Northrop Grumman Australia · 11 hours ago
Principal Engineer Software/Senior Principal Engineer Software (Tracking)
United States-Florida-Melbourne
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$98K/yr - $148K/yr
5+ years expNorthrop Grumman is a leading aerospace and defense company, and they are seeking a Principal Engineer Software or Senior Principal Engineer Software to join their Global Surveillance Division in Melbourne, Florida. The role involves deploying, automating, maintaining, and improving systems and software infrastructure, requiring hands-on technical experience and collaboration in an agile development environment.
Defense & Space
No H1B
Security Clearance RequiredU.S. Citizen Only
Responsibilities
Deploying, automating, maintaining, troubleshooting, and improving the systems and software infrastructure running smoothly
Design and implementation of application builds, releases, deployment along with configuration activities
Working with internal business partners to gather requirements, prototyping, and architecting complex solutions supporting the building and test plan execution, performing quality reviews, and triaging and fixing operational issues
Assist with the integration, troubleshooting and testing of implemented software changes
Develop, modify, and maintain customized or standardized applications using software engineering best practices and standards, and participate in the full life cycle of software development, to include requirements development, modeling and design, application development, unit to CSCI testing, integration, formal system testing, release, installation, and maintenance
Apply technical expertise in solving complex integrations problems
Interact with Program Management, external suppliers and/or government customers
Supporting the gathering and reporting software metrics
Support software working groups with the customer
Follow program software best practices and ensure software best practices are followed
Develop software products within all phases of the software lifecycle
Develop and support systems to receive, store, process, display, correlate, fuse and forward surface data from multiple sources
Analyze the system as a whole and determine potential impacts of integrating new technologies
Developing software products implemented from algorithms
Debug complex tracking problems, often working with Systems Engineering
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree and 5-years of experience in software engineering OR a Master's degree and 3-years of experience OR a PhD degree and 0-years of experience for Principal Engineer
Bachelor's degree and 8+ years of experience in software engineering OR a Master's degree and 6+ years of experience OR a PhD degree and 2+ years of experience for Senior Principal Engineer
Higher proficiency understanding and developing multi-target trackers, adaptive processing, or sensor fusion algorithms
Demonstrated programming experience/expertise in C/C++ or other OO language
Demonstrated knowledge/experience of Linear Algebra, Probability, and Kalman Filters
Experience developing software to receive, store, process, display, correlate, fuse and forward surface data, Synthetic Aperture Radar, Maritime Moving Target Indicator, Inverse Synthetic Aperture Radar, High Range Resolution, EO/IR, and Electronic Protection from multiple sources
Demonstrated experience with tracker SW and its components (i.e. association, correlation, time propagation, measurement conditioning, and track maintenance)
Familiarity with the Agile software development process
Ability to communicate effectively with customers, senior leadership, and other engineering disciplines
Ability to obtain and maintain a DoD Secret security clearance
Able to obtain and maintain a program special access program clearance
US Citizenship required
Preferred
Master's Degree or PhD in a STEM discipline including electives in radar techniques and signal processing
Experience with MATLAB
Experience developing software on both Windows and Linux platforms
Familiarity with the Atlassian tool suite with add-ons like Git and Confluence
Experience with formal software or systems test
Experience with DOORS
Experience modeling Software in Cameo
Proficient in Ada, C++
High level experience and proficiency in signal processing or RF applications
Proficiency with optimal estimation algorithms (Kalman Filtering), digital beamforming, or adaptive processing
Experience integrating and testing modes/algorithms on RADAR, SIGINT, EOIR, or EW systems
Active In-scope DoD Top Secret Clearance
Has been previously approved for special access programs
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