Northrop Grumman · 1 day ago
Embedded & Real-Time Staff Engineer Software - R10217121
Northrop Grumman is a leading company in technological advancements, seeking an Embedded & Real-Time Staff Engineer Software to join their team. The role involves designing, developing, integrating, and testing software for embedded and real-time systems, collaborating with multi-disciplinary teams in an Agile environment.
AerospaceData IntegrationManufacturingRemote SensingSecurity
Responsibilities
Work independently in a fast-paced environment with high expectations, significantly diverse assignments, and collaborative team settings across all levels
Participate in the full software development life cycle including requirements, design, implementation, qualification, and delivery of software products to our customers
Develop architectures and operate in an embedded technology development environment working with real time operating systems for use in flight and mission critical systems
Work in Agile Scrum teams to develop software products for multiple software baselines
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) discipline from an accredited university and at least 12 years' experience, or STEM master's degree with 10 years' experience, or a STEM PHD with 8 years' experience
Experienced with C++ and Python
Experience with Object Oriented Analysis and Design (OOAD)
Experience managing the Software Requirements process and their Verification and Validation
Experience with developing software used for one of the following real-time applications: flight critical software, Safety critical software, medical software, or mission critical software
Experience with one of the following real time operating systems: Wind River VxWorks, Green Hills Integrity, or Realtime Linux
Your ability to obtain and/or transfer and maintain the final 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
Experience with CoreVMS and RTCF
Experience with three of the following tools: Jira, Crucible, Bitbucket, Subversion, Bamboo, Jenkins, SonarQube, Fortify, or Coverity
Experience with multiple serial bus data interfaces (including UDP/IP over Ethernet), communicating and managing the health of external devices
Experience with one of the following real time operating systems: Wind River VxWorks, Green Hills Integrity, or Realtime Linux
Experience with Agile software architecture, design, development, embedded system programming, software integration and testing
Experience with the airworthiness process
Strong understanding of closed loop control system architectures
Experience with the full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
Excellent communication, interpersonal skills, and the ability to interface with all levels of employees and management
Strong understanding of PowerPC or ARM assembly language
Understands assembly emitted by C/C++ compilers for typical code constructs
Has developed code in assembly to support low level drivers, BSPs, or critical performance implementations
Strong understanding of redundancy architectures and requirements that drive them such as: Hot/warm restarts, Cross-channel data links, Software synchronization, Duplex vs triplex vs quad computer implementations
Strong understanding of embedded software architectures and requirements that drive them
Strong understanding of hardware interfaces in the software architecture and their impacts
Ability to collaborate with systems engineers, hardware designers and integration/test engineers to develop and maintain complex software systems
Experience with leading a medium to large size (6-20) technical team with technical decision making
Active Secret DoD Clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain a Top-Secret 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
Northrop Grumman is an aerospace, defense and security company that provides training and satellite ground network communications software.
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$3.7BKey Investors
U.S. Department of DefenseNASA
2025-05-27Post Ipo Debt· $1B
2024-01-29Post Ipo Debt· $2.5B
2023-12-20Grant· $72M
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