Staff Engineer Software - Application (Multiple Locations)

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE TYPE: Top Secret

TRAVEL: Yes, 10% of the Time

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 Staff Software Engineer - Application to lead a variety of projects in a new development portfolio. This role can be located in San Diego CA, El Segundo CA or Oklahoma City OK .

In this role you will lead the software engineering team with responsibilities that include managing design, architecture, development, and administration of embedded and real time systems. You will work with multi-disciplinary teams, such as with Systems Engineering, Cloud & Application, Test Automation, DevSecOps and Systems Test, in an Agile software development environment.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Leads multi-disciplinary team or software, hardware, and systems engineers, to develop and deliver solutions that meet quality, cost and schedule objectives.
• Supports Program Management in new business opportunities to include: capture, SOW shaping, technology evaluations, authoring white papers, trade studies, process improvement, and bidding & proposals.
• Manage the baselining of new software efforts to include labor & non-labor planning & earned value management

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s Degree in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) discipline and 12 years of related engineering experience; OR a Master’s degree in a STEM discipline and 10 years of related engineering experience; OR a PhD in a STEM discipline and 8 years of related engineering experience.
• Experience leading software teams with at least 10+ software engineers
• Experience w/ Atlassian Tool Suite; Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, Trello, Opsgenie
• Active DoD Top Secret Security Clearance
• Ability to obtain and maintain Special Access Program (SAP) access

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Current Special Access Program access
• Java Software Development
• Functional Management Experience
• Experience serving as a Control Account Manager (CAM)
• Current CAM certification
• Experience serving as a proposal estimator
• Significant experience writing technical documents

Primary Level Salary Range: $144,900.00 - $265,600.00

The above salary range represents a general guideline; however, Northrop Grumman considers a number of factors when determining base salary offers such as the scope and responsibilities of the position and the candidate's experience, education, skills and current market conditions.

Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and 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 application period for the job is estimated to be 20 days from the job posting date. However, this timeline may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates.

Northrop Grumman is an Equal Opportunity 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 and pay transparency statement, please visit U.S. Citizenship is required for all positions with a government clearance and certain other restricted positions.