Northrop Grumman Mission Systems (NGMS) is seeking a Staff 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 Staff Embedded Software Engineer within the Software and Digital Technologies Organization, you will have a challenging and rewarding opportunity to be a part of our Software Architecture group. The new team member will work on software systems for mission systems in all phases of the software development lifecycle, primarily in C/C++. The new team member will be responsible for architecting software within the domain of Mission Operational Flight Programs (OFPs) and elements of Mission Systems that interact with OFPs. 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:
- Drive architectural decisions that support development and maturation of mission system software.
- Participate in a product line ecosystem and support development and maturation of software building blocks.
- Collaborate with other software and systems architects to maximize re-use and software portability
- Provide product ownership, tasking, and technical direction for a team of embedded software engineers
- Analyze, develop, modify, and test existing software, apply modern development techniques that take advantage of all that current technology has to offer
- Identify risks, suggest mitigation, track defects, develop resolutions, and report status
- Work alongside multi-disciplined engineering teams to provide technical leadership, derive requirements, and design solutions
- Work with Systems Integration and Test to test and verify software products on simulators and actual production hardware in our System Integration Laboratories
- Leverage advancements in Digital Twins and Models and Simulation to perform early integration, drive down risk, and verify performance and requirements as early as possible
- Identify and assess new technologies prior to implementation
- 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
- Represent the software team for program management office and customer engagements
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.
- Must be able to obtain a Secret Clearance. 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.
- Experience working in C/C++ writing highly resource efficient code
- Experience developing real-time and near real-time embedded software
- Experience with full software lifecycle: specification, design, implementation, integration, debug and maintenance
- Must have experience developing Mission System Software (sensor modes, resource management, navigation, scheduling, platform interfaces, sensor interfaces).
- Must have experience deriving software requirements and design from systems requirements
- Must have experience integrating software into mission systems hardware
- Must have experience working with Linux
- Must have experience with RF subsystems (e.g. radar)
- Must have experience with Government Mission Systems architectures
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience contributing to and executing a software product line
- Experience with Windows, VxWorks, and Linux Operating Systems
- Experience with Matlab
- Experience with Cameo
- Experience designing and developing software across multiple operating system environments
- Experience with Coverity, SonarQube and/or Klockwork tools
- Experience with Jenkins and contributing to a DevOps pipelines
- Experience in Open Architecture Solutions
- Experience with the Atlassian tool set, GitLab, CMake, Kubernetes, Model Based Engineering, and DevSecOps best practices
Primary Level Salary Range: $169,000.00 - $253,600.00The above salary range represents a general guideline; however, Northrop Grumman considers a number of factors when determining base salary offers such as the scope and responsibilities of the position and the candidate's experience, education, skills and current market conditions.Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay. Annual bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions as well as allow employees to share in company results. Employees in Vice President or Director positions may be eligible for Long Term Incentives. In addition, Northrop Grumman provides a variety of benefits including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, savings plan, Company paid holidays and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business.The application period for the job is estimated to be 20 days from the job posting date. However, this timeline may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates.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 our complete EEO and pay transparency statement, please visit http://www.northropgrumman.com/EEO. U.S. Citizenship is required for all positions with a government clearance and certain other restricted positions.
Skills Required
- Bachelor’s degree in a STEM field with 12 years of related experience, or master’s degree with 10 years, or Ph.D. with 8 years
- U.S. citizenship
- Active Secret clearance required to start
- Ability to obtain Special Program Access and maintain required clearance and access
- Experience writing highly resource-efficient C/C++ code
- Experience developing real-time and near-real-time embedded software
- Experience across the full software lifecycle, including specification, design, implementation, integration, debugging, and maintenance
- Experience developing mission system software, including sensor modes, resource management, navigation, scheduling, platform interfaces, and sensor interfaces
- Experience deriving software requirements and designs from systems requirements
- Experience integrating software into mission-system hardware
- Experience working with Linux
- Experience with RF subsystems, such as radar
- Experience with government mission-systems architectures
- Experience contributing to and executing a software product line
- Experience with Windows, VxWorks, and Linux operating systems
- Experience with MATLAB
- Experience with Cameo
- Experience designing and developing software across multiple operating-system environments
- Experience with Coverity, SonarQube, or Klockwork
- Experience with Jenkins and contributing to DevOps pipelines
- Experience with open architecture solutions
- Experience with Atlassian tools, GitLab, CMake, Kubernetes, model-based engineering, and DevSecOps practices
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