Northrop Grumman Mission Systems (NGMS) is seeking a Consulting Embedded Software Engineer to join our innovative Software and Digital Technologies Organization. This position is located in Baltimore, MD.
What You’ll Get To Do:
As a Consulting Embedded Software Engineer within the Software and Digital Technologies Organization, you will have a challenging and rewarding opportunity to be a part of our Radar Software Development group with a focus on Advanced Land Sensors. The new team member will work on software systems in all phases of the software development lifecycle, primarily in C/C++. The new team member will be responsible for developing software to control existing and new generations of RF subsystems. Our success is grounded in our ability to embrace change, move quickly and continuously drive innovation. The successful candidate will be collaborative, open, transparent, and team oriented with a focus on team empowerment & shared responsibility, flexibility, continuous learning and a culture of automation.
Roles and Responsibilities:
- Analyze, develop, modify, and test existing Radar software
- Perform data analysis of production test data
- Perform data analysis of performance data collected from fielded systems
- Identify risks, suggest mitigation, track defects, develop resolutions, and report status
- Work alongside multi-disciplined engineering teams to test and verify software products in test environments and actual production hardware in our System Integration Laboratories
- Active participation with systems engineering in technical peer, design, architecture, and system reviews to ensure system/software requirements are being met from an end-to-end system point of view
- Create and deliver presentations to internal and customer stakeholders
"The salary range is based on a full-time schedule and will be prorated to the extent the schedule is reduced."
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree in a STEM field with 16 years of related experience, Master’s degree with 14 years of related experience, Ph.D. with 12 years of related experience
- U.S Citizenship is required.
- Must be able to obtain a Secret Clearance. Active Secret is required to start. Must be able to maintain this level of clearance for continued employment.
- Must have experience working in C/C++ writing highly resource efficient code
- Must have experience developing real-time and near real-time embedded software
- Must have experience with full software lifecycle: specification, design, implementation, integration, debug and maintenance
- Must have experience working with Intel processors
- Must have experience working with VxWorks and Linux operating systems
- Must have experience with MatLab
- Must have experience with Radar system development
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with Radar control and signal processing
- Experience analyzing Radar performance data
- Experience trouble shooting Radar system performance issues
- Experience analyzing production test data and developing corrective actions
- Experience analyzing operational field performance data
- Experience reviewing software updates of less domain experienced engineers
- Experience providing consultation for maintaining and improving critical test and analysis infrastructure
- Experience serving as a Radar software technical authority to internal and customer stakeholders
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in a STEM field with 16 years of related experience, master's degree with 14 years, or Ph.D. with 12 years
- U.S. citizenship
- Active Secret clearance at start and ability to maintain it
- Experience writing highly resource-efficient C/C++ code
- Experience developing real-time and near-real-time embedded software
- Experience with the full software lifecycle, including specification, design, implementation, integration, debugging, and maintenance
- Experience working with Intel processors
- Experience with VxWorks and Linux operating systems
- Experience with MATLAB
- Experience with radar system development
- Experience with radar control and signal processing
- Experience analyzing radar performance data
- Experience troubleshooting radar system performance issues
- Experience analyzing production test data and developing corrective actions
- Experience analyzing operational field performance data
- Experience reviewing software updates from less domain-experienced engineers
- Experience consulting on critical test and analysis infrastructure
- Experience serving as a radar software technical authority
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