RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: Yes CLEARANCE TYPE: Secret TRAVEL: Yes, 10% of the Time Description Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems Sector has an opening for an Engineer Software or Principal Engineer Software to join Global Surveillance Division supporting the team of qualified, diverse individuals. This position will be located in Melbourne, Florida. Responsibilities will include designing, testing, maintaining, troubleshooting, and improving the systems and software. 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. Essential Functions: • Full lifecycle design, implementation, and unit testing of software • Work with various team members to integrate functionality with other software components. • Supporting the gathering and reporting software metrics. • Follow program software best practices. • Develop software products within all phases of the software lifecycle. This role can be filled at either a T02 or T03 level. Basic Qualifications: • (Engineer Software T02) bachelor’s degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) discipline and 2 or more years of experience in software engineering OR a Master’s degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) discipline and 0 or more years of experience in software engineering • (Principal Engineer Software T03) bachelor’s degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) discipline and 5 or more years of experience in software engineering OR a Master’s degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) discipline and 3 or more years of experience in software engineering OR a PhD degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) discipline and 1 or more years of experience in software engineering. • Development experience with C/C++ languages. • Experience developing software in a Linux or Windows environment. • Excellent oral and written communication skills and Strong interpersonal skills. • US citizen with ability to transfer and maintain a DoD Secret level security clearance. Clearance is required to start. • Ability to obtain and maintain special program access. • Willingness to work off-peak for short term surge support to meet program milestones Preferred Qualifications: • Familiarity with the Atlassian tool suite with add-ons like Git and Confluence. • Experience with C/C++ desktop application development • Experience with multithreaded desktop application development • Familiarity with the Agile software development process. • Full software development life cycle experience. • Experience with DOORS and/or Cameo UML Modeling experience or similar tools. • Experience with formal software test and Weapon System evaluations. • US citizen with a current in scope DoD secret or higher clearance. • Currently the holder of a special program access. Primary Level Salary Range: $79,300.00 - $118,900.00 Secondary Level Salary Range: $98,400.00 - $147,600.00 The above salary range represents a general guideline; however, Northrop Grumman considers a number of factors when determining base salary offers such as the scope and responsibilities of the position and the candidate's experience, education, skills and current market conditions. Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay. Annual bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions as well as allow employees to share in company results. Employees in Vice President or Director positions may be eligible for Long Term Incentives. In addition, Northrop Grumman provides a variety of benefits including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, savings plan, Company paid holidays and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business. The application period for the job is estimated to be 20 days from the job posting date. However, this timeline may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates.