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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 Mission Systems Sector (NGMS) is seeking a Senior Principal Embedded C/C++ Software Engineer to join our Tactical Fighters team within the Software Technologies Organization.This role will work in an exciting area of new and existing technologies that come together in a holistic security architecture on a Tactical Fighter Platform. We are working with system level Security designs, development, and implementation within a digital lab environment in addition to tactical deployment. If you're looking for experience from the lowest level of software development up through userspace applications, that works together harmoniously with system security requirements and digital design architecture, then we have a program role for you! Come work on products that help protect America and protect our warfighters!Job DutiesThe Senior Principal Embedded Software Engineer will join a team of engineers performing new feature development and enhancements, providing secure, embedded security solutions on our Tactical Fighter platform. The selected engineer will aid in the design, development, and integration of complex software solutions in a rapid-pace Agile environment. Primary software solutions in development include C/C++ application and capability development for Linux and/or VxWorks Platforms. The engineer will interface with architects, systems and digital engineers to develop technical specifications. The engineer will help identify technical risks, support defect resolution, and report status to Agile program leads. This person will also assist in the execution of unit, system, and integrations tests as need. We have individual contributor and agile leadership roles available.We offer phenomenal learning opportunities, exposure to a wide variety of projects and customers, and a very friendly collaborative workplace. We are looking for self-motivated, proactive, and goal-oriented people to help us grow our services and become even better at what we do.Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree with 9 years of experience, a master's degree with 7 years of experience, or a PhD with 4 years of experience in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Applied Physics, Applied Mathematics, or related technical fields.
- Strong C/C++ background
- Experience working on an Agile (Scrum) team
- Tools: Git, Atlassian (BitBucket, Confluence, Jira), Jenkins, Nexus, static & dynamic code analysis (i.e., SonarQube)
- Applied cryptography and middleware experience (e.g., OpenSSL, TLS)
- US Citizenship
- Active DoD Secret clearance
- Python background, and some knowledge in JAVA, JVM & RMI
- Experience developing boot software (First stage bootloader, U-boot, UEFI, etc.) for custom boards
- Experience developing register-level models of hardware IP in SystemC/TLM2
- Experience developing Device Tree files for custom hardware
- Device Driver development
- Size and speed optimizing software for embedded platforms
- Modifying and integrating open-source software
- DevOps practices and tools
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