Sr. Principal Engineer Software - Embedded & Real Time (San Diego CA)

$137,400 - $206,000/Yr

Northrop Grumman - San Diego, CA

Full-time - Senior

Remote - San Diego, CA

Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing

About the position

The Sr. Principal Engineer Software - Embedded & Real Time position at Northrop Grumman involves designing, developing, integrating, and testing software for embedded and real-time systems. This role requires collaboration with multi-disciplinary teams in an Agile environment, focusing on flight and mission-critical systems. The engineer will participate in the full software development life cycle and resolve system capability issues to meet program requirements.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, integrate, and test software for end-user customers and businesses.
• Participate in the full software development life cycle including requirements, design, implementation, qualification, and delivery of software products.
• Operate in an embedded technology development environment working with real-time operating systems for flight and mission-critical systems.
• Work in Agile Scrum teams to develop software products for multiple software baselines.
• Analyze system capabilities to resolve problems on program intent, output requirements, input data acquisition, programming techniques, and controls.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in a STEM discipline with 8 years of related engineering experience; OR a Master's degree in STEM with 6 years of related engineering experience; OR a PhD in STEM with 4 years of related engineering experience.
• 8 years experience with the full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• 8 years experience with developing software for real-time applications such as flight critical software, safety critical software, medical software, or mission critical software.
• Experience with three of the following tools: Jira, Crucible, Bitbucket, Subversion, Bamboo, Jenkins, Sonarqube, Fortify, or Coverity.
• Familiarity with at least four data interfaces: 1553, 1394, 429, Serial, CAN, Discrete & Analog I/O, Ethernet/IP, or Fibre Channel.
• Experience with one of the following real-time operating systems: Wind River VxWorks, Green Hills Integrity, or Realtime Linux.
• Must have United States Citizenship and DoD Interim Secret clearance or higher.

Nice-to-haves

• Strong understanding of PowerPC or ARM assembly language.
• Knowledge on how to perform maintenance on OS partition and isolation architectures.
• Experience with leading a medium size (6-10) technical team with technical decision making.
• Active Secret DoD Clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain a Top Secret Clearance.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

Benefits

• Health insurance coverage
• Life and disability insurance
• Savings plan
• Company paid holidays
• Paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business
• Discretionary bonuses based on individual contributions and company results