Principal Software Engineer
Northrop Grumman2 months ago
San Diego, CA, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$114k - $171k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, integrate, test, and administer embedded and real-time software for end-user customers and business programs.
- Participate in requirements, design, implementation, qualification, and delivery across the full software development lifecycle.
- Develop multi-threaded software for flight-critical, safety-critical, medical, or mission-critical real-time applications.
- Work in Agile Scrum teams across multiple software baselines and collaborate with multidisciplinary engineering and test organizations.
- Analyze system capabilities, requirements, input data acquisition, programming techniques, controls, and software defects.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in a STEM discipline and 5 years of related engineering experience, or a master’s degree and 3 years, or a PhD and 1 year.
- Experience with the full software development lifecycle, embedded system programming, software integration, and testing.
- Experience with C, C++, Python, real-time operating systems, and multi-threaded real-time software.
- Experience with at least one of Jira, GitLab, Fortify, or Coverity.
- Active U.S. Secret clearance issued by the U.S. Government.
- Preferred experience includes at least two listed data interfaces, Google Unit Test or another unit-test framework, MATLAB or Simulink, VxWorks, Integrity, RTX 64, Real Time Embedded Linux, assembly, software architecture, modeling or diagramming tools, OS partitioning, isolation architectures, and airworthiness certification requirements.
Benefits
- 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 annual bonus.
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).