Senior Embedded Software Engineer; Secret Clearance & Travel

Northrop Grumman; Essex (MD); On-site; USD 136,000 - 204,000; Full time

Job summary

Northrop Grumman Mission Systems in Baltimore, MD is seeking a Sr Principal Embedded Software Engineer to join our Software Technologies Organization. You will contribute to the development of mission-critical software across the lifecycle, primarily in C/C++, applying MBSE, DevSecOps, and Agile practices.

The role emphasizes collaboration, continuous learning, and automation, with opportunities to test in simulators and production labs and to influence system-level design and architecture.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science/Engineering or related STEM Degree.
• US Citizenship required.
• Must be able to obtain a Secret Clearance. Secret Clearance is required to start.
• Must be able to obtain Special Program Access (SAP).
• Must be able to maintain this level of clearance and SAP for continued employment.
• Must have 6 years’ experience working in C/C++.
• Must have 6 years’ experience with real-time embedded software.
• Must have 6 years’ experience with full software lifecycle: specification, design, implementation, integration, debug and maintenance.

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

Software lifecycle

Education

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

Tools

VxWorks

Linux

Visual Studio

Matlab

Coverity

SonarQube

Clockwork

Kubernetes

Model Based Engineering

DevSecOps

Atlassian tool set

Job description

Northrop Grumman Mission Systems in Baltimore, MD is seeking a Sr Principal Embedded Software Engineer to join our Software Technologies Organization. You will contribute to the development of mission-critical software across the lifecycle, primarily in C/C++, applying MBSE, DevSecOps, and Agile practices.

The role emphasizes collaboration, continuous learning, and automation, with opportunities to test in simulators and production labs and to influence system-level design and architecture.