Consulting Embedded Software Engineer
Northrop Grumman2 days ago
Baltimore, MD, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$203k - $304k/yr
Responsibilities
- Analyze, develop, modify, test, integrate, debug, and maintain radar software.
- Develop highly resource-efficient real-time and near-real-time embedded software controlling existing and new generations of RF subsystems.
- Analyze production test data and performance data from fielded systems.
- Identify risks, propose mitigations, track defects, develop resolutions, and report status.
- Test and verify software with multidisciplinary engineering teams in test environments and production hardware within System Integration Laboratories.
- Participate in technical peer, design, architecture, and system reviews with systems engineering.
- Create and deliver presentations to internal and customer stakeholders.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in a STEM field with 16 years of related experience, master’s degree with 14 years, or Ph.D. with 12 years.
- U.S. citizenship is required.
- Must obtain and maintain a Secret clearance; active Secret clearance is required to start.
- Experience writing highly resource-efficient code in C/C++.
- Experience developing real-time and near-real-time embedded software across the full software lifecycle.
- Experience working with Intel processors, VxWorks, Linux, MATLAB, and radar system development.
- Preferred experience includes radar control and signal processing, radar performance and production data analysis, troubleshooting radar system performance, corrective action development, software review, test and analysis infrastructure consultation, and serving as a radar software technical authority.
Benefits
- Health insurance, life and disability insurance, savings plan, company-paid holidays, and paid time off.
- Eligible employees may receive overtime, shift differential, and discretionary bonuses in addition to base salary.
- The position is located in Baltimore, Maryland, requires approximately 10% travel, and provides no relocation assistance.
- Active Secret clearance is required to start; U.S. citizenship is required.
About Northrop Grumman
Northrop Grumman designs and manufactures aircraft, spacecraft, missile defense, C4ISR, and cyber systems for the U.S. government, NASA, and allied nations. The company operates primarily through long-term defense and space contracts, delivering products and services spanning autonomous systems, sensors, software, and sustainment. Founded in 1994 and headquartered in Falls Church, Virginia, it is a public company listed on the NYSE (ticker: NOC).