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Northrop Grumman Defense Systems is seeking Principal Embedded Software Engineer. This position will be located in Roy, Utah and will support the Sentinel program.

What You’ll Get To Do:

Designs, develops, documents, tests and debugs hard real-time embedded software containing logical and mathematical solutions. Conducts multidisciplinary research and collaborates with equipment designers and/or hardware engineers in the planning, design, development, and utilization of embedded systems for safety and mission critical software. Must be able to work and collaborate with a team of software engineers in an Agile environment to meet critical milestones.  Ensures program mandated software standards and compliance criteria are met. Understands and can develop in a continuous integration tool chain environment meeting technical and compliance requirements.

Position Benefits:

As a full-time employee of Northrop Grumman, you are eligible for our robust benefits package including:  

• Medical, Dental & Vision coverage  
• 401k  
• Educational Assistance  
• Life Insurance  
• Employee Assistance Programs & Work/Life Solutions   
• Paid Time Off   
• Health & Wellness Resources   
• Employee Discounts  

This position’s standard work schedule is a 9/80. The 9/80 schedule allows employees who work a nine-hour day Monday through Thursday to take every other Friday off.  This role may offer a competitive relocation assistance package.

Job Qualifications: 

You’ll Bring These Qualifications:

• 5 Years with Bachelors in a STEM discipline; 3 Years with Masters; 0 years with PhD.
• Active DoD Secret clearance with a re-investigation date occurring in the last 6 years.
• US Citizenship and ability to obtain Special Program Access (SAP).
• 2+ year experience in developing software/writing code in C/C++/C#, Python, Java, or similar programming language.
• 2+ year experience in object-oriented programming and design patterns, hardware/software communication interfaces, real-time and post processing data analytics.
• 2+ years of full life cycle of software development and Agile software development.
• Experience with the Atlassian Tool Suite.
• Experience with Model Based Systems Engineering using Cameo.
• Knowledge of developing software for a hard real-time system.

These Qualifications Would be Nice to Have:

• Master’s degree in science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) discipline from an accredited university in software/computer engineering.
• Experience with Real Time Component Framework (RTCF).
• Experience developing missile flight systems software.
• Experience developing software for a hard real time system or hardware devices.
• Experience architecting/designing and/or developing software applications for flight system.
• Able to assimilate information from multiple sources, create coherent plans and then execute those plans.

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