Northrop Grumman is a pioneering company that provides revolutionary systems impacting lives worldwide. They are seeking a Software Engineer to support critical design, development, integration, and testing of product support software, utilizing best practices in software engineering to enhance future aircraft technologies.
Designs, develops, documents, tests, and debugs applications software and systems that contain logical and mathematical solutions
Conducts multidisciplinary research and collaborates with equipment designers and/or hardware engineers in the planning, design, development, and utilization of electronic data processing systems for product and commercial software
Determines computer uses needs; analyzes system capabilities to resolve problems on program intent, output requirements, input data acquisition, programming techniques and control
Ensures software standards are met
Work to increase domain knowledge and key skills required by VMC developers
Initiative to engage senior developers and the product lead early with any encountered technical challenges
Develop software to meet documented requirements
Work assigned defect reports in a timely fashion to support incremental product builds and releases
Build a commitment to first-time software quality by developing code unit tests of developed software, and being equally meticulous in code peer reviews of other developers’ software changes
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) discipline from an accredited university with 2 Years experience; OR a master's degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) discipline from an accredited university with 0 Years experience
Knowledge of Agile software development using C++ and/or Python in a Windows or Red Hat Enterprise Linux environment
Your ability to obtain and/or transfer and maintain the final adjudicated government Secret clearance, and any program access(es) required for the position within a reasonable period of time, as determined by the company
Preferred
Knowledge of VxWorks 7, VxWorks 6.9, BSP, DPIU or other RTOS OS (Green Hills)
Knowledge of object-oriented design and software lifecycles
Experience with version control software and configuration management processes
Experience with debugging software
Experience using source-control management tools
Experience using defect-tracking tools
Experience in Aerospace or Defense industry (development or test)
AGILE process knowledge, AGILE training for Scrum Master and Product Owner
Experience developing on a program that delivers periodic releases in a process-driven CMMI environment for a government customer
Experience developing software in a real-time, multi-threaded, rate-monotonic scheduling architecture
Experience with requirements management tools (e.g. DOORS, Cameo)
Python scripting knowledge
CMAKE script knowledge
Git source control knowledge and Atlassian Suite (Jira, BitBucket, etc) knowledge
Experience developing in C/C++ for real-time, flight critical systems
Real time computer graphics and OpenGL or Vulkan
Knowledge of Stores Management System (SMS)
Experience with HW/SW Integration
Experience in software development to include any of the following: kernel mode, embedded, command and control, web applications, network applications, Open Mission Systems (OMS)
Benefits
Health insurance coverage
Life and disability insurance
Savings plan
Company paid holidays
Paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business
Northrop Grumman is an aerospace, defense and security company that provides training and satellite ground network communications software.
