Sr Principal Software Engineer - Embedded and Real Time
Northrop GrummanBase Salary
$142k - $213k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, architect, develop, integrate, test, qualify, and deliver embedded and real-time software products.
- Participate in the full software development lifecycle across requirements, design, implementation, integration, qualification, and delivery.
- Develop multi-threaded software for flight-critical, safety-critical, medical, or mission-critical real-time applications.
- Develop software for real-time operating systems used in flight and mission-critical systems.
- Analyze system capabilities and resolve issues involving program intent, requirements, input data acquisition, programming techniques, and controls.
- Collaborate with systems engineers, hardware designers, integration and test engineers, test automation teams, DevSecOps teams, and systems test teams.
- Work in Agile Scrum teams across multiple software baselines.
- Apply software architecture, change control, static and dynamic analysis, integration, testing, debugging, and software administration practices.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in a STEM discipline and 8 years of related engineering experience, or a master’s degree and 6 years, or a PhD and 4 years.
- Experience across the full software development lifecycle.
- Experience with C, C++, and Python.
- Experience developing multi-threaded 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 Agile software development, embedded 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 C++ software architecture, design, implementation, integration, and debugging 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 and as required by the company.
- Strong communication, interpersonal, collaboration, software architecture, embedded systems, hardware interface, and systems architecture skills.
- Preferred experience with PowerPC or ARM assembly, CPU documentation, code defect identification, software modeling or diagramming tools, OS partitions, isolation architectures, airworthiness certification requirements, layered and event-driven software architectures, static and dynamic code analysis, and recent software change-control and CI/CD tooling experience.
Benefits
- On-site work in San Diego or Palmdale, California.
- Relocation assistance may be available.
- Health insurance, life and disability insurance, savings plan, company-paid holidays, and paid time off are provided.
- Employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and discretionary bonuses.
- The position requires approximately 10% travel.
- U.S. citizenship is required for positions requiring government clearance.
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.