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Senior Staff Engineer Systems Software Architect - Microelectronics Design and Applications

Northrop Grumman

$171,000 - $282,200
Sep 20, 2025
Halethorpe, MD, USA • Annapolis Junction, MD, USA • Beavercreek, OH, USA
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Northrop Grumman is seeking a Staff Engineer Systems SW Architect to lead systems engineers in the development of new technologies to support innovative Microelectronics Design and Applications (MDA) team in support of emerging supercomputing technologies.

Requirements

  • Experience with software programming languages including C, C++, and Python.
  • Experience developing in a Linux and/or Windows environment.
  • 5 years' experience in driving ASIC architecture decisions from a software point of view.
  • Experience with interaction between hardware and software for different types of standard hardware blocks, CPU and accelerators.
  • Experience with embedded systems debugging and system analysis tools (e.g. JTAG emulators, remote GDB servers, USB or benchtop logic analyzers).
  • Familiarity with common source control tools (Git, Subversion, etc.).
  • Experience with embedded communications protocols such as SPI, I2C, and RS-232.

Responsibilities

  • Define systems and demonstrations that combine technologies created by other MDA efforts into products that solve critical customer mission needs.
  • Drive the development and integration plan leading to the successful demonstration of cutting-edge capabilities.
  • Develop system level roadmaps capturing the advancement of MDA and other relevant technologies.
  • Work with the customer, partner, and supplier communities to develop the system conceptual systems leading to major program milestones / reviews (e.g., SRR, SFR, SDR, PDR, CDR).
  • Capture customer needs translating them into System-Level requirements and Technical Performance Measures (TPMs).
  • Support functional analysis and systems trade studies for technical solutions with respect to concept, design, fabrication, test, installation, operation, and maintenance.
  • Developing and implementing test plans to verify that each embedded software function performs as intended

Other

  • Bachelor's Degree or higher in a STEM discipline (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) with 14 years of related experience, or 12 years with a MS Degree, or 10 years with a PhD.
  • Candidate must be a US Citizen
  • Clearance: Candidate must have the ability to obtain and maintain a US DoD TS/SCI clearance with Poly per business requirements
  • Travel: Yes, 10% of the Time
  • Relocation assistance may be available