Principal / Sr. Principal Engineer Software Quality

Northrop Grumman•Los Angeles, CA

4d•$103,600 - $193,900•Onsite

About The Position

Northrop Grumman is hiring a Principal Engineer Software Quality or Sr. Principal Engineer Software Quality for its Woodland Hills, California team. The position is fully on-site and requires an active Top Secret clearance and U.S. citizenship. Relocation assistance may be available. The role develops, modifies, applies, and maintains quality evaluation plans supporting program activities for processing software and materials into partially finished or finished products. It works with Program and Engineering management to plan program quality and establish objectives, and collaborates with software and systems engineering through the Engineering Process Group to ensure quality standards are established and followed. The position also supports software and system verification and validation, audits and corrective actions, quality documentation compliance, and the collection and reporting of software metrics. Familiarity with quality management systems such as ISO 9001 or AS9100 is expected. The position may be filled at either the Principal or Sr. Principal level. The listed primary salary range is $103,600–$155,400, and the secondary salary range is $129,300–$193,900. Eligible employees may receive overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus. Benefits include health insurance, life and disability insurance, a savings plan, company-paid holidays, and paid time off for vacation and/or personal business.

Requirements

For the Principal level: Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or another STEM-related field and at least 5 years of relevant software development integration work experience, or a Master’s degree in Engineering or another STEM-related field and at least 3 years of relevant software development and integration work experience.
For the Sr. Principal level: Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or another STEM-related field and at least 8 years of relevant software development integration work experience, or a Master’s degree in Engineering or another STEM-related field and at least 6 years of relevant software development and integration work experience.
Experience with development processes including Agile, Waterfall, and/or Spiral Development.
Experience collecting software data and metrics for reporting.
Active Top Secret clearance.
U.S. citizenship.
Experience with scripting languages such as Bash or Python.
Experience with the Linux operating system.
Experience with Git.
Experience with MS Office, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
Familiarity with a quality management system such as ISO 9001 or AS9100.

Nice To Haves

Experience in a Software Engineering environment in an engineering capacity, including work plan review and root cause/corrective action analysis.
Experience with software code review and openness to learning different software tools.
Software Development and/or Software Engineering background with an Agile/DevSecOps mindset.
Experience with GitLab.
Experience with Windows 11.
Experience with AS9100 or ISO 9001.

Responsibilities

Develop, modify, apply, and maintain quality evaluation plans for program activities involving software and materials.
Collaborate with Program and Engineering management on program quality planning and the establishment of quality objectives.
Work with the Engineering Process Group and software and systems engineering functions to ensure quality standards are established and followed.
Assist with verification and validation testing of software and system products.
Support audit activities and audit quality systems to identify non-conformance and corrective actions.
Ensure corrective measures meet acceptable quality standards and documentation complies with requirements.
Assist Software Engineering with collecting and reporting metrics.