Principal Software Engineer
At a glance
Senior Engineering Leadership role at Ngc. United States-Oklahoma-Oklahoma City · full-time · $93,300–$139,900 base.
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What you'll do
- Build and maintain flight, mission, lab and tool software across sustainment and modernization programs
- Contribute design, development, testing and integration work across several software engineering programs
- Support software throughout its development lifecycle, including DevOps work and software testing
- Apply programming languages and engineering practices to safety-critical embedded real-time systems
What you bring
- A STEM degree plus five years of related experience, a master’s plus three years, or a doctorate plus one year
- Working knowledge of safety-critical embedded real-time software and the software development lifecycle, including Agile
- Experience programming or scripting in C, C++, Python or another listed language for safety-critical systems
- Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Secret clearance and any required program access
Who this fits
This role suits an experienced software engineer working on safety-critical embedded systems and flight or mission software. The position is based in Oklahoma City, requires Secret clearance, and includes travel about ten percent of the time. Relocation assistance may be available.
From the employer
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 is seeking an experienced Software Engineer to join our dynamic team. This position will support our Aeronautics Systems sector in Oklahoma City, OK.
The selected candidate will join our team of software engineers to:
- Support the development of Strategic Operating Units, executing both sustainment and modernization programs.
- Contribute to software engineering initiatives for several programs with software design & development, software test and integration, and DevOps expertise
- Use a variety of software languages, technologies, and industry best practices.
- Support all phases of the development life cycle for flight, mission, lab and tools software.
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) discipline from an accredited university and 5 years of related experience; OR Master’s degree in a STEM discipline with 3 years of related experience; OR PhD with 1 year of related experience
- Familiar with Safety-Critical Embedded Real Time Software.
- Familiar with all phases of the software development life cycle and Agile framework as a Product Owner, SCRUM Master, and/or team member.
- Experience with developing software and scripts on various programming languages: C, C++, Python, PowerShell, VBScript, Bash, AND/OR KornShell for Safety-Critical applications/Systems.
- Familiar with Architecting, Designing, Implementing, Integrating, Verifying and Qualifying Safety-Critical Embedded Real Time Software running on various RTOS (VxWorks, Integrity, Real Time Embedded Linux).
- Familiar with Static & Dynamic Code Analysis Tools and Fuzzing Tools such as: Coverity, Fortify, AND/OR SonarQube
- Familiar with Software Change Control, Change Management, and CI/CD tools.
- Your ability to obtain and/or transfer and maintain the final U.S. adjudicated government Secret clearance and any program access(es) required for the position within a reasonable period of time, as determined by the Company
Preferred Qualifications:
Active U.S. government Secret clearance
- Demonstrated leadership, teamwork capabilities, excellent oral and written communication skills, and strong interpersonal communication skills at all levels of employees and management
- Experience with Agile Software Development, object-oriented architectures, designs, programming, debugging, and hardware-software integration and testing.
- Experience with Software Change Control, Change Management, Code Quality, Static Analysis, and CI/CD tools such as: Atlassian tool suite, Jira, GitHub, GitLab, SonarQube, Coverity, AND/OR Jenkins
- Experience architecting, Designing, Modeling (Rhapsody or Cameo), Implementing, Maintaining, integrating, and Debugging OO C++ software running on Real-Time Operating systems such as: VxWorks, Integrity, AND/OR Real Time Embedded Linux.
- Experience with DOORs AND Software Requirement Specification Testing using Simulators, automated scripting languages such as Python, MATLAB, JavaScript, AND/OR Bash.
- Experience with Static & Dynamic Code Analysis Tools and Fuzzing Tools such as: Coverity, Fortify, AND/OR SonarQube
- Experience with software network interfaces -and troubleshooting networks (TCP/IP, UDP, LAN, VLAN, SNMP or others).