Engineer Software (AHT)

Requisition ID: R10174838

• Category: Engineering
• Location: Northridge, California, United States of America
• Clearance Type: Secret
• Telecommute: No- Teleworking not available for this position
• Shift: 1st Shift (United States of America)
• Travel Required: Yes, 10% of the Time
• Relocation Assistance: Relocation assistance may be available
• Positions Available: 1

Northrop Grumman Advanced Weapons has an opening for a Software Engineer to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals. This position will be in Northridge, CA.

As an integral part of our multi-discipline engineering team in Advanced Weapons, you will be on the forefront of developing next generation solutions to protect technology for our nation’s warfighters. The ideal candidate will be supporting one of our programs for defining and architecting a secured missile weapon system. This position will require close collaboration with team members of other projects within the organization for security architecture designs as well as external partners and customers.

Roles and responsibilities

A successful candidate will have the qualities and essential functional expertise to:

• Generate software documentation.
• Develop, implement, and maintain existing software for both embedded devices/systems as well as desktop test software based on requirements.
• Participate in all aspects of the software development lifecycle activities.
• Software requirements verification and validation.
• Use test equipment to troubleshoot software and hardware.

Basic qualifications for a Software Engineer level (T02):

• Bachelor’s Degree in a STEM related field with 2 years Computer Engineering or Software Engineering experience, or Master’s with 0 years Computer Engineering or Software Engineering.
• Self-starters and able to efficiently operate in a multi-discipline team environment.
• Professional experience developing software in C/C++.
• Professional experience developing desktop applications in C, C++, C#, or Java.
• Experience with full software lifecycle: specification, design, implementation, integration, debug, and maintenance are required.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a DoD Secret Clearance, United States citizenship is a prerequisite.
• Experience operating oscilloscopes, power meters, power supplies, signal generator, and spectrum analyzers.
• Must have an active security clearance.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with software version control tools such as Git.
• Extensive experience with Windows Desktop applications in C#.
• Experience in embedded systems design with preemptive, multitasking real-time operating systems.
• Experience using Atlassian Tool Suite: JIRA, Confluence, and Bitbucket.
• Ability to troubleshoot hardware/software and identify root cause issues.
• Ability to set up test equipment to support software development.
• Experience working with hardware programmers such as JTAG.
• Understanding of TCP/IP protocols, serial communication, and MIL-STANDARD 1553 protocol.
• Active Secret Clearance.

Salary Range: $87,200 - $130,800
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.

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.