Northrop Grumman Australia · 1 month ago
Sr. Principal Flight Software Engineer (Secret Clearance)
United States-California-Manhattan Beach
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$142K/yr - $213K/yr
6+ years expNorthrop Grumman is a leading aerospace and defense technology company, and they are seeking a Sr. Principal Flight Software Engineer to drive program execution toward software delivery schedules. The role involves developing, integrating, and testing software for flight, space, and ground systems while guiding process improvements and leading a team of engineers.
Defense & Space
No H1B
Security Clearance RequiredU.S. Citizen Only
Responsibilities
Direct a team of engineers and coordinate with stakeholders
Effectively drive program execution toward the software delivery schedule
Leverage software development best practices to right-size the needs of the effort (e.g. configuration management, unit testing)
Guide process improvement, especially in configuration management, code quality practices, making optimal tasking assignments, and understanding and documenting the technical baseline and architecture
Requirements decomposition/generation
Report status and metrics to program leadership
Design, develop, document, integrate, test, and debug application 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, integration, and utilization of electronic data processing systems for product 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; designs and develops utility programs
Ensure software standards are met
Design and execute tests to ensure the software's functionality, performance, and reliability
Other duties as assigned
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related STEM discipline with 8+ years of software development experience OR Master's Degree in a STEM discipline with 6+ years of software development experience
Strong proficiency in C/C++ programming
Experience with VxWorks 6.9 and/or 7.0
Candidate must currently have an active DoD Secret clearance at the time of application and be able and willing to obtain and maintain a DoD Top Secret/SCI clearance
Preferred
Experience with MIL-STD-1553B, SpaceWire, and CAN bus implementations and structured protocols
Experience in Agile process and Atlassian Tool Suite (Jira, BitBucket, etc.)
Experience using SIMICS, VectorCast, GoogleTest
Active DoD Top Secret/SCI clearance
Benefits
Health insurance coverage
Life and disability insurance
Savings plan
Company paid holidays
Paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business
Company
Northrop Grumman Australia
Northrop Grumman Australia is the Australia-based arm of Northrop Grumman Corporation and committed to generating long-term prosperity, investing in advanced Research & Development, sovereign and exportable Intellectual Property, high-quality jobs and long-term technology leadership across the Commonwealth.
501-1000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageCompany data provided by crunchbase