Principal Software Engineer/Sr. Principal Software Engineer

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE TYPE: None

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.

Strategic Space Systems Division (SSSD) is an industry-leading provider for launch systems capabilities serving national security, military, and civil customers. We are built on a heritage of providing innovative, affordable, and reliable aerospace and defense products that our customers rely on to achieve mission success. Join the Space revolution and make the impossible, possible.

Northrop Grumman Strategic Space Systems is hiring a Principal Software Engineer/Sr. Principal Software Engineer with the Software Engineering organization based out of Manhattan Beach, CA. 
 

The Principal Software Engineer/Sr. Principal Software Engineer will develop software which will operate in a resource constrained target environment with soft and hard real time requirements for various flight/space/ground systems. The software will typically implement complex data analysis, data routing, and/or control systems algorithms. Candidate will need familiarity with various processor, memory, and I/O architectures and be able to implement both procedural and object-oriented software in C++. The selected candidate will work with real-time operating systems and their associated host/development environments and tools. Must be comfortable working in a lab environment.
 

Additional responsibilities include (but are not limited to):

• Design, develop, integrate and test real-time flight software that implements a payload controller in a RISC-V soft processor running in a RTG4 FPGA in about 1 year.
• Develop key software functions including mechanism control, telemetry reporting, fault monitoring, and stored command sequence responses and failover to a redundant processor.
• Develop software in C++ in FreeRTOS. The software will largely be developed in the unclassified environment but may have some functions added in a classified environment.
• Applies the appropriate standards, processes, procedures, and tools throughout the system development life cycle to support the generation of such engineering applications.
• Interface with application users, hardware and systems engineering teams in a lab environment.
   

This requisition may be filled at either a Principal Software Engineer level or a Sr. Principal Software Engineer level based on the qualifications listed below.
 

Basic Qualifications – Principal Software Engineer:

• Bachelor's Degree in a STEM discipline with 5+ years of software development experience OR a Master's Degree in a STEM discipline with 3+ years of software development experience, OR Ph.D. with 1+ years of software development experience
• Strong proficiency in C or C++ programming
• Experience executing in a RTOS environment (i.e., RT-Linux, FreeRTOS, VxWorks, GH Integrity)
• Candidate must be able and willing to obtain and maintain a DoD Top Secret clearance and Special Program Access
   

Basic Qualifications – Sr. Principal Software Engineer:

• Bachelor's Degree in a STEM discipline with 8+ years of software development experience OR a Master's Degree in a STEM discipline with 6+ years of software development experience, OR Ph.D. with 4+ years of software development experience
• Strong proficiency in C or C++ programming
• Experience executing in a RTOS environment (i.e., RT-Linux, FreeRTOS, VxWorks, GH Integrity)
• Candidate must be able and willing to obtain and maintain a DoD Top Secret clearance and Special Program Access

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience developing on RISC-V soft processor running in a RTG4 FPGA
• Working knowledge of standard test equipment: network analyzers, oscilloscopes, waveform generators, synthesizers, digitizers, and/or signal analyzers.
• Active Top Secret/PAR with poly security clearance.
• Experience with FreeRTOS