Staff Software Engineer - Embedded and Real Time
Northrop GrummanBase Salary
$177k - $266k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, architect, develop, integrate, debug, qualify, and deliver embedded and real-time software products.
- Participate in the complete software development life cycle, including requirements, design, implementation, qualification, and delivery.
- Develop multi-threaded software for flight-critical, safety-critical, medical, or mission-critical real-time applications.
- Work with real-time operating systems in embedded technology environments supporting flight and mission-critical systems.
- Collaborate with systems engineers, hardware designers, integration engineers, test engineers, and other multidisciplinary teams.
- Develop software within Agile Scrum teams across multiple software baselines.
- Analyze system capabilities and resolve issues involving program intent, requirements, input data acquisition, programming techniques, and controls.
- Apply software architecture, change control, static and dynamic code analysis, integration, testing, and debugging practices.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in a STEM discipline and 12 years of related engineering experience, or a master’s degree and 10 years, or a PhD and 8 years.
- Experience with the full software development life cycle and embedded system programming, integration, and testing.
- Experience with C, C++, and Python.
- Experience developing multi-threaded software for a flight-critical, safety-critical, medical, or mission-critical real-time application.
- Experience with at least two of Jira, Crucible, Bitbucket, Subversion, Bamboo, Jenkins, SonarQube, Fortify, and Coverity.
- Familiarity with at least two data interfaces, including 1553, 1394, 422, 429, Serial, CAN, Discrete and Analog I/O, Ethernet/IP, and Fibre Channel.
- Recent proficiency designing, implementing, integrating, and debugging C++ software on VxWorks, Integrity, or Real-Time Embedded Linux.
- Active in-scope U.S. Government Top Secret clearance and ability to obtain and maintain initial and upgraded Special Program Access (SAP/PAR).
- Preferred qualifications include current SAP access, PowerPC or ARM assembly knowledge, CPU documentation experience, code-based defect identification, software architecture documentation, OS partition and isolation architecture familiarity, airworthiness certification knowledge, and experience with static and dynamic code analysis.
- Preferred experience includes recent use of software change control, change management, static analysis, and CI/CD tools such as the Atlassian tool suite, Jira, GitHub, GitLab, SonarQube, Coverity, or Jenkins.
Benefits
- On-site work in San Diego or Palmdale, California, with approximately 10% travel and possible relocation assistance.
- Health insurance, life and disability insurance, savings plan, company-paid holidays, and paid time off.
- Potential eligibility for overtime, shift differential, and discretionary bonuses in addition to base salary.
About Northrop Grumman
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 at jobs.northropgrumman.com/careers. 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. Our careers site can be found at jobs.northropgrumman.com/careers. If you are contacted about a job at Northrop Grumman, please verify the email came from the domain @ngc.com before engaging with that contact. If you are contacted by a Northrop Grumman recruiter on LinkedIn, please that their profile includes the verified check mark to ensure the contact is legitimate.