Northrop Grumman

Senior Principal Engineer Software (DevOps)

Northrop Grumman$98K — $147K *
Aerospace & Defense
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in STEM or related field and 8 years of experience, or Master's Degree with 6 years, or PhD with 4 years
  • Ability to obtain and maintain a DoD Top Secret clearance
  • Experience with software architecture ensuring adaptability and modularity
  • Proficiency in Agile methodologies and real-time, multi-threaded software development
  • Skilled in C/C++ and/or Java programming
  • Experience in hardware/software systems integration
  • Familiarity with the full software/hardware/network development life cycle.

Responsibilities

  • Collect mission requirements and articulate software product features
  • Develop software architecture and technical designs for DoD missions
  • Shape long-term technical strategy for program evolution
  • Lead mission decomposition into functions and requirements
  • Collaborate with business development and stakeholders to define product strategy
  • Oversee software development timelines and feature roadmaps
  • Interact with external customers and subject matter experts for project success.

Benefits

  • Relocation assistance may be available
  • Health insurance coverage
  • Life and disability insurance
  • Savings plan options
  • Company-paid holidays and paid time off (PTO)
  • Opportunity for annual bonuses and individual contributions recognition.
Full Job Description
RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: Yes

CLEARANCE TYPE: Top Secret

TRAVEL: Yes, 10% of the TimeDescription

Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems Sector has an opening for a Senior Principal Software Engineer to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals. This position is in Melbourne, FL and will be primarily based on site within our office spaces to support the program and business needs. This position will be supporting capture and strategy for a key and critical program. This candidate will closely work with business development, business directors, external customers, and external subject matter experts to shape the feasibility of new missions and architectures. Operating on our 9/80 schedule means you will get every other Friday off. The position does not have remote or Hybrid work available.

Essential Functions:

We are seeking a talented and highly motivated software engineer with experience in communicating with customers, stakeholders, software developers, system engineers, and senior leadership to collect mission requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, develop feature roadmaps, and product strategy. Job includes shaping the long-term technical strategy to evolve and deliver software architecture to enable various DoD missions. Lead mission decomposition into functions, requirements, interface definitions that can be implemented by software developers.

Basic Qualifications:
  • Senior Principal Software Architect (T04): Bachelor's Degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) discipline and at least 8 years' experience, or STEM master's degree with 6 years' experience, or a STEM PHD with 4 years' engineering experience.
  • This position requires the ability to obtain and maintain a DoD Top Secret clearance as well as Program Special Access within a reasonable amount of time as determined by the company to meet its business needs
  • Contingency: This position is contingent upon ability to obtain a DoD Top Secret Clearance, can start with interim Top Secret
  • Experience designing and implementing on-board mission system software ensuring portability, modularity, adaptability, and scalability.
  • Experience with Agile best practices and processes; tasking, accountability, interception, process enforcement
  • Experience developing software in real-time, multi-threaded architecture
  • Experience developing in C/C++ and or Java.
  • Experience developing and debugging hardware/software systems
  • Knowledge of engineering practices and patterns for the full software/hardware/network development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and V&V


Preferred Qualifications:
  • Experience integrating hardware/software from suppliers into avionic platforms.
  • Comms and RF Systems Experience
  • Experienced in Model Based System Engineer including use of Cameo Modeling
  • Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, scaling) operational user experiences


Primary 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.

About Northrop Grumman

Northrop Grumman is a security company that provides systems, products, and solutions in aerospace, electronics, information systems, shipbuilding, and technical services to government and commercial customers. They design, develop, and build everything from aircraft and spacecraft to cyber security systems. The company is involved in a wide range of defense and technology projects, including the development of aircraft, space systems, cybersecurity solutions, and advanced electronics.

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Learn more about Northrop Grumman
Size
88,000 employees
Market Cap
$82.7 billion
Industry
Net Income
$3.1 billion
Founded
1939
5 Year Trend
+7.6%
Revenue
$36.7 billion
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