Staff Engineer Embedded Software

About the role

Northrop Grumman is seeking a Staff Embedded Software Engineer to join our innovative Software Technologies Organization. The new team member will work on software systems for mission systems in all phases of the software development lifecycle, primarily in C/C++. This position is located in Baltimore, MD.

Responsibilities

• Analyze, develop, and modify existing software, apply modern development techniques that take advantage of all that current technology has to offer
• Identify risks, suggest mitigation, track defects, develop resolutions, and report status
• Design, construct, and execute unit tests; build verification test plans, track and report test status
• Work alongside multi-disciplined engineering teams to test and verify software products on simulators and actual production hardware in our System Integration Laboratories
• Identify and assess new technologies prior to implementation
• Active participation with systems engineering in technical peer, design, architecture, and system reviews to ensure system/software requirements are being met from an end-to-end system point of view

Requirements

This position is contingent based on obtaining necessary special access security clearance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related STEM Degree and 12 years of related experience
• US Citizenship
• Must have a current/active Secret Clearance
• Must be able to obtain Special Program Access
• Must have 10 years’ experience working in C/C++
• Must have 10 years’ experience with real-time embedded software
• Must have 10 years’ experience with full software lifecycle: specification, design, implementation, integration, debug and maintenance

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in algorithmic application development and optimization
• Experience developing software that interfaces with FPGAs
• Experience working with RF systems
• Experience designing, developing, and integrating embedded software for SWaP constrained systems
• Experience developing Radar tracker modes
• Experience with VxWorks Operating Systems
• Experience with Visual Studio
• Experience with Matlab
• Experience with Coverity, SonarQube and/or KlocWork tools
• Experience in Open Architecture Solutions
• Experience with the Atlassian tool set, Kubernetes, Model Based Engineering, and DevSecOps best practices

Pay

Annual salary range: $169,000.00 - $253,600.00

Schedule

Full-time, 40 hours per week