Software Architect - Level 6
Northrop Grumman4 days ago
Redondo Beach, CA, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$193k - $289k/yr
Responsibilities
- Serve as a technical leader and software architect for flight and ground systems supporting space missions.
- Oversee program architecture across flight software and ground software, guiding and mentoring development teams and resolving architectural issues.
- Lead technical solutioning, technology selection, verification planning, and requirements-aligned architecture decisions.
- Define, document, and evolve end-to-end software architectures in collaboration with software, systems engineering, hardware, and integration and test teams.
- Perform technical planning and trade studies covering performance, cost, risk, scalability, and supportability.
- Research and recommend frameworks and tools to mitigate technical risks.
- Produce architecture, design, verification, user, and training documentation and present technical briefings to leadership and customers.
- Collaborate on security architecture designs with internal projects, external partners, and customers.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in a STEM discipline with 14 years of relevant experience, or a master's degree with 12 years, or a PhD with 10 years.
- Active SCI access is required at the time of application.
- Experience leading a software team.
- Full-cycle software development experience from requirements through testing.
- Background in software development, software design, and software architecture for complex systems.
- Experience with ground software and/or flight software development.
- Preferred: experience with Agile software development practices, expert embedded C/C++ proficiency, VxWorks or other real-time operating systems, Jenkins or similar CI/CD pipeline tools, comprehensive software documentation, proposal activities, and system requirements and tradeoff analysis.
Benefits
- Relocation assistance may be available.
- Benefits include health insurance, life and disability insurance, a savings plan, company-paid holidays, and paid time off.
- The position is located in Redondo Beach, California, requires travel 10% of the time, and requires SCI clearance at start; continued employment depends on maintaining required clearance and program access.
- Employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and discretionary bonuses in addition to base salary.
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).