software developer

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Northrop Grumman Space Systems Multi-Domain Operations Missile Defense Integration Business Unit (BU) has an exciting career opportunity for a Software Engineer supporting an Internal Research and Development (IRAD) to join our team of qualified diverse and innovative individuals located in Huntsville AL.

As a software developer on an Internal Research and Development (IRAD) team. You will work in a collaborative environment to understand system requirements create and implement new capabilities and algorithms. Many of the algorithms and capabilities implemented by the team will be mathematics and physics intensive complex solutions that will be highly critical to the system addition to software development you will also be expected to support reviews of requirements and test cases that are developed for the software capability.



Basic Qualifications:

Bachelors degree in STEM related field and 5 Years with Bachelors in Science; 3 Years with Masters; 1 Year with PhD.

Recent and extensive Experience Developing Software in C or Java

Quick to learn and absorb new concepts and information

Recent MATLAB and or Python Experience


Unix/Linux Operating System Experience

Must be able to support an in-person / closed-area work environment

Preferred Qualifications:

Highly experienced with Linux scripting and operations

Experience with automated software requirements testing and analysis

Experience with the battle management and or fire control systems

Experience with containerization technologies (e.g. Docker Kubernetes) and container orchestration.

Experience with Behavior Driven Development (BDD) using tools like Gherkin and Cucumber for automated acceptance testing

Experience with Static & Dynamic Code Analysis Tools and Fuzzing Tools such as: Coverity Fortify AND/OR SonarQube

Experience developing software in an Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) environment.

Experience with CI/CD containers and pipelines.

Experience with Software Change Control Change Management Code Quality Static Analysis and CI/CD tools such as: Atlassian tool suite Jira GitHub GitLab SonarQube Coverity and Jenkins.

Very solid background in math and physics

Advanced degree in Mathematics or Physics or Computer Science