Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems Sector has an opening for an Engineer Software or Principal Engineer Software to join Global Surveillance Division supporting the team of qualified, diverse individuals. This position will be located in Melbourne, Florida.
Responsibilities will include designing, testing, maintaining, troubleshooting, and improving the systems and software. The role requires you to have hands on technical experience and a can-do approach towards environment automation and management along with continuous improvements.
You will be a team member working in agile development process. You will be responsible for the design and implementation of application builds, releases, deployment along with configuration activities. Your responsibilities will include working with internal business partners to gather requirements, prototyping, and architecting complex solutions supporting the building and test plan execution, performing quality reviews, and triaging and fixing operational issues. The candidate will assist with the integration, troubleshooting and testing of implemented software changes. The ideal candidate will have the ability to take ownership of an ambiguous hard problems and drive to a solution, while working in a team environment. It is critical that you understand the software development life cycle and have an in-depth knowledge of automated testing to facilitate and analyze large data sets. The Software Engineer will develop, modify, and maintain customized or standardized applications using software engineering best practices and standards, and participate in the full life cycle of software development, to include requirements development, modeling and design, application development, unit to CSCI testing, integration, formal system testing, release, installation, and maintenance.
Essential Functions:
• Full lifecycle design, implementation, and unit testing of software
• Work with various team members to integrate functionality with other software components.
• Supporting the gathering and reporting software metrics.
• Follow program software best practices.
• Develop software products within all phases of the software lifecycle.
This role can be filled at either a T02 or T03 level.
Basic Qualifications:
• (Engineer Software T02) bachelor’s degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) discipline and 2 or more years of experience in software engineering
OR a Master’s degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) discipline and 0 or more years of experience in software engineering
• (Principal Engineer Software T03) bachelor’s degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) discipline and 5 or more years of experience in software engineering
OR a Master’s degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) discipline and 3 or more years of experience in software engineering
OR a PhD degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) discipline and 1 or more years of experience in software engineering.
• Development experience with C/C++ languages.
• Experience developing software in a Linux or Windows environment.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills and Strong interpersonal skills.
• US citizen with ability to transfer and maintain a DoD Secret level security clearance. Clearance is required to start.
• Ability to obtain and maintain special program access.
• Willingness to work off-peak for short term surge support to meet program milestones
Preferred Qualifications:
• Familiarity with the Atlassian tool suite with add-ons like Git and Confluence.
• Experience with C/C++ desktop application development
• Experience with multithreaded desktop application development
• Familiarity with the Agile software development process.
• Full software development life cycle experience.
• Experience with DOORS and/or Cameo UML Modeling experience or similar tools.
• Experience with formal software test and Weapon System evaluations.
• US citizen with a current in scope DoD secret or higher clearance.
• Currently the holder of a special program access.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in a STEM discipline and 2+ years software engineering experience (T02) or 5+ years for Principal (T03).
- Master's degree in a STEM discipline and 0+ years software engineering experience (T02) or 3+ years (T03).
- PhD in a STEM discipline and 1+ years software engineering experience (T03).
- Development experience with C/C++.
- Experience developing software in a Linux or Windows environment.
- In-depth knowledge of automated testing and software development lifecycle.
- Excellent oral and written communication and strong interpersonal skills.
- US citizen with ability to transfer and maintain a DoD Secret level security clearance; clearance required to start.
- Ability to obtain and maintain special program access.
- Willingness to work off-peak for short term surge support to meet program milestones.
- Familiarity with the Atlassian tool suite and add-ons like Git and Confluence.
- Experience with C/C++ desktop application development.
- Experience with multithreaded desktop application development.
- Familiarity with the Agile software development process.
- Experience with DOORS and/or Cameo UML Modeling or similar tools.
- Experience with formal software test and weapon system evaluations.
- Current in-scope DoD Secret or higher clearance.
- Currently the holder of a special program access.
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The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Northrop Grumman and has not been reviewed or approved by Northrop Grumman.
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Retirement Support — 401(k) matching is considered strong, with additional defined-benefit coverage for certain cohorts and options like catch-up contributions. Retirement programs are repeatedly highlighted as a core strength of the total rewards.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — PTO, company-paid holidays, and compressed work schedules (such as 9/80) provide meaningful time away and flexibility. These scheduling options are cited as a major quality-of-life benefit across many locations.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave alongside caregiver leave, adoption assistance, and back-up care supports a range of family needs. These programs have been expanded recently, signaling continued investment in family support.
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