Modeling & Simulation Engineer - Level 3 or 4
About The Position
At Northrop Grumman, our employees have incredible opportunities to work on revolutionary systems that impact people's lives around the world today, and for generations to come. Our pioneering and inventive spirit has enabled us to be at the forefront of many technological advancements in our nation's history - from the first flight across the Atlantic Ocean, to stealth bombers, to landing on the moon. We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage and a pioneering spirit to join forces to invent the future, and have fun along the way. Our culture thrives on intellectual curiosity, cognitive diversity and bringing your whole self to work — and we have an insatiable drive to do what others think is impossible. Our employees are not only part of history, they're making history. Northrop Grumman Space Systems, Multi-Domain Operations, and Missile Defense Integration Business Unit (BU) has an exciting career opportunity for a Modeling and Simulation Engineer – Level 3 or 4 to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals. This position will be in Huntsville, AL. The selected Modeling and Simulation Engineer will support the Ground Weapons System (GWS) program as an individual contributor on the System Performance and Analysis - Test Exerciser team. This role is responsible for providing technical contributions and guidance to modeling and simulation products that directly support the design and development of the GWS capability on behalf of the Missile Defense Agency (MDA). The selected candidate should thrive in a fast-paced work environment with high expectations, significantly diverse assignments, and collaborative/teams comprised of all experience levels.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) discipline preferred from an accredited university and 5 years of related experience, or a Master's Degree and 3 years of related experience, or 1 year of experience with a PhD. (Level 3)
- Bachelor’s Degree in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) discipline preferred from an accredited university and 8 years of related experience, or a Master's Degree and 6 years of related experience, or 4 years of experience with a PhD. (Level 4)
- Proficiency in strongly typed languages such as C, C++, or JAVA
- Experience with other software languages such as ADA or Python
- Experience with the Atlassian tool suite and software version control tools such as Git and Bitbucket
- Experience developing software using Object Oriented Design or SOLID principles
- Experience developing modeling and simulation software
- Experience debugging complex software systems
- Familiarity with MBSE requirements derivation
- Must be able to support an in-person / closed-area work environment
- Applicants must have a current active in-scope US Government issued Secret security clearance at the time of application, which is required to start
Nice To Haves
- Experience developing software for iTEx
- Experience working with OSF (Objective Simulation Framework) and GTISS (Ground Test Integrated System Simulation)
- Experience optimizing runtime performance of algorithms or models and simulations (C++ is a bonus)
- Experience profiling multithreaded or distributed systems
- Experience working with the Boost thread library
- Strong understanding of data structures, concurrency, and scalable/efficient software design
Responsibilities
- Providing technical contributions and guidance to modeling and simulation products that directly support the design and development of the GWS capability on behalf of the Missile Defense Agency (MDA).
Benefits
- Relocation assistance may be available
- health insurance coverage
- life and disability insurance
- savings plan
- Company paid holidays
- paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business
- overtime
- shift differential
- discretionary bonus
- 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.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
