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Requisition ID: R10176747

• Category: Engineering

• Location: Manhattan Beach, California, United States of America

• Clearance Type: Secret

• Telecommute: No- Teleworking not available for this position

• Shift: 1st Shift (United States of America)

• Travel Required: Yes, 10% of the Time

• Relocation Assistance: Relocation assistance may be available

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.

Strategic Space Systems Division (SSSD) is an industry-leading provider for launch systems capabilities serving national security, military, and civil customers. We are built on a heritage of providing innovative, affordable, and reliable aerospace and defense products that our customers rely on to achieve mission success. Join the Space revolution and make the impossible, possible.

Northrop Grumman Strategic Space Systems is looking for you to join our team as a Principal / Sr. Principal Software Engineer with the Software Engineering organization based out of Manhattan Beach, CA.

• Please be aware that this position will be contingent upon capturing program award, obtaining customer funding, and holding final clearances prior to start date *

The Software Engineer will develop software which will operate in a resource constrained target environment with soft and hard real time requirements for various flight/space/ground systems. The software will typically implement complex data analysis, data routing, and/or control systems algorithms. Candidate will need familiarity with various processor, memory, and I/O architectures and be able to implement both procedural and object-oriented software in C++. The selected candidate will work with real-time operating systems, such as Linux or VxWorks, and their associated host/development environments and tools. The selected candidate must be comfortable working in a lab environment.

Additional responsibilities include (but are not limited to):

• Design, develop, document, test and debug applications software and systems that contain logical and mathematical solutions.

• Conduct multidisciplinary research and collaborate with equipment designers and/or hardware engineers in the planning, design, development, and utilization of electronic data processing systems for product software.

• Determine overall system and user needs; analyze system capabilities to resolve problems on program intent, output requirements, input data acquisition, programming techniques and controls; prepares operating instructions; designs and develops utility programs.

• Ensure software standards are met.

The ideal candidate should have academic and work experience in software engineering and development across the full life cycle for automated test sets/test systems on aerospace programs. Experience working in a process-oriented environment utilizing waterfall, spiral, or agile processes is also desired. The selected candidate should also have strong verbal and written communication skills and be comfortable working on large teams with talented engineering from other engineering disciplines.

• This position is contingent upon capturing program award, obtaining customer funding, and holding final clearances prior to start date. *

This requisition may be filled at either a Principal Software Engineer level or Sr. Principal Software Engineer level based on the qualifications listed below.

Basic Qualifications – Principal Software Engineer:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related STEM degree with 5+ years software development experience, OR Master’s Degree with 3+ years of software development experience, OR Ph.D. with 1+ years of software development experience

• Strong experience with Object-Oriented software design and C++ programming

• Experience executing in a RTOS environment (i.e., FreeRTOS, VxWorks, RT-Linux, GH Integrity)

• Prior experience working in a fast-paced lab environment with rapid development

• Candidate must have an active, within scope, or current U.S. Government DoD Secret security clearance at time of application with the ability and willingness to obtain and maintain Top Secret or SCI access

Basic Qualifications – Sr. Principal Software Engineer:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related STEM degree with 8+ years software development experience, OR Master’s Degree with 6+ years of software development experience, OR Ph.D. with 4+ years of software development experience

• Strong experience with Object-Oriented software design and C++ programming

• Experience executing in a RTOS environment (i.e., FreeRTOS, VxWorks, RT-Linux, GH Integrity)

• Prior experience working in a fast-paced lab environment with rapid development

• Candidate must have an active, within scope, or current U.S. Government DoD Secret security clearance at time of application with the ability and willingness to obtain and maintain Top Secret or SCI access

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience across the various life cycle phases including software systems architecture development, requirements definition and analysis, OO development, code and unit test, system integration and test

• Experience with lab instruments such as noise and signal generators; logic, spectrum, and network analyzers; and power sources and switches

• Experience with hardware validation and verification of RF, digital or mixed signal devices

Salary Range: $107,300 - $160,900

Salary Range 2: $133,000 - $199,600

The 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.

Employees may be eligible for 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 committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action 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/AA and Pay Transparency statement, please visit. U.S. Citizenship is required for all positions with a government clearance and certain other restricted positions.