Principal Software Engineer - Embedded

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, they’re making history.

Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems is looking to a Principal Embedded Software Engineer to join our team on site in Rancho Bernardo, CA
. The candidate should be a self-starter with familiarity working in an Integrated Product Team construct.

• Work in a fast-paced environment with high expectations, significantly diverse assignments, and collaborative team settings across all levels
• Participate in the full SW development life cycle including requirements, design, implementation, qualification, and delivery of SW products to our customers
• Operate in an embedded technology development environment working with real time operating systems for use in flight and mission critical systems
• Work in Agile Scrum teams to develop SW products for multiple SW baselines
• Design, develop, integrate and test software (SW) for our end-user customers and businesses.
• Be responsible for the design, architecture, development, and administration of embedded and real time systems.
• Work with multi-disciplinary teams, such as Systems Engineering, Cloud & Application, Test Automation, Dev Sec Ops  and Systems Test, in an Agile SW development environment.
• Analyze system capabilities to resolve problems on program intent, output requirements, input data acquisition, programming techniques and controls.

The selected candidate will be required to work full-time, on-site at our facility. There is no remote / hybrid / telework available for this position. Travel up to 25% may be required.

• Bachelor’s Degree in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) discipline and 5 years of related engineering experience; OR a Master’s degree in a STEM discipline and 3 years of related engineering experience; OR a PhD in a STEM discipline and 1 years of related engineering experience.
• Experience with the full SW Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Experience with the following programming and scripting languages: C, C++, and Python
• Recent experience and proficiency in software architecture, design, implementation, integration, and debugging C++ SW
• Experience with developing multi-threaded SW used for one of the following real-time applications: flight critical SW, Safety critical SW, medical SW, or mission critical SW
• Experience with Agile SW development, embedded system programming, SW integration and testing
• Excellent communication, interpersonal skills, and the ability to interface with all levels of employees and management
• Active U.S. Government Top Secret clearance (with a background investigation within the past 5 years or enrolled into Continuous Evaluation).
• Ability to obtain and maintain initial Special Access Program (SAP) access via a Program Access Request (PAR). This SAP/PAR must be obtained prior to commencement of employment and must be obtained within a reasonable amount of time as determined by the company to meet its business needs.
• Note:
  
  SAP/PAR will be upgraded once selected candidate is in role. Therefore, candidate must also be able to obtain and maintain upgraded SAP/PAR.

• Current applicable Special Access Program (SAP) clearance.
• Active DoD Top Secret SCI clearance (with a background investigation within the past 5 years or…