Senior Principal Engineer Software - Simulation (Oklahoma City or Melbourne FL)
AI summary of the role
Design, develop, integrate, and test simulation software for flight training and mission environments within Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems.
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What you’ll do
- Design, develop, integrate, and test software for end-user customers and businesses, focusing on flight simulation.
- Architect and develop applications in a simulated training environment.
- Participate in the full software development life cycle including requirements, design, implementation, qualification, and delivery.
- Work with multi-disciplinary teams (Systems Engineering, Cloud & Application, Test Automation, DevSecOps, Systems Test) in an Agile environment.
What you’ll bring
- Bachelor's degree in STEM with 8 years of related engineering experience (or Master's with 6 years, or PhD with 4 years).
- Experience with full SDLC including design, development, integration, testing, and deployment.
- Proficiency in at least one of C, C++, or Python.
- Experience with two or more of: Jira, Crucible, Bitbucket, Subversion, Bamboo, Jenkins, Sonarqube, Fortify, or Coverity.
Technologies
C · C++ · Python · Jira · Crucible · Bitbucket · Subversion · Bamboo · Jenkins · Sonarqube · Fortify · Coverity
About Northrop Grumman
Builds aircraft, missiles, space systems, sensors, cyber and microelectronics for U.S. and allied national-security customers, with strengths in stealth, nuclear modernization and classified space.
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Source and classification
Internal deployment & tooling · Evidence for this classification:
are not only part of history, they're making history. Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems has an opening for a Senior Principal Engineer Software - Simulation to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals within our Software organization. This position can be located in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma or Melbourne, Florida. In this role you will design, develop, integrate and test software for our end-user customers and businesses. Specifically, you will be responsible for the design, architecture, application development, and flight simulation. You will work with multi-disciplinary teams, such as with Systems Engineering, Cloud & Application, Test Automation, DevSecOps and Systems Test, in an Agile software development environment. Our simulation software is critical to the current and future company projects. You will analyze system capabilities to resolve problems on program intent,
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