Secret-Cleared Senior Principal Embedded Software Engineer

Jobtome; Dundalk (MD); On-site; USD 136,000 - 204,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Health insurance

Life and disability insurance

Savings plan

Company paid holidays and PTO

Job summary

Northrop Grumman Mission Systems in Baltimore, MD, is seeking a Sr Principal Embedded Software Engineer to advance our digital transformation. You'll work on mission-system software primarily in C/C++, using Model-based Engineering and Agile practices to deliver defense capabilities. A collaborative, transparent team culture supports learning and automation.

The role requires 8 years of related experience, U.S. citizenship, a Secret Clearance with SAP, and full software lifecycle expertise.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science/Engineering or related STEM Degree; 8 years of related experience.
• U.S. Citizenship required.
• Secret Clearance (and SAP) required to start; maintain clearance.
• 6 years’ experience in C/C++.
• 6 years’ experience with real-time embedded software.
• 6 years’ experience with full software lifecycle.

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, execute unit tests, build verification test plans, and track report test status.
• Work alongside 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.

Skills

C/C++

Real-time embedded

Software lifecycle

US Citizenship

Secret Clearance

Special Program Access (SAP)

Bachelor's degree

Kubernetes

DevSecOps

Visual Studio

Matlab

Coverity

SonarQube

Clockwork

VxWorks

Linux

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science/Engineering or related STEM Degree

Tools

Kubernetes

DevSecOps

Visual Studio

Matlab

Coverity

SonarQube

Clockwork

VxWorks

Linux

Job description

Northrop Grumman Mission Systems in Baltimore, MD, is seeking a Sr Principal Embedded Software Engineer to advance our digital transformation. You'll work on mission-system software primarily in C/C++, using Model-based Engineering and Agile practices to deliver defense capabilities. A collaborative, transparent team culture supports learning and automation.

The role requires 8 years of related experience, U.S. citizenship, a Secret Clearance with SAP, and full software lifecycle expertise.