Northrop Grumman is looking for a Staff Software Engineer (Software Architect) to join their team in Woodland Hills, CA, to be a part of their Enterprise-wide digital transformation and provide technical leadership for a team of software engineers to modernize and productionize a research codebase.
Requirements
- Experience working in C/C++
- Demonstrated experience with open software/system architecture solutions
- Demonstrated ability to analyze system requirements to derive software design and performance requirements
- Proven ability to design and code new software, as well as modify existing software to add new features
- Experience with Git-based or other software configuration management tools
- Experience with model-based system engineering tools (Cameo)
- Experience with containers (Docker, Kubernetes)
Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership for a team of software engineers
- Architect/rearchitect and develop software utilizing C/C++ to modernize and productionize a research codebase
- Identify and define software infrastructure to support CI/CD, software metrics collection, and MLOps
- Design software-systems, applications, and architectures that implement techniques to support achieving increased modularity, scalability, and reliability, while also maintaining precision, accuracy, and speed to meet performance requirements
- Ensure industry software engineering best practices and standards are applied and maintained
- Apply your research and development skills to architect real-world products and capabilities well beyond the purely academic or theoretical
- Present your ideas to internal and external groups; lead proposal activities; and represent Northrop Grumman at technical conferences and working groups
Other
- Bachelor's degree in a STEM discipline with 12+ years of relative experience; Master's degree in a STEM discipline with 10+ years of relative experience; PhD + 8 years of relative experience
- Active Top Secret security clearance
- Ability to meet customer-specific security screening requirements within a timeframe set forth by management
- Willingness and ability to work onsite full-time
- Effective communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with diverse stakeholders
