Staff Software Engineer - MOSA SME

Northrop GrummanMelbourne, FL
$152,900 - $229,300Onsite

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 Aerospace Systems Sector has an opening for a Staff Software Engineer with a strong background in Modular Open System Architectures (MOSA) to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals. This position will support a 9/80 schedule and is based in Melbourne, FL and will be primarily based on site within our office spaces to support the program and business needs. The position does not have remote or Hybrid work available. 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.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s Degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) discipline and at least 12 years’ experience, or STEM master’s degree with 10 years’ experience, or a STEM PHD with 8 years’ engineering experience.
  • Active U.S. Government Secret Clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain a Top Secret within a reasonable amount of time, as determined by the business
  • Experience developing and integrating Open Mission System (OMS) ICD and Service Contract development
  • Experience with sensor integration, ground and flight support.
  • 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

Nice To Haves

  • 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
  • Experience collecting and analyzing CPU throughput utilization, data bus bandwidth utilization, and CPU memory utilization statistics

Responsibilities

  • 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.
  • 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.

Benefits

  • Relocation assistance may be available
  • health insurance coverage
  • life and disability insurance
  • savings plan
  • Company paid holidays and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business
  • overtime
  • shift differential
  • discretionary bonus
  • Annual bonuses
  • Long Term Incentives (for VP or Director positions)
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