**Requisition ID: R10180178**

+ **Category:** Engineering

+ **Location:** Melbourne, Florida, United States of America

+ **Clearance Type:** Secret

+ **Telecommute:** No- Teleworking not available for this position

+ **Shift:** 1st Shift (United States of America)

+ **Travel Required:** Yes, 10% of the Time

+ **Relocation Assistance:** Relocation assistance may be available

+ **Positions Available:** 4

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.

**This position is currently contingent on program award and associated program award funding. Start dates are determined after funding confirmation.**

**Please note: Only external candidates and NG employees who are not currently in AS Engineering will be considered under this requisition.**

Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems has an opening for a **Software Engineer/Principal Software Engineer – DevOps** to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals within our organization. This position is located in **Melbourne, FL**

In this role, you will be working with the latest technology to modernize software product production with DevOps - continuous build, continuous integration, continuous test, continuous cyber, continuous deployment, and continuous metrics on aerospace programs. Specifically, you will be responsible for the design, architecture, development, deployment, and operation of modern DevOps software factory. You will work with multi-disciplinary teams, such as with Systems Engineering, Real-time & Embedded Software, Test Automation, DevOps, and Systems Test in an Agile software development environment.

**Responsibilities include, but not limited to:**

+ The selected candidate will join a customer-focused multi-discipline development team committed to providing cutting-edge requirement-based Lab Models & Simulations (LMS).

+ Participate in software (SW) development life cycle including project planning, requirements/analysis, design, implementation, testing, deployment, and/or maintenance of LMS.

+ Participate in Agile Scrums to develop state-of-the-art software, continuously improving & releasing baselines.

+ Work with team to add your technical content to LMS presentations for internal and external (customer) reviews.

+ Evaluate & report on advancements in models & simulations to ensure NGC is and remains the leader in the rapidly evolving simulation software market (note: reward & recognition for patents).

**Basic Qualifications:**

+ **Software Engineer** - Bachelor of Science degree in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) discipline from an accredited university with 2 years of experience in engineering; OR Master of Science degree in STEM with 0 years of experience.

+ **Principal Software Engineer** - Bachelor of Science degree in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) discipline from an accredited university with 5 years of experience in engineering; OR Master of Science degree in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) discipline from an accredited university with 3 years of experience in engineering; OR PhD in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) discipline from an accredited university OR PhD in a Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics discipline from an accredited university with 1 year of experience in engineering.

+ Your ability to obtain and/or transfer and maintain the final adjudicated government Secret clearance, and any program access(es) required for the position within a reasonable period of time, as determined by the company.

+ Experience with any the following tools: Bamboo, Bitbucket, Confluence, Coverity, Crucible, Fortify, Gitlab, Jenkins, JIRA, Nexus, or SonarQube.

+ Experience with at least one (1) of the following programming or scripting languages: C++, C#, Java, and/or LabView.

**Preferred Qualifications:**

+ Experience with these types of simulation models Monte Carlo, Agent-based, Discrete events, or System dynamics.

+ Experience with the following: working with digital signal processing, complex valued signal data, or analytical modeling approaches using MATLAB.

+ Familiar with Modeling, Simulation, Experimentation, and Analysis (MSE&A) of advanced systems using object‑oriented design, advanced data structures, and/or test-driven development.

+ Participated in the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC); project planning, requirements/analysis, design, implementation, testing, deployment, and/or maintenance.

+ Ability to prepare technical presentations using approved template for internal and external (customer) reviews.

+ Ability to brief technical content to LMS team, program management, customer, and/or other stakeholders.

**Salary Range:** $77,200 - $115,800

**Salary Range 2:** $95,300 - $142,900

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.

Employees may be eligible for 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 committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action 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/AA and Pay Transparency statement, please visit. U.S. Citizenship is required for all positions with a government clearance and certain other restricted positions.