Staff Navigation Payload Software Lead (Secret Clearance Required)

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: No relocation assistance available

CLEARANCE TYPE: Secret

TRAVEL: Yes, 50% 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 of launch systems capabilities serving national security, military, civil and commercial 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's Strategic Space Systems Division (SSSD) is looking for a Navigation Payload Software Lead to support our Communications Systems Software (CSS) department. As a member of the CSS department, you’ll work in a fast-paced team environment to make our technologies a reality. This position will serve on-site at Redondo Beach, CA, with 50% travel to Woodland Hills, CA, in managing the execution, development, integration, and delivery of a navigation payload system.
 

The Navigation Payload Software Lead should have management experience and will be responsible for directing a team of engineers and coordinating with teams from different sectors and divisions. The selected candidate will drive program execution toward software delivery schedule and should be familiar with software development best practices to right-size the needs of the effort (e.g. configuration management, unit testing). The Navigation Payload Software Lead should have experience with VxWorks and Workbench, as well as experience or familiarity with the technical baseline, such as Pointing, Navigation, and Timing (PNT), and Global Positioning System (GPS). The selected candidate will guide process improvement, especially in configuration management, code quality practices, making optimal tasking assignments, and understanding and documenting the technical baseline and architecture.
 

The Navigation Payload system encompasses software development 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 embedded software in C/C++ utilizing real-time operating system (VxWorks) and Wind River Workbench.
 

The ideal candidate should have academic and work experience in software engineering and development across the full life cycle for automated test sets/test systems on aerospace programs. Experience working in a process-oriented environment utilizing agile processes is also desired. The selected candidate should also have strong verbal and written communication skills and be comfortable working on large teams with talented engineers from other engineering disciplines. Must be comfortable working in a lab environment.

Responsibilities:

• Direct a team of engineers and coordinate with stakeholders from different sectors and divisions
• Effectively drive program execution toward software delivery schedule
• Leverage software development best practices to right-size the needs of the effort (e.g. configuration management, unit testing).
• Guide process improvement, especially in configuration management, code quality practices, making optimal tasking assignments, and understanding and documenting the technical baseline and architecture.
• Requirements decomposition/generation
• Report status and metrics to program leadership
• Design, develop, document, test, and debug applications software and systems that contain logical and mathematical solutions.
• Conduct multidisciplinary research and collaborate with equipment designers and/or hardware engineers in the planning, design, development, and utilization of electronic data processing systems for product software.
• Determine overall system and user needs; analy