Staff Software Engineer - Embedded and Real Time
Northrop Grumman2 days ago
El Segundo, CA, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$177k - $266k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, architect, develop, integrate, debug, qualify, and deliver embedded and real-time software products.
- Participate in the full software development life cycle, including requirements, design, implementation, qualification, and delivery.
- Develop multithreaded 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 and test engineers, cloud and application teams, test automation teams, DevSecOps teams, and systems test teams.
- Develop software in Agile Scrum teams across multiple software baselines.
- Analyze system capabilities and resolve issues involving program intent, requirements, input data acquisition, programming techniques, and controls.
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 Agile software development.
- Experience with C, C++, and Python.
- Experience developing multithreaded software for a real-time flight-critical, safety-critical, medical, or mission-critical application.
- Experience with at least two of Jira, Crucible, Bitbucket, Subversion, Bamboo, Jenkins, SonarQube, Fortify, or Coverity.
- Experience with embedded system programming, software integration, and testing.
- Familiarity with at least two data interfaces, including 1553, 1394, 422, 429, Serial, CAN, Discrete and Analog I/O, Ethernet/IP, or Fibre Channel.
- Recent proficiency in software architecture, design, implementation, integration, and debugging of C++ software running on VxWorks, Integrity, or real-time embedded Linux.
- Active in-scope U.S. Government Top Secret clearance.
- Ability to obtain and maintain initial and upgraded Special Program Access (SAP/PAR) before employment begins and within the company’s required timeframe.
- Ability to collaborate across engineering and management levels and maintain complex software systems.
- Preferred qualifications include SAP access; PowerPC or ARM assembly knowledge; ability to read assembly and CPU documentation; understanding of layered, event-driven, polling, synchronous, hardware-interface, partitioning, isolation, and airworthiness architectures; experience with modeling or diagramming tools; and recent experience with change control, static and dynamic code analysis, and CI/CD tools such as Atlassian, Jira, GitHub, GitLab, SonarQube, Coverity, or Jenkins.
Benefits
- On-site position in El Segundo, California.
- Relocation assistance may be available.
- Approximately 10% travel.
- Benefits include health insurance, life and disability insurance, a savings plan, company-paid holidays, and paid time off.
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).