensors and payloads from suppliers.

Primary Level Salary Range: $ – $. The above range is a general guideline; base salary offers may vary based on scope, responsibilities, experience, education, skills, and market conditions.

Employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and discretionary bonus in addition to base pay. Annual bonuses reward individual contributions and company results. Vice President or Director positions may be eligible for Long‑Term Incentives.

Benefits include health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, savings plan, company paid holidays, and paid time off 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 a 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.