United States-California-Manhattan Beach, United States
$165-248k
Full Time
6 hours ago
Job description
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 for launch systems capabilities serving national security, military, and civil 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 Space Systems is looking for you to join our team as a Staff Software Engineer with the Software Engineering organization based out of Manhattan Beach, CA.
*Please be aware that this position will be contingent upon capturing program award, obtaining customer funding, and holding final clearances prior to start date.*
The Staff Software Engineer (Software Lead) will develop software which will operate 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 object-oriented software in C++. Candidate will work with real-time operating systems, such as Linux or VxWorks, and their associated host/development environments and tools. The selected candidate must be comfortable working in a lab environment.
Additional responsibilities include (but are not limited to):
- 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 and commercial software.
- Determine overall system and user needs; analyze system capabilities to resolve problems on program intent, output requirements, input data acquisition, programming techniques and controls; prepares operating instructions; design and develop compilers and assemblers, utility programs, and operating systems.
- Ensure software standards are met.
The Software Lead should have academic and work experience in software engineering and development across the full life cycle for multiple domains and systems such as aerospace programs, embedded systems, test set/special test equipment, or ground system applications. The role requires experience working in a process-oriented environment utilizing waterfall, spiral, or agile processes. The Software Lead should have strong verbal and written communication skills, strong team building skills, and comfortable working on large teams with engineers from other engineering disciplines. The selected candidate will provide technical leadership for more junior team members.
*This position is contingent upon capturing program award, obtaining customer funding, and holding final clearances prior to start date*
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related STEM degree with 12+ years software development experience OR Master’s Degree with 10+ years of software development experience, OR Ph.D. with 8+ years of software development experience
- Strong proficiency in OO design and in C++ programming, executing in a RTOS environment (i.e., FreeRTOS, RT-Linux, VxWorks 6.9 and 7.0, GH Integrity)
- Experience designing, developing, integrating, verifying, and qualifying real-time embedded software including experience with software and systems engineering
- Prior experience working in a fast-paced lab environment with rapid development
- Experience and demonstrated ability to lead, manage, mentor a small technical team
- Candidate must have an active, within scope, or current U.S. Government DoD Secret security clearance at time of application with the ability and willingness to obtain and maintain Top Secret or SCI access
Preferred Qualifications:
- CAM/EVMS experience
- Experience in Agile process and Atlassian Tool Suite (Jira, BitBucket, etc)
- SpaceWire bus implementations and structured protocols
- Experience with Command and Telemetry
- Experience with SIMICS
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