Principal Engineer Software/Sr Principal Engineer Software

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.

Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation is seeking a Principal or Senior Principal Software Engineer to support a research area associated with our key lab environment within the Research & Advanced Design/Battlespace Architecture Systems and Technology “RAD/BAST” organization. The program technologies include 5G/NextG communications, machine learning, cybersecurity, cloud computing, and future wireless technologies in support of tactical applications for the warfighter. The position is in Melbourne, FL.

Responsibilities will include integrating, deploying, maintaining, troubleshooting, and enhancing 5G systems, Azure and AWS cloud architectures, and the associated infrastructure for advanced research and design.  The role requires hands on technical experience and a can-do attitude towards environment automation, management, and continuous improvements. You will be expected to take ownership of hard problems and drive toward to a solution, while working in a multi-discipline team environment.  You will develop, modify, and maintain customized or standardized applications using software engineering best practices and standards, and participate in the full life cycle of software development, to include requirements development, modeling and design, application development, unit to CSCI testing, integration, formal system testing, release, installation, and maintenance. A solid experience in scripting (bash, PowerShell or python); C/C++, Java, or other OOP languages, in a Linux environment is required.

Key roles and responsibilities:

• Integrating, deploying, and enhancing 5G systems based on the O-RAN standard.

• Designing and deploying microservices architectures on Azure, AWS, and hybrid environments.

• Full lifecycle design, implementation, and unit testing of software

• Working with various team members to integrate functionality with other software components.

• Providing technical solutions to a wide range of complex difficult problems that are imaginative, thorough, practicable, and consistent with programs objectives.

• Following software best practices.

• Developing software products from all phases of the software lifecycle.

• Contributing to the full life cycle of system development in collaboration with a multidisciplinary team. This includes requirements development, modeling and design, application development, integration, formal system testing, release, installation, and maintenance.

• Meeting milestones and deadlines by providing best in class solutions.

• Adhering to and following roadmaps, plans, and schedules.

• Working closely with the software lead and following their guidance.

• Ability to work independently and identify solutions to complex problems.

Basic Qualifications:

• Principal Software Engineer: Bachelor’s degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) discipline from an accredited university with 5 or more years software development experience, or Master’s degree and 3 or more years’ experience developing software or a PhD with 0 or more years software development experience.

• Senior Principal Software Engineer: Bachelor’s degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) discipline from an accredited university with 9 or more years software development experience, or Master’s degree and 7 or more years’ experience