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Principal Software Engineer (Active Secret Clearance Required)
Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation · 🇺🇸 United States-Oklahoma-Oklahoma City
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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 is seeking an experienced Software Engineer to join our dynamic team. This position will support our Aeronautics Systems sector in Oklahoma City, OK . The selected candidate will join our team of software engineers to: • Support the development of Strategic Operating Units, executing both sustainment and modernization programs. • Contribute to software engineering initiatives for several programs with software design & development, software test and integration, and DevOps expertise • Use a variety of software languages, technologies, and industry best practices. • Support all phases of the development life cycle for flight, mission, lab and tools software. Basic Qualifications : • Bachelor's degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) discipline from an accredited university and 5 years of related experience; OR Master’s degree in a STEM discipline with 3 years of related experience; OR PhD with 1 year of related experience • Familiar with Safety-Critical Embedded Real Time Software. • Familiar with all phases of the software development life cycle and Agile framework as a Product Owner, SCRUM Master, and/or team member. • Experience with developing software and scripts on various programming languages: C, C++, Python, PowerShell, VBScript, Bash, AND/OR KornShell for Safety-Critical applications/Systems. • Familiar with Architecting, Designing, Implementing, Integrating, Verifying and Qualifying Safety-Critical Embedded Real Time Software running on various RTOS (VxWorks, Integrity, Real Time Embedded Linux). • Familiar with Static & Dynamic Code Analysis Tools and Fuzzing Tools such as: Coverity, Fortify, AND/OR SonarQube • Familiar with Software Change Control, Change Management, and CI/CD tools. • Active U.S Government Secret level clearance OR Top Secret (in-scope) , with the ability to obtain (and maintain) special program access (PAR). Preferred Qualifications : • Demonstrated leadership, teamwork capabilities, excellent oral and written communications skills, and strong interpersonal communication skills at all levels of employees and management. • Experience with Agile Software Development, object-oriented architectures, designs, programming, debugging, and hardware-software integration and testing. • Experience with Software Change Control, Change Management, Code Quality, Static Analysis, and CI/CD tools such as: Atlassian tool suite, Jira, GitHub, GitLab, SonarQube, Coverity, AND/OR Jenkins • Experience architecting, Designing, Modeling (Rhapsody or Cameo), Implementing, Maintaining, integrating, and Debugging OO C++ software running on Real-Time Operating systems such as: VxWorks, Integrity, AND/OR Real Time Embedded Linux. • Experience with DOORs AND Software Requirement Specification Testing using Simulators, auto