Principal or Senior Principal Embedded Software Engineer

Northrop Grumman•Annapolis, MD

15d•$108,800 - $203,600•Onsite

About The Position

Northrop Grumman Mission Systems is looking for a Principal or Senior Principal Embedded Software Engineer with the desire to learn new technologies and develop software for cutting edge Undersea Payloads. The embedded software engineer will design, develop, integrate, and test software that manages an embedded, undersea payload unit ensuring compliance to established requirements. Selected individuals will work on an agile development team, primarily using C++, Linux and/or Python. This role will support the MSTS Business Unit in Annapolis, 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.

Requirements

Bachelor of Science (B.S) degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or an equivalent STEM related discipline.
For Principal: 5+ years software development experience working on embedded real-time systems or 3+ years with a master’s degree, 0 years with a PhD.
For Senior Principal: 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 PhD.
Experience in developing in C++ and Python.
Experience in embedded software development.
Experience developing in a Linux and/or Windows environment.
Demonstrated experience as a technical lead.
Microelectronics programming experience.
US Citizen with ability to obtain and maintain TS/SCI with poly.

Nice To Haves

Experience with the Atlassian tool suite (Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket)
Experience in embedded C++ optimizations
Experience in JavaScript
Experience in Web GUI development, Qt, CUDA/ArrayFire coding, and Docker/k8s
Hands on hardware integration and testing experience
Ability to debug complex integrated applications or test setup issues
Active TS/SCI

Responsibilities

Design, develop, integrate, and test software that manages an embedded, undersea payload unit ensuring compliance to established requirements.
Work on an agile development team, primarily using C++, Linux and/or Python.
Work through all phases of the software development cycle including design, development, integration, and test.
Conduct reviews of software-related products, software designs, and additional technical documents.
Active participation in cross-functional scrum teams, design reviews, and other reviews, as required.
Actively participate in technical, peer-reviews to ensure system/software requirements are being met from an end-to-end system point of view.
Prioritize and make recommendations to Technical Leads, as required, to implement tasking assigned.