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**Description**
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 worlds 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.
Northrop Grumman Space Systems is seeking a Software Engineer to help develop and maintain a suite of MATLAB-based software applications for mission planning and flight operations of NASAs Chandra spacecraft. The Chandra X-ray Observatory, launched in 1999, is one of NASAs Great Observatories and its science impact spans nearly every domain in astrophysics, from cosmology and fundamental physics to the impact of stellar flares on the habitability of exoplanets. These science returns arise from Chandras unique and essential capabilities sub-arcsecond spatial resolution and high spectral resolution which has no peer in X-ray astrophysics and no replacement on the horizon. (NASA Astrophysics Advisory Committee 2022 Senior Review report, p. 2)
The Northrop Grumman Flight Operations Team operates the Chandra spacecraft from the Operations Control Center in Burlington, MA. The team uses a variety of software to develop observation plans, execute real-time supports, analyze spacecraft performance, and prepare for future activities. A large portion of this software is MATLAB-based and is designed around a number of mission-specific graphical user interfaces.
The selected candidate will become part of the small Software section of the Flight Operations Team. The applicant should be a motivated self-starter who is able to design, implement, and test new software functionality both independently and in close collaboration with peers, users, and customers. Tasking will initially be focused on implementing new features, expanding unit and regression test infrastructure and coverage, responding to user requests, upgrading to new versions of MATLAB and Python, integrating peer and customer code, and performing general maintenance and development of the codebase. Responsibilities are expected to expand over time to cover other software and systems that support Chandra Flight Operations.
Telecommute options may be available.
**Basic Qualifications**
+ Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Math, Physics, or related STEM discipline and 5 years of engineering experience OR Master's degree in a STEM discipline and 3 years of engineering experience. OR a PhD in a STEM discipline
+ Minimum two years software development experience
+ Proficiency in MATLAB software development
**Preferred Qualifications**
+ Experience developing graphical user interfaces
+ SVN and Git revision control system experience
+ Python software development experience
+ Web development experience (HTML/CSS, JavaScript, PHP)
+ Experience with Unix/Linux systems
+ Software unit, integration, and system testing experience
Salary Range: $101,400.00 - $152,200.00
Employees may be eligible for a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay. Annual bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions as well as allow employees to share in company results. Employees in Vice President or Director positions may be eligible for Long Term Incentives. In addition, Northrop Grumman provides a variety of benefits including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, savings plan, Company paid holidays and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business.
**The health and safety of our employees and their families is a top priority** . The company encourages employees to remain up-to-date on their COVID-19 vaccinations. U.S. Northrop Grumman employees may be required, in the future, to be vaccinated or have an approved disability/medical or religious accommodation, pursuant to future court decisions and/or government action on the currently stayed federal contractor vaccine mandate under Executive Order 14042 https://www.saferfederalworkforce.gov/contractors/ .
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