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Engineer Software

Northrop Grumman
MDLI32, United States, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 24 Sept 2025
💰 $128,000/yr($85,400/yr$128,000/yr)

About the role

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE TYPE: SCI

TRAVEL: Yes, 10% of the Time

Description

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 pioneering and inventive spirit has enabled us to be at the forefront of many technological advancements in our nation's history - from the first flight across the Atlantic Ocean, to stealth bombers, to landing on the moon. We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage and a pioneering spirit to join forces to invent the future, and have fun along the way. 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. Our employees are not only part of history, they're making history.

Today’s dynamic global security threats require solutions both big and small – solutions living within the Northrop Grumman Microelectronics Center (NGMC). Boasting state-of-the-art design capabilities, multiple processing nodes, electrical testing, environmental and QCI screening, and failure analysis, the NGMC is a leader in designing, fabricating, packaging, and delivering discriminating microelectronics to the military, aerospace, and commercial markets.  For more than 70 years, we have been offering a wide range of trusted foundry and semiconductor services that deliver high performing and reliable microelectronics. Our wide breadth of technologies and capabilities allows us to provide our customers with unique “More than Moore” solutions. Microelectronics | Northrop Grumman

One of our most challenging new fields is Microelectronics Design and Applications (MDA), which combines the unique properties of superconductivity and quantum mechanics to develop radical new energy-efficient computing systems.

MDA is seeking a Software Engineer with demonstrated ability to develop industry best practice software standards to support novel simulations for our emerging supercomputing technologies.

This position requires 100% work on site at our Linthicum, MD location and/or our Annapolis Junction, MD location.

What You'll Get to Do:

As a Software Engineer, you will have an opportunity to be a part of a technology development organization that is collaborative, open, transparent, team-oriented, and flexible, where continuous learning is encouraged, all within a culture of design.

The selected individual requires strong software development skills and will be responsible for supporting teams in all phases of the software development lifecycle including design, development, and test. Candidates should have a solid foundation with best practices in software design, continuous integration / continuous delivery (CI/CD) tools and processes, and object-oriented programming. Candidates should be familiar with the Agile methodology of software development.

Your responsibilities:

Support simulation team’s software development lifecycle:

  • Work in an engineering role that executes all facets of building complex software in an Agile development environment

  • Perform engineering activities, focusing on software, across the full spectrum from conceptual design to deployment

  • Define, implement, and verify software capabilities and tools supporting novel technologies and applications

  • Collaborate with multi-disciplined teams to define technical architectures for software-intensive systems

  • Drive and collaborate on the development of technical requirements and synthesize software architectures

  • Conduct design and code reviews

  • Define standards for unit testing, regression testing, integration testing, and stakeholder acceptance

  • Aid in developing documentation and briefing material

T2-Basic Qualifications for Software Engineer:

  • Bachelor's degree in a STEM discipline with 2+ years of relative experience; master’s degree in a STEM discipline with 0+ years of relative experience

  • Experience with the Agile software development lifecycle

  • Experience defining and implementing software standards

  • Experience developing and communicating software requirements

  • Experience developing best-practice software frameworks with CI/CD pipelines and versioning tools

  • Experience and knowledge of object-oriented programming languages such as Python, C++, M

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