
Principal Engineer Software - Embedded and Real Time (Florida & Oklahoma)
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Description
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 a Principal Software Engineer - Embedded and Real to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals. This position will be located onsite in Melbourne, Florida or Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Accomplish
In this role you will design, develop, integrate, modify and maintain customized or standardized embedded mission systems applications using software engineering best practices and standards, and participate in the full life-cycle of software development, to include requirements development, modeling and design, application development, unit to CSCI testing, integration, formal system testing, release, installation, and maintenance.
Essential Functions:
- Work in an innovative environment, on significantly diverse assignments, and in 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
- Architect and develop embedded mission systems software applications on a real time operating system
- Be a part of Agile Scrum teams to develop software products for multiple software baselines
Succeed
The individual we seek will be self-motivated, proactive, goal-oriented to help us grow our services, become even better at what we do and will possess the following qualifications.
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering with 5 years of software engineering experience; OR a master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering with 3 years of software engineering experience.
- Recent Demonstrated Professional Experience developing software and scripts in C, Object Oriented C++ AND/OR Python for Safety-Critical applications/Systems.
- Familiar with architecting, Designing, Modeling (Rhapsody or Cameo), Implementing, Maintaining, integrating, Debugging, Verifying and Qualifying Safety-Critical Embedded Real Time Software written in OO C++ running on Real-Time Operating Systems such as: VxWorks, Integrity, AND/OR Real Time Embedded Linux.
- Familiar with Static & Dynamic Code Analysis Tools and Fuzzing Tools such as: Coverity, Fortify, AND/OR SonarQube.
- Familiar with Software Change Control, Change Management, and CI/CD tools such as: Atlassian tool suite, GitHub, GitLab, AND/OR Jenkins.
- Active DoD Secret level clearance OR Top Secret (in-scope), with the ability to obtain (and maintain) special program access (PAR) prior to commencement of employment.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Strong understanding of C and C++ languages including templates, memory storage, and compiler/linker.
- Ability to collaborate with systems engineers, hardware designers and integration/test engineers to develop and maintain complex software systems.
- Differentiating characteristics include demonstrated leadership, teamwork capabilities, and strong interpersonal communication skills.
- Recent Demonstrated Professional Experience with Agile Software Development, object-oriented architectures, designs, programming, debugging, and hardware-software integration and testing.
- Recent Demonstrated Professional Experience with Software Change Control, Change Management, Code Quality, Static Analysis, and CI/CD tools such as: Atlassian tool suite, Jira, GitHub, GitLab, SonarQube, Coverity, AND/OR Jenkins.
- Recent Demonstrated Professional Experience with DOORs AND/OR Software Requirement Specification Testing using Simulators, automated scripting languages such as Python, MATLAB, JavaScript, AND/OR Bash.
- Recent Demonstrated Professional Experience with Static & Dynamic Code Analysis Tools and Fuzzing Tools such as: Coverity, Fortify, AND/OR SonarQube.
- Recent Demonstrated Professional Experience architecting, Designing, Modeling (Rhapsody or Cameo), Implementing, Maintaining, integrating, Debugging, Verifying and Qualifying Safety-Critical Embedded Real Time Software written in OO C++ software running on Real-Time Operating systems such as: VxWorks, Integrity, AND/OR Real Time Embedded Linux.
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Job Details
- Category
- Software
- Employment Type
- Full time
- Location
- Melbourne; United States-Oklahoma-Oklahoma City, FL, United States
- Posted
- Sep 22, 2025, 08:00 PM
- Listed
- Jan 17, 2026, 12:53 PM
- Last updated
- Jan 17, 2026, 02:27 PM
- Compensation
- $95,300 - $142,900 per year
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