Northrop Grumman Mission Systems (NGMS) is seeking a Staff Embedded Software Engineer Integrated Product Team (IPT) Lead to lead a cross‑discipline engineering team, manage cost accounts across one or more programs, and serve as a primary interface with Engineering and Program Management. The selected candidate will operate in a fast‑paced environment with high expectations, a wide variety of technical and leadership responsibilities, and a strong emphasis on collaboration and teamwork.
What You’ll Get To Do:
As a Staff Embedded Software Engineer IPT Lead within the Software and Digital Technologies (SWDT) Organization you will have a challenging and rewarding opportunity to be a part of our Enterprise-wide digital transformation. Using Model-based Engineering, DevSecOps and Agile practices we continue to evolve how we deliver critical national defense products and capabilities for the warfighter. 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 and shared responsibility, flexibility, continuous learning and a culture of automation.
Roles and Responsibilities:
- Lead and direct cross-functional engineering teams during a program’s EMD phase
- Develop and execute to project budgets and schedules, including Earned Value Management System (EVMS), critical path management, Estimates-at-Completion (EACs), and workload forecasts
- Lead staffing efforts for each team, ensuring appropriate skill mix and coverage
- Plan and coordinate bench time priorities across engineering program initiatives
- Manage and maintain Jira boards to track progress and issues, documenting and resolving blockers impacting team performance
- Maintain and communicate delivery schedules
- Support proposal development and new program acquisition efforts
- Interpret statements of work assigned by program leadership
- Work with suppliers and be able to articulate project requirements
- Brief internal and external customer leadership on progress of work assigned
“This position may be contingent based on anticipated contract award and funding.”
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Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree in a STEM field with 12 years of related experience, Master’s degree with 10 years of related experience, Ph.D. with 8 years of related experience
- U.S Citizenship is required.
- Active DoD Secret Clearance required. Active Secret is required to start. Ability to obtain Special Program Access (SAP) is required, candidates must obtain SAP prior to starting. Must be able to maintain this level of clearance and special program access for continued employment.
- Must have 2 years of experience as a Control Account Manager (CAM) managing Earned Value Management System (EVMS) projects
- Must have 8 years experience with real-time embedded software.
- Must have 10 years experience with full software lifecycle: specification, design, implementation, integration, debug and maintenance is required
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience working on an EMD program as a systems or software engineer
- Demonstrated knowledge of radar mode development
- Fluency with developing and executing project schedules
- Experience with Atlassian tool suite
- Proficient in using advance MS Excel macros, functions, and pivots
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in STEM with 12 years related experience (Master's with 10 years or Ph.D. with 8 years)
- U.S. Citizenship required
- Active DoD Secret clearance required to start
- Ability to obtain and maintain Special Program Access (SAP) prior to starting
- Minimum 2 years experience as a Control Account Manager (CAM) managing EVMS projects
- Minimum 8 years experience with real-time embedded software
- Minimum 10 years experience with full software lifecycle: specification, design, implementation, integration, debug and maintenance
- Manage and maintain Jira boards and track program engineering progress
Northrop Grumman Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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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What We Do
We are a close-knit community of big thinkers collaborating to keep the world safe. Our passion, creativity and expertise bring next-level technology solutions to life in autonomous systems, cyber, C4ISR, strike, space, and logistics and modernization for our customers around the globe. On the Northrop Grumman team, you’ll join our pursuit of excellence immersed in a dynamic culture of innovation and respect. Your unique perspective will help achieve our shared vision for the future of global security. Every step of the way, you'll be supported by world-class training, employee resource groups and a comprehensive benefits package that enables greater health and happiness for you and your family. Worldwide and across disciplines, we’re challenging what’s possible for technology to protect people and places from undersea to outer space and into cyberspace. And we see the impact of our performance every day. We are Northrop Grumman, and we work on what matters—now, you too can make a difference. Explore opportunities in engineering, IT, manufacturing, business management, cybersecurity and more with us. Northrop Grumman is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.



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