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Northrop Grumman is hiring a Principal/ Sr Principal Electronics Engineer - SW Infrastructure Lead in San Diego, CA. It is a full-time role in Software & IT, asking for at least 5 years of experience, first listed on November 12. The advertised pay is $114,000–$171,000 a year. The description mentions SAP. Northrop Grumman has 149 other openings in the US, 5 of them in San Diego, CA. Across all employers on USA Jobs 24 there are 85 Software & IT openings in San Diego, CA today; the typical one asks for 7 years and advertises about $194,000 a year at the midpoint.
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Northrop Grumman advertises $114,000 to $171,000 a year, a midpoint of $142,500 a year. Where an offer lands in a range usually depends on experience and on the exact location. That is lower than about 90% of the 1,322 software & IT jobs in California that publish a yearly rate on USA Jobs 24, where the typical midpoint is $210,000 a year. To see roughly what this leaves after federal and California tax, try our take-home pay calculator.
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About hiring at Northrop Grumman
Northrop Grumman has 150 openings on USA Jobs 24 today across 20 states. Most are in software & IT (72), operations (14) and engineering & mfg (12). The biggest locations are Redondo Beach, CA (17), Roy, UT (14) and Baltimore, MD (11). 2% of them are remote, 12% are open to entry-level candidates and 97% show pay. We collect Northrop Grumman's jobs every day straight from its own careers system (Workday), never from job boards or agencies.
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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 is looking to add a Principal/ Sr Principal Electronics Engineer - SW Infrastructure Lead - to join the team of qualified individuals on our Avionics Team. This role is located onsite in San Diego (Rancho Bernardo), CA.
The selected candidate will be required to work full-time, on-site at our facility. There is NO remote / hybrid / telework available for this position.Travel up to 25% may be required.
The successful candidate will be a results-oriented technical project lead and infrastructure manager covering projects across network architecture, infrastructure, and data storage, providing guidance and leadership to enable the buildup of a scalable infrastructure to support robust communication across assets, centralized capabilities, and data dissemination. This person needs to bring a collaborative leadership style, and the ability to drive technical maturation/evolution across a portfolio of programs, contracts, and Operating Units that will often have varied and/or conflicting needs. The successful leader acts as the Subject Matter Expert for network architecture and the buildup of our infrastructure and capabilities.
The SW Infrastructures Lead will rely on a significant breadth and depth of technical and leadership experience may include:
- Attend SRB to represent infra where DRs impact infrastructure
- Run separate infrastructure board similar to SRB (role would need to establish that process)
- Define when build is ready
- Ensure documentation is released
- Ensure build is tested
- Initially establish process for releasing infra builds
- Update BOMs (Bill of Materials)
- Ensure all Software is available on system (GIN)
- Build hard drive\media
- Complete paperwork to push build to various classified networks
- Work with cyber on SW scan approvals
- Ensure software support Bill of Materials released
- Ensure cyber test is run on quarterly release to ensure improved cyber posture
- Run Readiness Reviews (role would need to establish that process)
- Technical leadership over the buildup of our network infrastructure and directly leads to the technical execution of network/infrastructure development and implementation.
- Ownership over the development of all network documentation, including high-level and detailed design, topology depictions, port and protocol documentation, security boundaries/classifications, IP and tunneling, etc.
- Leads the development, decomposition and documentation of system-segment-software/hardware requirements
- Ensures the right solutions are being developed, via collaboration with internal stakeholders and end-user/customer counterparts.
- Serves as a PoC for network/infrastructure reach-back.
- Provides technical leadership over suppliers/subcontractors, as needed.
- Supports risk mitigation and opportunity generation.
Basic Qualifications
- Principal: Bachelor’s degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) discipline from an accredited university and 5 years of related professional/military experience in Engineering, or Master's degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) discipline from an accredited university and 3 years of related professional/military experience.
- Sr. Principal: Bachelor’s degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) discipline from an accredited university and 8 years of related professional/military experience in Engineering, or Master's degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) discipline from an accredited university and 6 years of related professional/military experience
- Experience being a technical project lead and/or Product Owner accountable to the outcome of the solutions developed
- Understanding of network architecture and topologies, protocols, IP and tunneling, and security boundaries.
- Experience in documentation, including MBSE, change packages, design depictions and requirements
- Ability to stay abreast of developments at the intersection of data science and technology
- Experience engaging cross-functional teams
- Must have an active US Government Top-Secret Clearance (with a background investigation within the past 6 years or enrolled into Continuous Evaluation).
- Ability to obtain and maintain US Government SCI clearance
- Must have the ability to obtain and maintain Special Access Program (SAP) clearance, within a reasonable amount of time as determined by business needs.
Preferred Qualifications
- Master's Degree, or other relevant, advanced, technical degree
- Cloud-based architecture, and virtual network expertise
- Skilled at defining, motivating and driving change across multiple contracts/business areas with a dual focus on supporting the end-user mission and ensuring business value
- Advanced technical knowledge of network architecture and design concepts
- Self-directed leader
- Excellent communication and presentation development skills
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