Staff Engineer Electrical

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE TYPE: Top 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.

The Payload and Ground Systems, a division within Northrop Grumman’s Space Systems Sector is known for pushing the boundaries of innovation, redefining engineering capabilities, and driving advances in various sciences through cutting-edge technology.  Our team is chartered with providing the skills, and innovative technologies to develop, design, produce, and sustain optimized product lines across the sector while providing a decisive advantage to the warfighter. Come be a part of our mission!

Northrop Grumman Space Systems is seeking a Staff-level Software Engineer to join our team supporting the Integrated National Systems (INS) Business Unit (BU). This position would be based in the Aurora, CO.

Job responsibilities will include, but not be limited to: Technical leader and focal point for the development team – ensuring software is well designed and of high quality. Support designing embedded software/firmware applications to support real time processing of RF signals and designing and manipulating pulsed waveforms.  Support the Delivery Lead/Project Manager in developing project roadmaps, understanding delivery time scales, and communicating these to the customer. Liaison with the Product Owner to manage the product road map and communicating the impact of changing customer requirements. Identifying technical risks/opportunities and proactively developing plans to mitigate and realize them. Experience in leading an Agile software development team of mixed abilities.

This position requires being onsite and does not support remote or hybrid work.

Basic Qualifications:

• Must have an active TS/SCI clearance at time of application. Must be willing to obtain a Ci Poly after starting work.
• Masters in electrical engineering with a focus in digital signal processing with 10+ years of software development experience.
• Experience designing embedded software/firmware applications to support real time processing of RF signals.
• Expert in designing and manipulating pulsed waveforms.
• Firm understanding of RF theory to include time domain and frequency domain signal analysis.
• Expert in software defined radio architectures to include REDHAWK.
• Demonstrated experience writing python signal processing applications
• Experience of leading an Agile software development team of mixed abilities
• Hands on experience of developing software in Java, JavaScript, and Python.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Perform hands-on development and actively contribute to the code base including peer review of code
• Liaison with the Product Owner to manage the product road map and communicating the impact of changing customer requirements
• Identifying technical risks/opportunities and proactively developing plans to mitigate and realize them
• Understanding of Cloud-based architectures in AWS or Azure
• Understanding of database technologies such as SQL, Elasticsearch or MongoDBM
• Experience supporting the Delivery Lead/Project Manager in developing project roadmaps, understanding delivery time scales, and communicating these to the customer.
• Understanding of Cloud-based architectures in AWS or Azure.
• Use of DevOps Automated Deployment tools such as Jenkins, Gitlab, Docker, OpenShift or Kubernetes.

Salary Range: $171,000.00 - $256,400.00

The above salary range represents a general guideline; however, Northrop Grumman considers a number of factors when determining base salary offers such as the scope and responsibilities of the position and the candidate's experience, education, skills and current market conditions.

Employees may be eligible for a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay. Annual bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions as well as allow employees to share in company results. Employees in Vice President or Director positions may be eligible for Long Term Incentives. In addition, Northrop Grumman provides a variety of benefits including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, savings plan, Company paid holidays and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business.

The application period for the job is estimated to be 20 days from the job posting date. However, this timeline may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates.

Northrop Grumman is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class. For our complete EEO/AA and Pay Transparency statement, please visit http://www.northropgrumman.com/EEO. U.S. Citizenship is required for all positions with a government clearance and certain other restricted positions.