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Staff Software Engineer

Northrop Grumman • Melbourne, FL • 2d ago

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: Yes

CLEARANCE TYPE: Top 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 Aerospace Systems Sector has an opening for a Staff Software Engineer . This Architect will lead technical efforts supporting capture and strategy for a key and critical program. This position will support a 9/80 schedule and is based in Melbourne, FL and will be primarily based on site within our office spaces to support the program and business needs. The position does not have remote or Hybrid work available.

This position will be supporting capture and strategy for a key and critical program. This candidate will closely work with business development, business directors, external customers, and external subject matter experts to shape the feasibility of new missions and architectures. This candidate will closely work with business development, business directors, external customers, and external subject matter experts to shape the feasibility of new missions and architectures.

Essential Functions:

We are seeking a talented and highly motivated software architect with experience in communicating with customers, stakeholders, software developers, system engineers, and senior leadership to collect mission requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, develop feature roadmaps, and product strategy. Job includes shaping the long-term technical strategy to evolve and deliver software architecture to enable various DoD missions. Lead mission decomposition into functions, requirements, interface definitions that can be implemented by software developers. Ensure the software architecture remains aligned with Government Reference Architectures (GRAs).

Basic Qualifications:

Staff Software Architect (T05): Bachelor's Degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) discipline and at least 12 years' experience, or STEM master's degree with 10 years' experience, or a STEM PHD with 8 years' engineering experience.

This position requires the ability to obtain and maintain a DoD Top Secret clearance as well as Program Special Access within a reasonable amount of time as determined by the company to meet its business needs

Contingency: This position is contingent upon ability to obtain a DoD Top Secret Clearance, can start with interim Top Secret

Experience with Agile best practices and processes; tasking, accountability, interception, process enforcement

Experience designing and architecting on-board mission system software ensuring portability, modularity, adaptability, and scalability.

Knowledge of engineering practices and patterns for the full software/hardware/network development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and V&V

Experience designing micro-service based containerized software using open standards

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience with capture activities, including RFI/RFP preparation, customer presentations and demonstrations, and competitor analysis

Experience with Government Reference Architectures like DoDAF, MOSA, OMS, FACE, and/or UCI.

Comms and RF Systems Experience

Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, scaling) operational user experiences

Systems Engineering and Cameo Modeling

Experience collecting and analyzing CPU throughput utilization, data bus bandwidth utilization, and CPU memory utilization statistics

Experience integrating sensors and payloads from suppliers.

Primary Level Salary Range: $152,900.00 - $229,300.00

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.

Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and 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.

The application period for the job is estimated to be 20 days from the job posting date. However, this timeline may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates.

Northrop Grumman is an Equal Opportunity 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. For our complete EEO and pay transparency statement, please visit http://www.northropgrumman.com/EEO. U.S. Citizenship is required for all positions with a government clearance and certain other restricted positions.

Job Category: Engineering

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