Staff Engineer

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be availableCLEARANCE TYPE: PolygraphTRAVEL: Yes, 10% of the TimeDescriptionAt 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.

Today's dynamic global security threats require solutions both big and small – solutions living within the Northrop Grumman Microelectronics Center (NGMC). Boasting state-of-the-art design capabilities, multiple processing nodes, electrical testing, environmental and QCI screening, and failure analysis, the NGMC is a leader in designing, fabricating, packaging, and delivering discriminating microelectronics to the military, aerospace, and commercial markets.  For more than 70 years, we have been offering a wide range of trusted foundry and semiconductor services that deliver high performing and reliable microelectronics. Our wide breadth of technologies and capabilities allows us to provide our customers with unique "More than Moore" solutions. Microelectronics | Northrop Grumman

One of our most challenging new fields is Microelectronics Design and Applications (MDA), which combines the unique properties of superconductivity and quantum mechanics to develop radical new energy-efficient computing systems. MDA is seeking a Staff Engineer Systems FW Architect with demonstrated ability to lead systems engineers in the development of new technologies to support our innovative MDA team in support of emerging supercomputing technologies.

What You'll Get to Do:

• 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

• Analyzing system requirements and developing an implementation plan complete with functional definitions and reasoned allocation of those functions between hardware and software components

• Providing systems test and integration support in the implementation of new systems or new baseline deployments

• Support system technical performance measurement definition and tracking.

• Collaborate cross-functionally to ensure system/software designs align with system requirements.

• Assist with the generation of well-defined and executable system, subsystem, and software requirements documents, interface documents, and test and verification documents.

This position will serve on-site in Linthicum / Annapolis Junction, MD or Beavercreek, OH.

Basic Qualifications for Staff Engineer Systems FW Architect:

• Bachelor's Degree or higher in a STEM discipline (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) with 12 years of related experience, or 10 years with a MS Degree, or 8 years with a PhD.
• Experience with software programming languages including C, C++, and Python.
• Experience developing in a Linux and/or Windows environment.
• 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.).
• Candidate must be a US Citizen
• Clearance: Candidate must currently have a DOD Secret Clearance or higher and must be able to obtain and maintain a US Government security clearance per customer requirements.

Preferred Qualifications for Staff Engineer Systems FW Architect:

• Current active TS/SCI clearance with Poly
• 5 years' experience in driving ASIC/CMOS architecture decisions from a software point of view.
• Advanced degree in computer science, computer engineering or related field.
• Experience in architecting a software roadmap and implementation plan
• Experience with embedded communications protocols such as SPI, I2C, and RS-232.
• Experience with the agile software development lifecycle.
• Experience with embedded systems development environments such as Xilinx Vitis and the GNU compiler collection (GCC) and related tools.
• Experience with test automation and instrument control.
• Experience with embedded real-time operating systems (RTOS) such as FreeRTOS, VxWorks, or Linux with PREEMPT_RT.
• Experience with deriving software requirements.
• Experience with creating design artifacts (e.g. UML) and design patterns.
• Familiarity with Confluence, JIRA, Bitbucket and Gitlab.

Primary Level Salary Range: $155, $256,400.00The 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.

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