Principal Engineer Software/Senior Principal Engineer Software - Melbourne Florida

Company: Northrop Grumman
Location: Melbourne, Florida
Posted On: 10/20/2024

Category: Engineering
Shift: 1st Shift (United States of America)
Travel Required: Yes, 10% of the Time
Relocation Assistance: Relocation assistance may be available
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 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. Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems Sector has an opening for a Principal Engineer Software / Senior Principal Engineer Software to join the Global Surveillance Division supporting a team of qualified, diverse individuals. Responsibilities will include deploying, automating, maintaining, troubleshooting, and improving the systems and software infrastructure running smoothly. The role requires you to have hands on technical experience and a can-do approach towards environment automation and management along with continuous improvements. You will be a team member working in agile development process. You will be responsible for the design and implementation of application builds, releases, deployment along with configuration activities. Your responsibilities will include working with internal business partners to gather requirements, prototyping, and architecting complex solutions supporting the building and test plan execution, performing quality reviews, and triaging and fixing operational issues. The candidate will assist with the integration, troubleshooting and testing of implemented software changes. It is critical that you understand the software development life cycle and have an in-depth knowledge of automated testing to facilitate and analyze large data sets. The Software Engineer will develop, modify, and maintain customized or standardized applications using software engineering best practices and standards, and participate in the full life cycle of software development, to include requirements development, modeling and design, application development, unit to CSCI testing, integration, formal system testing, release, installation, and maintenance.--
The ideal candidate will have the ability to take ownership of hard problems and drive to a solution, while working in a team environment and provide leadership for its implementation. It is critical that you understand the software development life cycle and have an in-depth knowledge of automated testing to facilitate and analyze large data sets. The Software Engineer will participate in the full life cycle of software development, to include requirements development, modeling and design, application development, unit to CSCI testing, integration, formal system testing, release, installation, and maintenance. The Software Engineer will apply technical expertise in solving complex integrations problems. The Software Engineer will interact with Program Management, external suppliers and/or government customers. A solid experience in bash scripting, C/C++, or other OOP languages, in a Linux environment is required. Ability to obtain and maintain a DoD secret security clearance and Special Program Access is a required.
Your responsibilities will include working with internal business partners to gather requirements, prototyping, and architecting complex solutions supporting the building and test plan execution, performing quality reviews, and triaging and fixing operational issues. You will have the opportunity to become the subject matter expert for various subsystems of the aircraft and contribute to the overall design of the software.
The ideal candidate will have the ability to take ownership of hard problems and drive to a solution, while working in a team environment and provide leadership for its implementation. It is critical that you understand the software development life cycle and have an in-depth knowledge of automated testing to facilitate and analyze large data sets. The Software Engineer will participate in the full life cycle of software development, to include requirements development, modeling and design, application development, unit to CSCI testing, integration, formal system testing, release, installation, and maintenance. The Software Engineer will apply technical expertise in solving complex integrations problems. The Software Engineer will interact with Program Management, external suppliers and/or government customers. A Solid experience in Java, C/C++, or other OOP languages, in Windows and/or Linux environment is required.
Full lifecycle design, implementation, and unit testing of software
--- Work with various team members to integrate functionality with other software components
--- Gather and report software metrics
--- Support software working groups with the customer
--- Ensure software best practices
--- Develop software products from all phases of the software lifecycle
Principal) Bachelor's degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) discipline from an accredited university with 5 or more years software development experience, or--Master's degree and 3 or more year's experience developing software or a PhD with 0 or more years software development experience.
-(Principal) Bachelor's degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) discipline from an accredited university with 9 or more years software development experience, or Master's degree and 7 or more year's experience developing software or a PhD with 4 or more years software development experience.
- Demonstrated experience with bash scripting, Linux System Administration and OS configuration
- Demonstrated experience with multi-level security, and cybersecurity hardening
- Demonstrated experience with documenting software requirements and test cases related to multi-level security and cybersecurity hardening
- Demonstrated experience with C/C++ or other OOP languages
- Experience with formal software test and Weapon System evaluations
- Understanding of software and system modeling with UML or SYSML
- In-depth working knowledge working with computer networking technologies and OSI model
- In-depth working knowledge of Security Enhanced Linux (SELinux) architecture and implementations
- In-depth working knowledge in configuration management using industry standard tools and processes
- The ability to obtain and maintain a DoD Secret level security clearance.
- Master's degree with 10 or more years' experience developing software
Experience leading cross-functional engineering teams
Familiarity with ship-based airborne radar platforms
Familiarity with the Agile software development process
Working Knowledge of the Risk Management Framework (RMF) process
In Scope Active DoD Top Secret level security clearance
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. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class. More...

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