US CITIZENSHIP REQUIRED FOR THIS POSITION: Yes

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE TYPE: None

TRAVEL: No

**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 Mission Systems is a trusted provider of mission-enabling solutions for global security. Our Engineering and Sciences (E&S) organization pushes the boundaries of innovation, redefines engineering capabilities, and drives advances in various sciences. Our team is chartered with providing the skills, innovative technologies to develop, design, produce and sustain optimized product lines across the sector while providing a decisive advantage to the warfighter. Come be a part of our mission!

We are looking for you to join our team as a **Software Engineer or Principal Software Engineer** based out of **McClellan, CA** . As a **Software Engineer or Principal Software Engineer** at Northrop Grumman you will have a challenging and rewarding opportunity to be a part of our Enterprise-wide digital transformation. Through the use of Model-based Engineering, DevSecOps and Agile practices we continue to evolve how we deliver critical national defense products and capabilities for the warfighter. Our success is grounded in our ability to embrace change, move quickly and continuously drive innovation. The successful candidate will be collaborative, open, transparent, and team-oriented with a focus on team empowerment & shared responsibility, flexibility, continuous learning, and a culture of automation.

The sector strategic Independent Research And Development (IRAD) initiatives are seeking software developers and integrators who have experience in cloud-native technologies, architectures, and techniques, with a keen interest in learning how to apply these techniques and architectures to the embedded, edge and forward deployed systems. Ideally, experience in software development and integration for embedded systems is desired, but not required. In addition, the ideal candidate would have an understanding of the impact to software deployments and configurations on various processing platforms, with limited resources. Our team uses agile development methods to support multiple projects with a single engineering team, and is committed to using Dev*Ops processes for enabling systems of systems solutions. Our initiatives are seeking candidates who are self-starters, interested in investigating the art of the possible with cloud-native technologies, enabling new use cases.

**What Youll Get To Do:**

The new team member will design, develop, document, test and debug applications software and systems that contain logical and mathematical solutions. Conduct multidisciplinary research and collaborates with equipment designers and/or hardware engineers in the planning, design, development, and utilization of electronic data processing systems for product and commercial software. Determine computer user needs; analyzes system capabilities to resolve problems on program intent, output requirements, input data acquisition, programming techniques and controls; prepares operating instructions; designs and develops compilers and assemblers, utility programs, and operating systems. Ensure software standards are met.

**Responsibilities:**

+ Cross-compile mature software for various processing architectures
+ Use container engines and container tools to develop OCI-compliant container images for existing software applications (e.g. Docker images)
+ Design, develop, document, test and debug applications software and systems that contain logical and mathematical solutions
+ Follow software development standards for configuration management, software reuse, and Dev*Ops processes
+ Contribute to/consume from product line software

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_This position may be filled as a Software Engineer or Principal Software Engineer_

**Basic Qualifications for a Software Engineer:**

+ Bachelor's Degree and a minimum of 2 years related years of experience. An additional 4 years of experience in lieu of degree may be considered.
+ Experience with C++.
+ Experience with containers, container development and deployment.
+ Understanding of all phases of software development.
+ Must be able to obtain a security clearance if needed.

**Basic Qualifications for a Principal Software Engineer:**

+ Bachelor's Degree and a minimum of 5 years related years of experience. An additional 4 years of experience in lieu of degree may be considered.
+ Experience with C++.
+ Experience with containers, container development and deployment.
+ Understanding of all phases of software development.
+ Must be able to obtain a security clearance if needed.

**Preferred Qualifications:**

+ STEM degree preferred
+ Understanding of Cloud Native Compute Foundation evaluation categories
+ Understanding of DoDs PlatformOne infrastructure offering, and Iron Bank container registry
+ Experience creating, deploying, dynamically adjusting containers for systems
+ Experience with kubernetes (K8s and k3s) and cloud-native operating systems
+ Experience with software factories and Dev*Ops
+ Experience with BitBucket, JIRA, Jenkins, Confluence, and other Atlassian tools
+ Experience with C
+ Experience with Python, BASH, and other scripting languages
+ Experience with LINUX/UNIX
+ Practical experience in an Agile / Dev*Ops environment
+ Bachelor degree in a STEM discipline (Science, Technology, Engineering or Math)
+ Experience with object-oriented SW development

Salary Range: $82,400.00 - $123,600.00Salary Range 2: $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/ .

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 http://www.northropgrumman.com/EEO . U.S. Citizenship is required for most positions.