Principal / Sr. Principal Embedded Software Engineer
- Location:
- Linthicum, Maryland, United States of America
About Northrop Grumman
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Northrop Grumman's Space Systems is looking for a Principal / Sr. Principal Embedded Software Engineer with the desire to learn new technologies and develop software for cutting edge Space Payloads. The software engineer will design, develop, integrate, and test software that manages a Space payload unit ensuring compliance to established requirements. Selected individuals will work on an agile development team, primarily using C++ and/or Python. This role will support Remote Sensing Programs (RSP) Business Unit in Linthicum, MD.
The individual will work through all phases of the software development cycle including design, development, integration, and test. The selected individual will conduct reviews of software-related products, software designs, and additional technical documents.
The responsibilities include active participation in cross-functional scrum teams, design reviews, and other reviews, as required. The selected individual will actively participate in technical, peer-reviews to ensure system/software requirements are being met from an end-to-end system point of view. Individuals must be self-starters and able to efficiently operate in a team environment. Existing engineering and system specialists will be made available to assist with any activities associated with executing primary tasking. However, the selected individuals will be expected to prioritize and make recommendations to Technical Leads, as required, to implement tasking assigned.
While not all positions will require an active clearance to start, all positions are contingent on the candidate’s ability to obtain and maintain a Top Secret/SCI clearance.
Principal Embedded Software Engineer Basic Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree in or Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or another STEM discipline with 5+ years software development experience working on embedded real-time systems or 3+ years with a master’s degree or 0 years with Ph.D.
Experience in developing in C++ and/or Python
Experience in embedded software development
Experience developing in a Linux and/or Windows environment
U.S. Citizenship required
Must have a Top-Secret clearance to be considered with the ability to obtain and maintain a SCI
Sr. Principal Embedded Software Engineer Basic Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or another STEM discipline with 8+ years of software development experience working on embedded real-time systems or 6+ years with a master’s degree or 3+ years with a Ph.D.
Experience in developing in C++ and/or Python
Experience in embedded software development
Experience developing in a Linux and/or Windows environment
U.S. Citizenship required
Must have an active Top-Secret clearance to be considered with the ability to obtain and maintain a SCI
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience as a member of an Agile Scrum team
Experience with the Atlassian tool suite (Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket)
Experience in embedded C++ optimizations
Hands on hardware integration and testing experience
Ability to debug complex integrated applications or test setup issues
Active TS/SCI Clearance