C++ Software Engineer (AHT)

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE TYPE: Secret

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.

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.

Northrop Grumman Advanced Weapons has an opening for a C++ Software Engineer to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals.

This position will be in Northridge, CA.

The selected candidate for this position is required to be on-site in Northridge, CA.

As an integral part of our multi-discipline engineering team in Advanced Weapons, you will be on the forefront of developing next generation solutions to protect technology for our nation’s warfighters. The ideal candidate will be supporting one of our programs for defining and architecting a secured missile weapon system. This position will require close collaboration with team members of other projects within the organization for security architecture designs as well as external partners and customers.

Roles and responsibilities:

• A successful candidate will have the qualities and essential functional expertise to:

• Generate software documentation.

• Develop, implement, and maintain existing software for both embedded devices/systems as well as desktop test software based on requirements.

• Participate in all aspects of the software development lifecycle activities

• Software requirements verification and validation.

• Use test equipment to troubleshoot software and hardware

• Relocation assistance, while not guaranteed, may be available.

Basic qualifications for a C++ Software Engineer level (T02):

• Bachelor’s Degree in a STEM related field with 2 years Computer Engineering or Software Engineering experience, or Master’s with 0 years Computer Engineering or Software Engineering.

• Professional experience developing software applications in C++, C.

• Experience with full software lifecycle: specification, design, implementation, integration, debug, and maintenance

• Knowledge with operation of oscilloscopes, power meters, power supplies, signal generator, and spectrum analyzers.

• Ability to work in a fast pace environment

• Current Secret Security Clearance adjudicated within the past 5 years

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with software version control tools such as Git.

• Experience with Windows Desktop applications in C# and/or Java.

• Experience in embedded systems design with preemptive, multitasking real-time operating systems.

• Experience using Atlassian Tool Suite: JIRA, Confluence, and Bitbucket.

• Ability to troubleshoot hardware/software and identify root cause issues.

• Ability to set up test equipment to support software development.

• Experience working with hardware programmers such as JTAG.

• Understanding of TCP/IP protocols, serial communication, and MIL-STANDARD 1553 protocol.

*Living in Northridge offers a perfect combination of urban living with the beauty of nature. It is a short drive away from downtown Los Angeles, the Hollywood Hil