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Sr. Principal Software Engineer - Lab Models & Sims

Northrop Grumman
FLME226, United States, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 25 Sept 2025
💰 $178,000/yr($118,600/yr$178,000/yr)

About the role

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.

Please note that this opportunity is contingent on program funding.  Start dates are determined after funding confirmation.

Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems has an opening for a Sr. Principal Software Engineer – DevOps to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals within our organization. This position is located in Melbourne, FL

In this role, you will be working with the latest technology to modernize software product production with DevOps - continuous build, continuous integration, continuous test, continuous cyber, continuous deployment, and continuous metrics on aerospace programs. Specifically, you will be responsible for the design, architecture, development, deployment, and operation of modern DevOps software factory. You will work with multi-disciplinary teams, such as with Systems Engineering, Real-time & Embedded Software, Test Automation, DevOps, and Systems Test in an Agile software development environment.

Responsibilities include, but not limited to:

  • The selected candidate will join a customer-focused multi-discipline development team committed to providing cutting-edge requirement-based Lab Models & Simulations (LMS).

  • Participate in software (SW) development life cycle including project planning, requirements/analysis, design, implementation, testing, deployment, and/or maintenance of LMS.

  • Participate in Agile Scrums to develop state-of-the-art software, continuously improving & releasing baselines.

  • Work with team to add your technical content to LMS presentations for internal and external (customer) reviews.

  • Evaluate & report on advancements in models & simulations to ensure NGC is and remains the leader in the rapidly evolving simulation software market (note: reward & recognition for patents).

Basic Qualifications:

  • Bachelor of Science degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics discipline from an accredited university with 8 years of experience in engineering; OR Master of Science degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics discipline from an accredited university with 6 years of experience in engineering; OR PhD in a Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics discipline from an accredited university with 4 years of experience in engineering.

  • Your ability to obtain and/or transfer and maintain the final adjudicated government Secret clearance, and any program access(es) required for the position within a reasonable period of time, as determined by the company.

  • Experience with any the following tools: Bamboo, Bitbucket, Confluence, Coverity, Crucible, Fortify, Gitlab, Jenkins, JIRA, Nexus, or SonarQube.

  • Experience with at least one (1) of the following programming or scripting languages: C++, C#, Java, and/or LabView.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Experience with these types of simulation models Monte Carlo, Agent-based, Discrete events, or System dynamics.

  • Experience with the following: working with digital signal processing, complex valued signal data, or analytical modeling approaches using MATLAB.

  • Familiar with Modeling, Simulation, Experimentation, and Analysis (MSE&A) of advanced systems using object‑oriented design, advanced data structures, and/or test-driven development.

  • Participated in the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC); project planning, requirements/analysis, design, implementation, testing, deployment, and/or maintenance.

  • Ability to prepare technical presentations using approved template for internal and external (customer) reviews.

  • Ability to brief technical content to LMS team, program management, customer, and/or other stakeholders.

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