Principal / Sr. Principal Engineer Software Quality

About the role

This position is fully on-site. The ideal candidate must be familiar with QMS (ISO 9001, AS9100, or etc..).

Responsibilities

• Develop, modify, apply, and maintain quality evaluation plans to assist program activities for processing software and materials into partially finished or finished products.
• Collaborate with Program and Engineering management on program quality planning and the establishment of program quality objectives.
• Collaborate with software engineering and systems engineering functions to ensure quality standards are in place and followed.
• Supports audit activities and audits quality systems for non-conformance identification and corrective action.
• Ensures that corrective measures meet acceptable quality standards, and that documentation is compliant with requirements.
• Affords support to Software Engineering in collecting and reporting metrics.

Requirements

• For Principal Engineer Software Quality: Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or other STEM-related field with a minimum of 5 years of relevant software development integration work experience; Master’s Degree in Engineering or other STEM-related field with a minimum of 3 years of relevant software development and integration work experience.
• For Sr. Principal Engineer Software Quality: Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or other STEM-related field with a minimum of 8 years of relevant software development integration work experience; Master’s Degree in Engineering or other STEM-related field with a minimum of 6 years of relevant software development and integration work experience.

Qualifications

• Experience with development processes including Agile, Waterfall, and/or Spiral Development processes.
• Experience in the collection of software data and metrics for reporting.
• Active Top-Secret Clearance.
• US Citizenship Required.
• Experience with Scripting languages (e.g. Bash, Python).
• Experience with Linux Operating System.
• Experience with Git.
• Experience with MS Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint).

Skills

• Familiarity with QMS (ISO 9001, AS9100, or etc..).
• Experience in a Software Engineering environment in an engineering capacity, work plan review, and root cause/corrective action analysis.
• Experience with software code review and open to learning different software tools.
• Software Development and/or Software Engineering background with an Agile/DevSecOps mindset.
• Experience with GitLab.
• Experience with Windows 11 Operating System.
• Experience with AS9100 or ISO 9001.

Benefits

The above salary range represents a general guideline; however, Northrop Grumman considers a number of factors when determining base salary offers such as the scope and responsibilities of the position and the candidate's experience, education, skills and current market conditions. Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay. 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.

Pay

Primary Level Salary Range: $103,600.00 - $155,400.00 Secondary Level Salary Range: $129,300.00 - $193,900.00

Schedule

This position is fully on-site.