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Sr Principal Engineer Software - Embedded and Real Time

Northrop Grumman · San Diego, CA · 6 days ago
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About the role

This position will be supported on site in San Diego, CA, El Segundo, CA or Palmdale, CA. In this role you will design, develop, integrate and test software (SW) for our end-user customers and businesses. You will be responsible for the design, architecture, development, and administration of embedded and real time systems. You will work with multi-disciplinary teams, such as Systems Engineering, Cloud & Application, Test Automation, DevSecOps and Systems Test, in an Agile SW development environment.

Responsibilities

  • Work in a fast-paced environment with high expectations, significantly diverse assignments, and collaborative team settings across all levels
  • Participate in the full 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
  • Analyze system capabilities to resolve problems on program intent, output requirements, input data acquisition, programming techniques and controls

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s Degree in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) discipline and 8 years of related engineering experience; OR a Master’s degree in a STEM discipline and 6 years of related engineering experience; OR a PhD in a STEM discipline and 4 years of related engineering experience.
  • Experience with the full SW Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
  • Experience with the following programming and scripting languages: C, C++, and Python
  • 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
  • Experience with two of the following tools: Jira, Crucible, Bitbucket, Subversion, Bamboo, Jenkins, Sonarqube, Fortify, or Coverity
  • Experience with Agile SW development, embedded system programming, SWintegration and testing
  • Familiarity with at least two of the data interfaces: 1553, 1394, 422, 429, Serial, CAN, Discrete & Analog I/O, Ethernet/IP, or Fibre Channel
  • Excellent communication, interpersonal skills, and the ability to interface with all levels of employees and management

Qualifications

  • Recent experience and proficiency in software architecture, design, implementation, integration, and debugging C++ SW running on Real-Time Operating systems such as: VxWorks, Integrity, AND/OR Real Time Embedded Linux.
  • Able to collaborate with systems engineers, hardware designers and integration/test engineers to develop and maintain complex SW systems
  • Your ability to transfer and maintain the final adjudicated U.S. government Top Secret clearance (must be in-scope or enrolled in Continuous Evaluation)
  • Ability to obtain and maintain initial Special Program Access (SAP/PAR)

Skills

  • Current applicable SAP access
  • Basic understanding of PowerPC or ARM assembly
  • 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
  • Familiarity with OS partitions and isolation architectures
  • Strong understanding of the following: layered SW architectures (e.g. Application, System, Device), SW hardware interfaces and where they exist in the architecture, Event driven (Interrupts), polling and synchronous SW architectures
  • Recent experience and proficiency with SW change control, change management, static analysis, and CI/CD tools such as: Atlassian tool suite, Jira, GitHub, GitLab, SonarQube, Coverity, AND/OR Jenkins within the last three years.

Benefits

Northrop Grumman is an Equal Opportunity 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. For our complete EEO and pay transparency statement, please visit http://www.northropgrumman.com/EEO.

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