Sentinel Staff Software Integration Engineer - *16863

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: Yes

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 in air and space that impact people’s lives around the world today, and for generations to come. Our work preserves freedom, democracy, and advances human discovery and our understanding of the universe. We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage and a pioneering spirit to join forces to invent the future and have a lot of 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 has an opening for a Staff Software Integration Engineer to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals. This position can be located in Huntsville, AL or Roy, UT.

Position Benefits:

As a full-time employee of Northrop Grumman, you are eligible for our robust benefits package including:

• Medical, Dental & Vision coverage

• 401k

• Educational Assistance

• Life Insurance

• Employee Assistance Programs & Work/Life Solutions

• Paid Time Off

• Health & Wellness Resources

• Employee Discounts

This positions standard work schedule is a 9/80. The 9/80 schedule allows employees who work a nine-hour day Monday through Thursday to take every other Friday off.  This role may offer a competitive relocation assistance package.

Core Technical Skills

• Python proficiency – writing clean, testable code; familiarity with virtual environments, packaging, and type hints
• Embedded/hardware interfaces – UART, SPI, I²C, CAN, USB, JTAG, GPIO, PWM, ADC/DAC
• Real-time operating systems (RTOS) or bare-metal development basics
• Hardware description/validation tools – Oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, multimeters, power supplies, test rigs
• Firmware build systems – Make, CMake for cross-compilation
• Version control – Git (branching, sub-modules, pull-request workflow)
• CI/CD for embedded – Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI with hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) runners

Software-Hardware Integration

• Designing and implementing drivers/APIs that expose hardware functionality to Python
• Using communication protocols (Modbus, MQTT, OPC?UA) to bridge software services and devices
• Managing bootloaders, firmware upgrades, and configuration flashing

Testing & Validation

• • Unit/Component testing – pytest, unittest, hypothesis for pure-Python modules
• • Hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing – automated scripts that program devices, run stimulus, capture response, and assert results
• • System-level testing – Robot Framework, TestStand, or custom Python harnesses that coordinate multiple subsystems
• • Automated measurement – pyvisa / pyserial to drive test equipment and log data
• • Coverage & static analysis – coverage.py, pylint, mypy

DevOps & Deployment

• Containerizing test environments (Docker) for simulation and host-side tools
• Managing artifact repositories for firmware binaries (Artifactory, Nexus)
• Using over-the-air (OTA) or in-field update pipelines

Methodologies

• Agile/Scrum or Kanban for cross-functional teams
• Familiarity with the V-model or ISO?26262-style verification flows in safety-critical domains

Soft Skills

• Strong analytical debugging – ability to trace issues from software logs down to signal integrity on a PCB
• Clear communication with electrical engineers, firmware developers, and QA testers
• Documentation