Sr Principal Engineer Software – Test Verification Engineer (25-303)

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: No relocation assistance 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 Space Systems—Launch and Missile Defense Systems is offering an exciting opportunity for a Sr. Principal Engineer Software – Test Verification Engineer (25-303) to join our team of skilled and diverse professionals. This role, based in Huntsville, AL, is crucial in supporting the U.S. President, Secretary of Defense, and combatant commanders at strategic, regional, and operational levels.

Relocation assistance is not available for this position, and this role is on-site with no remote options.

Position Overview:

The Command and Control, Battle Management, and Communications programs (C2BMC) are crucial components of the Missile Defense System. They are essential operational systems that enable the U.S. president, the secretary of defense, and combatant commanders at strategic, regional, and operational levels to systematically plan ballistic missile defense operations, monitor battle progress, and actively control designated networked sensors and weapon systems to achieve global and regional mission objectives. C2BMC provides a layered missile defense capability that delivers an optimized response to threats across all ranges and flight phases. It functions as a force multiplier by networking, integrating, and synchronizing autonomous sensor and weapon systems and operations both worldwide and locally to enhance performance. Additionally, C2BMC is a vital part of all system ground and flight tests, which verify and demonstrate the current and future capabilities of the missile defense system.

The chosen candidate will oversee software requirements verification for the Track Server product team, including securing customer approval of test procedures, verifying automated test processes, developing and managing software tools to support computerized requirements verification, and collaborating with the Track Server scrum teams to analyze software performance, observations, and requirements verification. They will also assist with software development as needed and help manage lab assets.

Essential Functions:

• The analysis experience should involve evaluating the performance of systems, software, or components using quantitative methods
• Report on the characterization of future users
• Contributing to performance assessment by program system engineers, this experience may come from independent efforts or participation within test teams
• Must possess strong verbal and written communication skills, enabling them to coordinate with software development teams' requirements and shortcomings, communicate clearly with systems engineers and architects, analyze test results, and present verification analysis to the Government customer

Basic Qualifications:

Please note your updated security clearance and IAT/relevant certifications on your resume, if applicable.

• A Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Business, Mathematics, Physics, or a related field from an accredited university is preferred, along with 8 years of experience; or a Master’s degree in a related field with 6 years of relevant work experience;
• Applicants must possess a current, active in-scope DoD-issued Secret security clearance at the time of application, which is required to start
• A DoD 8140 certification at IAT Level II or higher (Security+, GSEC, SCNP, SSCP, CISSP, CISA, GSE, SCNA, etc.) is required to start
• Must have experience testing and assessing software-heavy systems in different test settings, using Agile development methods
• Requires a highly motivated individual capable of solving problems with support from other test engineers and software developers
• Must have experience using:
  • DoD test methodologies
  • Functional capability-related