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Staff Embedded Software Engineer
Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation · 🇺🇸 United States-Maryland-Baltimore
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About the role
RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: No relocation assistance available CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: Yes CLEARANCE TYPE: 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. Northrop Grumman Mission Systems (NGMS) is seeking a Staff Embedded Software Engineer to join our innovative Software and Digital Technologies Organization. This position is located in Baltimore, MD. What You’ll Get To Do: As a Staff Embedded Software Engineer within the Software and Digital Technologies Organization, you will have a challenging and rewarding opportunity to be a part of our Software Architecture group. The new team member will work on software systems for mission systems in all phases of the software development lifecycle, primarily in C/C++. The new team member will be responsible for architecting software within the domain of Mission Operational Flight Programs (OFPs) and elements of Mission Systems that interact with OFPs. Our success is grounded in our ability to embrace change, move quickly and continuously drive innovation. The successful candidate will be collaborative, open, transparent, and team oriented with a focus on team empowerment & shared responsibility, flexibility, continuous learning and a culture of automation. Roles and Responsibilities: • Drive architectural decisions that support development and maturation of mission system software. • Participate in a product line ecosystem and support development and maturation of software building blocks. • Collaborate with other software and systems architects to maximize re-use and software portability • Provide product ownership, tasking, and technical direction for a team of embedded software engineers • Analyze, develop, modify, and test existing software, apply modern development techniques that take advantage of all that current technology has to offer • Identify risks, suggest mitigation, track defects, develop resolutions, and report status • Work alongside multi-disciplined engineering teams to provide technical leadership, derive requirements, and design solutions • Work with Systems Integration and Test to test and verify software products on simulators and actual production hardware in our System Integration Laboratories • Leverage advancements in Digital Twins and Models and Simulation to perform early integration, drive down risk, and verify performance and requirements as early as possible • Identify and assess new technologies prior to implementation • Active participation with systems engineering in technical peer, design, architecture, and system reviews to ensure system/software requirements are being met from an end-to-end system point of view • Represent the software team for program management office and customer engagements Basic Qualifications: • Bachelor’s Degree in a STEM field with 12 years of related experience, Master’s degree with 10 years of related experience, Ph.D. with 8 years of related experience • U.S Citizenship is required. • Must be able to obtain a Secret Clear