Top Secret Software Quality Engineer (Senior Principal)

Northrop Grumman; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 104,000 - 194,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Paid time off

Job summary

Northrop Grumman is seeking a Principal Engineer Software Quality or Sr. Principal Engineer Software Quality to be based on-site in Woodland Hills, CA.

The role focuses on developing and maintaining software quality evaluation plans, working with engineering teams to ensure high standards, and supporting verification, audits, and metrics reporting. Candidates must have a STEM degree with extensive relevant experience and hold an active Top-Secret clearance.

Qualifications

• Requires BS in Engineering or STEM with 5+ years (3+ with MS) of relevant software development/integration experience.
• Experience with Agile, Waterfall or Spiral development processes.
• Experience in collecting software data and metrics for reporting.
• Active Top-Secret Clearance; US Citizenship required.

Responsibilities

• Develop, modify, apply, and maintain quality evaluation plans for software and materials.
• Collaborate with program and engineering management on quality objectives.
• Work with software and systems engineering to ensure quality standards are followed.
• Assist with verification and validation testing of software and system products.
• Support audits of quality systems and corrective actions.
• Ensure documentation meets requirements and documents are compliant.
• Assist in collecting and reporting software metrics.

Skills

Bash

Python

Linux

Git

MS Office

Agile

Scripting

DevOps

Windows 11

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or STEM

Master's Degree in Engineering or STEM

Tools

GitLab

Windows 11

Job description

Northrop Grumman is seeking a Principal Engineer Software Quality or Sr. Principal Engineer Software Quality to be based on-site in Woodland Hills, CA.

The role focuses on developing and maintaining software quality evaluation plans, working with engineering teams to ensure high standards, and supporting verification, audits, and metrics reporting. Candidates must have a STEM degree with extensive relevant experience and hold an active Top-Secret clearance.