Principal / Senior Principal Embedded Software Engineer - AI / ML

US CITIZENSHIP REQUIRED FOR THIS POSITION: Yes

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE TYPE: SAP

TRAVEL: Yes, 10% of the Time

Description

Join Northrop Grumman on our continued mission to push the boundaries of possible across land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace. Enjoy a culture where your voice is valued and start contributing to our team of passionate professionals providing real-life solutions to our world's biggest challenges. We take pride in creating purposeful work and allowing our employees to grow and achieve their goals every day by Defining Possible. With our competitive pay and comprehensive benefits, we have the right opportunities to fit your life and launch your career today.

Northrop Grumman Mission Systems Sector (NGMS) is a leading global provider of secure software-defined, hardware enabled mission systems. Our company is pioneering capabilities in a wide variety of sectors that keep our nation and our allies safe from undersea to space and cyberspace.

NGMS is seeking Principal and Senior Principal Embedded Software Engineers with AI / ML experience to develop machine learning and complex signal processing algorithms. The individual should be capable of playing a key role in a variety of machine learning and algorithm development for next-generation applications; in radar, communications, and electronic warfare.

Responsibilities may include:

• Participate in the development of innovative detection, estimation and classification algorithms and techniques for advanced applications.
• Develop signal processing algorithms, waveforms and techniques that exploit and optimize radar, radio and EW architectures that take advantage of advanced radio frequency and processing technology.
• Perform concept and performance trade studies and demonstrate developed capabilities for streaming data applications.
• Develop prototype, and test sensor models and signal processing algorithms in detailed high-fidelity simulations written in C/C++, and MATLAB.
• Operate with broad direction and minimal supervision.
• Interact with customers and development partners.

This requisition may be filled at a higher grad based on qualifications below.

Basic Qualifications for a Principal Level:

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or other STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) discipline
• 5+ years of software engineering experience (3 years for MS degree, 0 years for PhD)
• Candidates must have an ACTIVE US DoD Security Clearance at the Secret Level (or higher) with the ability to obtain and maintain a SAP
• A minimum of 2 years of experience with digital signal processing, probability theory, stochastic signal processing and machine learning
• Knowledge and experience working with programming languages (such as C/C++, MATLAB, Python, Simulink)
• Prior Experience with developing and prototyping algorithms.

Basic Qualifications for a Senior Principal Level:

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or other STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) discipline
• 9+ years of software engineering experience (7 years for MS degree, 4 years for PhD)
• Candidates must have an ACTIVE US DoD Security Clearance at the Secret Level (or higher) with the ability to obtain and maintain a SAP
• A minimum of 5 years of experience with digital signal processing, probability theory, stochastic signal processing and machine learning
• Knowledge and experience working with programming languages (such as C/C++, MATLAB, Python, Simulink)
• Prior Experience with developing and prototyping algorithms.

Preferred Qualifications for Both Levels:

• Electronic Warfare systems.
• Radar, waveforms, radar signal processing.
• Communication Simulators, Communications Jamming.
• Wireless communication systems.
• Knowledge of Kalman filtering, CNN, Random Forest, Support Vector Machine, Adaptive Neural Networks, Belief Propagation, other machine learning algorithms.

Salary Range: $117,200.00 - $175,800.00Salary Range 2: $145,200.00 - $217,800.00

Employees may be eligible for a discretionary bonus in addition to basepay. 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/orpersonal business.

The health and safety of our employees and their families is a top priority. The company encourages employees to remain up-to-date on their COVID-19 vaccinations. U.S. Northrop Grumman employees may be required, in the future, to be vaccinated or have an approved disability/medical or religious accommodation, pursuant to future court decisions and/or government action on the currently stayed federal contractor vaccine mandate under Executive Order 14042 https://www.saferfederalworkforce.gov/contractors/.

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 http://www.northropgrumman.com/EEO. U.S. Citizenship is required for most positions.