Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Sep 30, 2026. First seen by Alion on Sep 30, 2026. Northrop Grumman scores A on the Alion truth index.
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 Sector has an opening for a Software Engineer to join Global Surveillance Division supporting the team of qualified, diverse individuals. This position will be located onsite in Melbourne, Florida.
Responsibilities will include deploying, automating, maintaining, troubleshooting, and improving the systems and software infrastructure running smoothly. The role requires you to have hands on technical experience and a can-do approach towards environment automation and management along with continuous improvements. You will be a team member working in agile development process. You will be responsible for the design and implementation of application builds, releases, deployment along with configuration activities. Your responsibilities will include working with internal business partners to gather requirements, prototyping, and architecting complex solutions supporting the building and test plan execution, performing quality reviews, and triaging and fixing operational issues.
The ideal candidate will have the ability to take ownership of hard problems and drive to a solution, while working in a team environment and provide leadership for its implementation. It is critical that you understand the software development life cycle and have an in-depth knowledge of automated testing to facilitate and analyze large data sets. The Software Engineer will participate in the full life cycle of software development, to include requirements development, modeling and design, application development, unit to CSCI testing, integration, formal system testing, release, installation, and maintenance. The Software Engineer will apply technical expertise in solving complex integrations problems.
Essential Functions:
- Full lifecycle design, implementation, and unit testing of software.
- Apply extensive technical expertise and has full knowledge of other related disciplines.
- Provide technical solutions to a wide range of complex difficult problems that are imaginative, thorough, practicable, and consistent with programs objectives.
- In depth understanding and wide application of technical principle, theories, and concepts in the field listed under the basic qualifications.
- Design, develop, document, test and debug applications software and systems that contain logical and mathematical solutions.
- Work with various team members to integrate functionality with other software components.
- Provide technical solutions to a wide range of complex difficult problems.
- Supporting the gathering and reporting software metrics.
- Follow program software best practices.
- Develop software products within all phases of the software lifecycle.
Basic Qualifications:
- (Engineer Software) Bachelor’s degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) discipline from an accredited university and 2 or more years of experience in software engineering OR a Master’s degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) discipline and 0 or more years of experience in software engineering.
- Development experience with C/C++ or other OOP languages.
- Experience developing software in a Linux and Windows environment.
- Experience with debugging software in both desktop and target environments.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills and strong interpersonal skills.
- Experience with Agile software development.
- Experience with configuration management using industry standard tools and processes.
- Must have the ability to obtain and maintain a US Government clearance and Special Access Program (SAP) within a reasonable amount of time as determined by business needs (interim secret clearance required to start)
Preferred Qualifications:
- Familiarity with the Atlassian tool suite with add-ons like Git and Confluence.
- Familiarity with the Agile software development process.
- Full software development life cycle experience.
- Rhapsody and/or Cameo UML Modeling experience.
- Experience with formal software test and Weapon System evaluations.
- A current in scope and active Secret or higher clearance.
- Currently cleared to a special program access.

