Sr. Principal Flight Software Engineer (Secret Clearance)

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be availableCLEARANCE TYPE: SecretTRAVEL: Yes, 10% of the Time Description At Northrop Grumman, our employees have incredible opportunities to work on revolutionary systems that impact people's lives around the world today, and for generations to come. Our pioneering and inventive spirit has enabled us to be at the forefront of many technological advancements in our nation's history - from the first flight across the Atlantic Ocean, to stealth bombers, to landing on the moon. We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage and a pioneering spirit to join forces to invent the future, and have fun along the way. Our culture thrives on intellectual curiosity, cognitive diversity and bringing your whole self to work - and we have an insatiable drive to do what others think is impossible. Our employees are not only part of history, they're making history.Expand your horizons, advance your career, and contribute to a secure future for generations. Northrop Grumman's Space Sector invites you to bring your pioneering spirit to our collaborative teams. As a Sr. Principal Flight Software Engineer (Level 4) located in Manhattan Beach, CA, you'll be a linchpin in missions of paramount importance, defining the art of the possible from day one.

Please be aware that this position will be contingent upon capturing program award, obtaining customer funding, and holding final clearances (if applicable) prior to start date

The Sr. Principal Flight Software Engineer (Level 4) will drive program execution toward software delivery schedule and should be familiar with software development best practices to right-size the needs of the effort (e.g. configuration management, unit testing). The selected candidate will guide process improvement, especially in configuration management, code quality practices, making optimal tasking assignments, and understanding and documenting the technical baseline and architecture.

The selected candidate will develop, integrate, and test software which will operate in a resource constrained target environment with soft and hard real-time requirements for various flight/space/ground systems. The software will typically implement complex data analysis, data routing, and/or control systems algorithms. The selected candidate will need familiarity with various processors, memory, and I/O architectures and be able to implement both procedural and object-oriented software in C++. The statement of work entails working with real-time operating systems and their associated host/development environments and tools.

The ideal candidate should have academic and work experience in software engineering and development across the full life cycle for automated test sets/test systems on aerospace programs. Experience working in a process-oriented environment utilizing agile processes is also desired. The selected candidate should also have strong verbal and written communication skills and be comfortable working on large teams with talented engineers from other engineering disciplines. Must be comfortable working in a lab environment and be able to provide technical leadership for more junior team members.

Job responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:

Direct a team of engineers and coordinate with stakeholders
Effectively drive program execution toward the software delivery schedule
Leverage software development best practices to right-size the needs of the effort (e.g. configuration management, unit testing).
Guide process improvement, especially in configuration management, code quality practices, making optimal tasking assignments, and understanding and documenting the technical baseline and architecture.
Requirements decomposition/generation
Report status and metrics to program leadership
Design, develop, document, integrate, test, and debug application software and systems that contain logical and mathematical solutions.