Software Engineer - Level 4 - (25-540)

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 has an exciting career opportunity for an Sr Principal Software Engineer – Level 4 – M&S Product Team Lead to join our talented and diverse team. Based in Colorado Springs, CO, this role is crucial in supporting the U.S. President, the Secretary of Defense, and combatant commanders at strategic, regional, and operational levels.

NOTE: This position is only available to current and active C2BMC personnel currently working on the program.

This position does not provide relocation assistance and requires on-site work with no remote options.

Position Overview:

The Command and Control, Battle Management, and Communications (C2BMC) program is an essential part of the Missile Defense System. It provides a critical operational platform that enables the U.S. president, the secretary of defense, and combatant commanders at strategic, regional, and tactical levels to systematically plan missile defense operations, monitor battle progress, and actively control networked sensors and weapon systems to achieve global and regional mission objectives. C2BMC offers a layered missile defense capability, providing an optimized response to threats across all ranges and flight phases. It acts as a force multiplier by connecting, integrating, and synchronizing autonomous sensor and weapon systems and operations both worldwide and locally to improve overall performance. Additionally, C2BMC is a key component of all ground and flight tests that verify and demonstrate the missile defense system's current and future capabilities.

The primary role of the Modeling and Simulation (M&S) Product Team Lead is to develop emulators, integrate third-party simulators, create scenarios, and anchor models and system behaviors for the C2BMC-G organization within the Command and Control, Battle-Management, and Communications (C2BMC) program, which supports the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) and Space Force (SF) customers. Additionally, the M&S Product Team Lead is expected to occasionally provide technical expertise to support the co-located Experimentation Lab (X-Lab) on the C2BMC program. This role involves supporting a wide range of topics, with increasing scope and complexity as assigned. Past topics have included sensor emulation, interface exchange behaviors, scenario development, coordinate transformations of state vectors and covariances across different coordinate systems, implementation of Kalman filtering, radar signal processing, various metaheuristics for performance optimization, and use-case development and testing. Work closely with C2BMC-G and X-Lab agile teams to understand concepts, algorithms, and logging to prototype Modeling and Simulation Tools and generate scenario datasets.

Essential Functions:

• Use math, physics, statistics, data parsing, plotting, and database techniques to create Algorithm Description Documents (ADDs) and reference implementations of algorithms, then commit them to Git repositories for version control
• Create unit tests, ideally as Cucumber scenarios, to support the transition and development of MATLAB reference implementations in Java
• Use DevSecOps principles to set up and maintain nightly pipelines for automated analysis, testing, and continuous integration testing of algorithm reference implementations
• Provide demonstrations of their ADDs and reference implementations during Agile sprints with their respective Integrated Product Team (IPT) to the C2BMC-G Project Owners (POs) and C2BMC-G Release Train Engineer (RTE)
• Provide technical support to the C2BMC-G IPTs to develop M&S tools that assist in verifying and validating the tactical implementation of algorithms
• Develop technical briefs and deliver briefings to both internal and external stakeholders at Technical Interchange Meetings (TIMs)
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