Principal/Senior Principal Engineer Embedded Software
Northrop Grumman

Job Info

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Join Northrop Grumman on our continued mission to push the boundaries of possible across land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace. Enjoy a culture where your voice is valued and start contributing to our team of passionate professionals providing real-life solutions to our world's biggest challenges. We take pride in creating purposeful work and allowing our employees to grow and achieve their goals every day by Defining Possible. With our competitive pay and comprehensive benefits, we have the right opportunities to fit your life and launch your career today.
Discover careers that change the world and further advancements in defense, technology, and engineering today at Northrop Grumman. Use your experience to grow your career and support our global customers with the technology, systems, and solutions they need to enable their missions on the front lines and secure our world every day. With Northrop Grumman, you'll discover a culture built on diversity, respect, and above all teamwork. Together with our group of experts across the technical spectrum, you'll discover opportunities to make a difference in our world and start solving some of the world's most critical problems in the most innovative ways.

Northrop Grumman is looking for a top-notch, focused, and dedicated Embedded Software Engineer to join our team of engineers at the Quick Reaction Capabilities (QRC) Support Center located in Rolling Meadows, IL. The QRC Support Center supports and maintains laboratory test stations, transportable flight line electronic combat system test sets, and airborne RF and IR systems.
What you will do:
Design, develop, document, debug and test software applications and computing system software to be applied to and integrated with engineering, scientific and manufacturing requirements. Apply the appropriate standards, processes, procedures and tools throughout the system development life cycle to support the generation of such engineering applications and products.
This position may be filled as a Principal Embedded Software Engineer or a Senior Principal Embedded Software Engineer.

Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications for Principal Embedded Software Engineer:
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or STEM related discipline
• 5+ years embedded software engineering experience with related BS degree/ 3+ years embedded software engineering experience with related MS degree
• US Citizenship and the ability to obtain a US Government Secret Clearance
• Experience dealing with performance optimizations in a symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) environment in a multi-core CPU system
• Documenting software design using Unified Modeling Language (UML)
• Experience programming with C# for user interface enhancements
• Software testing/debugging in a laboratory environment
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, strong team building skills, and be comfortable working on a team with other engineering disciplines.
Basic Qualifications for Senior Principal Embedded Software Engineer:
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or STEM related discipline
• 9+ years embedded software engineering experience with related BS degree/ 7+ years embedded software engineering experience with related MS degree
• US Citizenship and the ability to obtain a US Government Secret Clearance
• Experience dealing with performance optimizations in a symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) environment in a multi-core CPU system
• Documenting software design using Unified Modeling Language (UML)
• Experience programming with C# for user interface enhancements
• Software testing/debugging in a laboratory environment
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, strong team building skills, and be comfortable working on a team with other engineering disciplines.

Preferred Qualifications:
Experience in the design, development and test, or sustainment of airborne electronic systems
Experience with VxWorks and Linux operating systems
Familiarity with version control software (SVN/Git)
Experience with common Linux IDE debugging environments- such as Eclipse.
Current/Active DoD Secret Security Clearance

Northrop Grumman is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class. For our complete EEO/AA and Pay Transparency statement, please visit www.northropgrumman.com/EEO. U.S. Citizenship is required for most positions.

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