Description

Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems is looking to an Embedded Software Engineer to join our team on site in Rancho Bernardo, CA. The candidate should be a self-starter with familiarity working in an Integrated Product Team construct.

Roles and Responsibilities will include:

• Work in a fast-paced environment with high expectations, significantly diverse assignments, and collaborative team settings across all levels

• Participate in the full Software (SW) development life cycle including requirements, design, implementation, qualification, and delivery of SW products to our customers

• Operate in an embedded technology development environment working with real-time operating systems for use in flight and mission critical systems

• Work in Agile Scrum teams to develop SW products for multiple SW baselines

• design, develop, integrate and test SW for our end-user customers and businesses.

• Design, architect, develop, and administer embedded and real time systems.

• Work with multi-disciplinary teams, such as Systems Engineering, Cloud & Application, Test Automation, DevSecOps and Systems Test, in an Agile SW development environment.

• Analyze system capabilities to resolve problems on program intent, output requirements, input data acquisition, programming techniques and controls.

The selected candidate will be required to work full-time, on-site at our facility. There is no remote / hybrid / telework available for this position. Travel up to 25% may be required.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) discipline and 2 years of related engineering experience; OR a Master’s degree in a STEM discipline and entry level engineering experience.

• Experience with the following programming and scripting languages: C, C++, and/or Python

• Able to identify/debug performance or timing issues on the target.

• Experience with Agile SW development, embedded system programming, SW integration and testing

• Excellent communication, interpersonal skills, and the ability to interface with all levels of employees and management

• Active U.S. Government Top Secret clearance (with a background investigation within the past 5 years or enrolled into Continuous Evaluation).

• Ability to obtain and maintain initial Special Access Program (SAP) access via a Program Access Request (PAR). This SAP/PAR must be obtained prior to commencement of employment and must be obtained within a reasonable amount of time as determined by the company to meet its business needs.

• Note: SAP/PAR will be upgraded once selected candidate is in role. Therefore, candidate must also be able to obtain and maintain upgraded SAP/PAR.)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Current applicable Special Access Program (SAP) clearance.

• Active DoD Top Secret SCI clearance (with a background investigation within the past 5 years or enrolled into Continuous Evaluation).

• Recent experience and proficiency in software architecture, design, implementation, integration, and debugging C++ SW

• Experience with developing multi-threaded SW used for one of the following real-time applications: flight critical SW, Safety critical SW, medical SW, or mission critical SW

• Familiarity with at least two of the data interfaces: 1553, 422, 429, Serial, Discrete, Ethernet/IP, or Fiber Channel

• Recent experience and proficiency in software architecture, design, implementation, integration, Docker Containers, RHEL 8.10 or later.

• Can identify moderate execution defects by only reading code

• Understanding of how their embedded SW component will fit into a larger SW system / architecture

• Able to document, capture, and present software architectural components in modeling or diagramming tools

• Strong understanding of the following SW hardware interfaces and where they exist in the architecture