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Principal/Sr. Principal Embedded Software Engineer

Northrop Grumman
CANR01, United States, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 27 Aug 2025
💰 $171,700/yr($110,300/yr$171,700/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.

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 Advanced Weapons has an opening for a Principal/Sr. Principal/Embedded Software Engineer with an active clearance, to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals. This position will be in Northridge, CA.

As an integral part of our multi-discipline engineering team in Advanced Weapons, you will be on the forefront of developing next generation solutions to protect technology for our nation’s warfighters. The ideal candidate will be supporting one of our programs for defining and architecting a secured missile weapon system. This position will require close collaboration with team members of other projects within the organization for security architecture designs as well as external partners and customers.

Roles and responsibilities

A successful candidate will have the qualities and essential functional expertise to:

  • Develop and implement software for embedded devices and systems based on requirements.
  • Design٫ develop٫ code٫ test and debug system software.
  • Participate in all aspects of the software development lifecycle activities in an agile environment.
  • Software requirements verification and validation.

Relocation assistance, while not guaranteed, may be available.

The selected candidate for this position is required to be on-site in Northridge, CA.

Basic qualifications for a Principal Embedded Software Engineer level (T03): 

  • Bachelor’s Degree in a STEM related field with 5 years Computer Engineering or Software Engineering experience, or Master’s with 3 years Computer Engineering or Software Engineering.
  • Self-starters and able to efficiently operate in a team environment.
  • Experience with one or more Software languages/technologies: C/C++, Java, Python, C#.
  • Experience with full software lifecycle: specification, design, implementation, integration, debug, and maintenance are required.
  • Experience in embedded software development.
  • Ability to obtain and maintain a DoD Secret Clearance, United States citizenship is a prerequisite.
  • A year or more of experience working in an Agile team.

Basic qualifications for a Sr. Principal Embedded Software Engineer level (T04): 

  • Bachelor’s Degree in a STEM related field with 8 years Computer Engineering or Software Engineering experience, or Master’s with 6  years Computer Engineering or Software Engineering.
  • Self-starters and able to efficiently operate in a team environment.
  • Experience with one or more Software languages/technologies: C/C++, Java, Python, C#.
  • Experience with full software lifecycle: specification, design, implementation, integration, debug, and maintenance are required.
  • Experience in embedded software development.
  • Ability to obtain and maintain a DoD Secret Clearance, United States citizenship is a prerequ

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