Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems Sector has an opening for a Principal Engineer Software/Senior Principal Engineer Software to join the Global Surveillance Division supporting a team of qualified, diverse individuals. This position will be located in Melbourne, Florida.

Responsibilities will include deploying, automating, maintaining, troubleshooting, and improving the systems and software infrastructure running smoothly.  The role requires you to have hands on technical experience and a can-do approach towards environment automation and management along with continuous improvements. You will be a team member working in agile development process. You will be responsible for the design and implementation of application builds, releases, deployment along with configuration activities.  Your responsibilities will include working with internal business partners to gather requirements, prototyping, and architecting complex solutions supporting the building and test plan execution, performing quality reviews, and triaging and fixing operational issues.  The candidate will assist with the integration, troubleshooting and testing of implemented software changes. The ideal candidate will have the ability to take ownership of an ambiguous hard problems and drive to a solution, while working in a team environment.  It is critical that you understand the software development life cycle and have an in-depth knowledge of automated testing to facilitate and analyze large data sets. The Software Engineer will develop, modify, and maintain customized or standardized applications using software engineering best practices and standards, and participate in the full life cycle of software development, to include requirements development, modeling and design, application development, unit to CSCI testing, integration, formal system testing, release, installation, and maintenance. 

The ideal candidate will have the ability to take ownership of hard problems and drive to a solution, while working in a team environment and provide leadership for its implementation.  It is critical that you understand the software development life cycle and have an in-depth knowledge of automated testing to facilitate and analyze large data sets. The Software Engineer will participate in the full life cycle of software development, to include requirements development, modeling and design, application development, unit to CSCI testing, integration, formal system testing, release, installation, and maintenance. The Software Engineer will apply technical expertise in solving complex integrations problems.   The Software Engineer will interact with Program Management, external suppliers and/or government customers.  Therefore, excellent verbal, written and interpersonal skills are required.  A solid experience in bash scripting, C/C++, or other OOP languages, in a Linux environment is required.  Ability to obtain and maintain a DoD secret security clearance and Special Program Access is a required.

Your responsibilities will include working with internal business partners to gather requirements, prototyping, and architecting complex solutions supporting the building and test plan execution, performing quality reviews, and triaging and fixing operational issues.  You will have the opportunity to become the subject matter expert for various subsystems of the aircraft and contribute to the overall design of the software.

The ideal candidate will have the ability to take ownership of hard problems and drive to a solution, while working in a team environment and provide leadership for its implementation.  It is critical that you understand the software development life cycle and have an in-depth knowledge of automated testing to facilitate and analyze large data sets. The Software Engineer will participate in the full life cycle of software development, to include requirements development, modeling and design, application development, unit to CSCI testing, integration, formal system testing, release, installation, and maintenance. The Software Engineer will apply technical expertise in solving complex integrations problems.   The Software Engineer will interact with Program Management, external suppliers and/or government customers.  Therefore, excellent verbal, written and interpersonal skills are required.  A Solid experience in Java, C/C++, or other OOP languages, in Windows and/or Linux environment is required.

Essential Functions:

•              Full lifecycle design, implementation, and unit testing of software

•              Work with various team members to integrate functionality with other software components

•              Ability to lead a team and /or provide leadership to drive solutions of complex problems

•              Gather and report software metrics

•              Support software working groups with the customer

•              Ensure software best practices

•              Develop software products from all phases of the software lifecycle

Basic Qualifications: 

• (Principal) Bachelor’s degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) discipline from an accredited university with 5 or more years software development experience, or Master’s degree and 3 or more year’s experience developing software or a PhD with 0 or more years software development experience.
• (Sr. Principal) Bachelor’s degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) discipline from an accredited university with 9 or more years software development experience, or Master’s degree and 7 or more year’s experience developing software or a PhD with 4 or more years software development experience.
• Demonstrated experience with bash scripting, Linux System Administration and OS configuration
• Demonstrated experience with multi-level security, and cybersecurity hardening
• Demonstrated experience with documenting software requirements and test cases related to multi-level security and cybersecurity hardening
• Experience with SELinux
• Experience with Git version control
• Demonstrated experience with C/C++ or other OOP languages
• Experience with formal software test and Weapon System evaluations
• Understanding of software and system modeling with UML or SYSML
• In-depth working knowledge in the use of containers (Docker, podman, Kubernetes, etc..)
• In-depth working knowledge working with computer networking technologies and OSI model
• In-depth working knowledge of Security Enhanced Linux (SELinux) architecture and implementations
• In-depth working knowledge in configuration management using industry standard tools and processes
• The ability to obtain and maintain a DoD Secret level security clearance.
• The ability to obtain and maintain a program special program access clearance.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s degree with 10 or more years’ experience developing software
• Experience leading cross-functional engineering teams
• Experience interfacing with customers and/or stakeholders
• Familiarity with ship-based airborne radar platforms
• Familiarity with the Atlassian tool suite like Jira and Confluence
• Familiarity with the Agile software development process
• Working Knowledge of the Risk Management Framework (RMF) process
• In Scope Active DoD Top Secret level security clearance
• Program Special Program Access clearance