Sr Principal Engineer Software - Embedded and Real Time

Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems is looking to add a Sr Principal Embedded & Real Time Software Engineer to assist our Software organization. This position will be based on site in San Diego, CA, El Segundo, CA or Palmdale, CA., * Work in a fast-paced environment with high expectations, significantly diverse assignments, and collaborative team settings across all levels

• Participate in the full SW development life cycle including requirements, design, implementation, qualification, and delivery of SW products to our customers
• Operate in an embedded technology development environment working with real time operating systems for use in flight and mission critical systems
• Work in Agile Scrum teams to develop SW products for multiple SW baselines

• Bachelor’s Degree in a STEM discipline and 8 years of related engineering experience; or Master’s degree and 6 years of experience; or PhD and 4 years of experience.
• Experience with the full SW Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Experience with programming and scripting languages: C, C++, and Python
• Experience with developing multi-threaded SW used for flight critical, safety critical, medical or mission critical applications
• Experience with two of the following tools: Jira, Crucible, Bitbucket, Subversion, Bamboo, Jenkins, Sonarqube, Fortify, or Coverity
• Experience with Agile SW development, embedded system programming, SW integration and testing
• Familiarity with at least two of the data interfaces: 1553, 1394, 422, 429, Serial, CAN, Discrete & Analog I/O, Ethernet/IP, or Fibre Channel
• Excellent communication, interpersonal skills, and the ability to interface with all levels of employees and management
• Recent experience and proficiency in software architecture, design, implementation, integration and debugging C++ SW running on Real-Time Operating systems such as VxWorks, Integrity, and/or Real Time Embedded Linux
• Ability to collaborate with systems engineers, hardware designers, and integration/test engineers to develop and maintain complex SW systems
• Ability to transfer and maintain the final adjudicated U.S. government Top Secret clearance (must be in scope or enrolled in Continuous Evaluation) and any program access required within a reasonable period of time
• Ability to obtain and maintain initial Special Program Access (SAP/PAR) before employment and maintain upgrade, * Current applicable SAP access
• Basic understanding of PowerPC or ARM assembly; able to read assembly and use CPU documentation to understand behaviors; identify moderate execution defects by reading code
• Understanding of how the embedded SW component will fit into a larger SW system/architecture
• Ability to document, capture, and present software architectural components in modeling or diagramming tools
• Familiarity with OS partitions and isolation architectures
• High level understanding of architectural requirements for airworthiness certificates
• Strong understanding of layered SW architectures (Application, System, Device); SW hardware interfaces; event driven (interrupts), polling and synchronous SW architectures
• Recent experience and proficiency with SW change control, change management, static analysis, and CI/CD tools such as Atlassian suite, Jira, GitHub, GitLab, SonarQube, Coverity, and/or Jenkins within the last three years
• Experience with static and dynamic code analysis

• Primary Level Salary Range: Not disclosed (placeholder)
• Position may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and discretionary bonus in addition to base pay
• Annual bonuses reward individual contributions and company results
• Employees may be eligible for Long-Term Incentives
• Benefits include health insurance, life and disability insurance, savings plan, paid holidays, paid time off, and more