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About the role
RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be 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 Technologies organization. The new team member will work on software systems for mission systems in all phases of the software development lifecycle, primarily in C/C++. 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 Enterprise-wide digital transformation. Through the use of Model-based Engineering, DevSecOps and Agile practices we continue to evolve how we deliver critical national defense products and capabilities for the warfighter. 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:
• Analyze, develop, and modify 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
• Design, construct, and execute unit tests, and build verification test plans, and track and report test status
• Work alongside a multi-disciplined engineering teams to test and verify software products on simulators and actual production hardware in our System Integration Laboratories
• 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
“This position is contingent based on anticipated contract award and funding.”
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Basic Qualifications:
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related STEM Degree and 12 years of related experience or a MS Degree and 10 years experience.
• US Citizenship
• Must be able to obtain a Secret Clearance. Secret Clearance is required to start. Must be able to maintain this level of clearance for continued employment.
• Experience working in C/C++
• Experience with real-time embedded software
• Experience with full software lifecycle: specification, design, implementation, integration, debug and maintenance
Preferred Qualifications:
• Experience in algorithmic application development and optimization
• Experience with VxWorks and/or Linux Operating Systems
• Experience with Visual Studio
• Experience with Matlab
• Experience with Coverity, SonarQube and/or KlocWork tools
• Experience in Open Architec
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