About the position
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. Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems has an opening for an Embedded Software Engineer to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals within our Software organization. This role is located in San Diego, CA. In this role you will design, develop, integrate and test software for our end-user customers and businesses. Specifically, you will be responsible for the design, architecture, development, and administration of embedded and real time systems. You will work with multi-disciplinary teams, such as with Systems Engineering, Cloud & Application, Test Automation, DevSecOps and Systems Test, in an Agile software development environment. You will analyze system capabilities to resolve problems on program intent, output requirements, input data acquisition, programming techniques and controls.
Responsibilities
- Work in a fast-paced environment with high expectations, significantly diverse assignments, and collaborative team settings across all levels
- Participate in the full software development life cycle including requirements, design, implementation, qualification, and delivery of software products to our customers
- Operate in an embedded technology development environment working with real time operating systems for use in flight and mission critical systems
- Work in Agile Scrum teams to develop software products for multiple software baselines
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in a STEM discipline (Science, Technology, Engineering or Math) with 2 years of related engineering experience; OR a Master's degree in STEM with 0 years of related engineering experience
- Experience with the full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
- Experience with at least two of the following programming or scripting languages: C, C++, and Python
- Experience with developing software used for one of the following real-time applications: flight critical software, Safety critical software, medical software, or mission critical software
- Experience with two of the following tools: Jira, Crucible, Bitbucket, Subversion, Gitlab, Jenkins, Sonarqube, Fortify, or Coverity
- Experience with one of the following real time operating systems: Wind River VxWorks, Green Hills Integrity, or Realtime Linux
- Experience with Agile software development, embedded system programming, software integration and testing
- Familiarity with at least two of the data interfaces: 1553, 1394, 429, Serial, CAN, Discrete & Analog I/O, Ethernet/IP, or Fibre Channel
- Excellent communication, interpersonal skills, and the ability to interface with all levels of employees and management
- Active DoD Top Secret (in-scope) with the ability to obtain (and maintain) special program access (PAR)
Nice-to-haves
- Basic understanding of PowerPC or ARM assembly
- Able to read assembly and use CPU documentation to understand behaviors
- Familiar with SW containers, and virtual Network interfaces
- Can identify moderate execution defects by only reading code
- Understanding of how their CSC will fit into a larger software system / architecture
- Able to document, capture, and present software architectural components in modeling or diagramming tool
- Familiarity with OS partitions and isolation architectures
- High level understanding of architectural requirements for airworthiness certifications
- Strong understanding of layered software architectures (e.g. Application, System, Device)
- Strong understanding of the following concepts: Software hardware interfaces and where they exist in the architecture; Event driven (Interrupts), polling and synchronous software architectures
- Ability to collaborate with systems engineers, hardware designers and integration/test engineers to develop and maintain complex software systems
- Experience with leading a small size (1-5) technical team with technical decision making
Benefits
- Health insurance coverage
- Life and disability insurance
- Savings plan
- Company paid holidays
- Paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business
