At Northrop Grumman, our employees have incredible opportunities to work on revolutionary systems in air and space that impact people’s lives around the world today, and for generations to come. Our work preserves freedom, democracy, and advances human discovery and our understanding of the universe. We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage and a pioneering spirit to join forces to invent the future and have a lot of 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 has an opening for a Principal Software Integration Engineer to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals. This position can be located in Huntsville, AL or Roy, UT.

Core Technical Skills:

• Python proficiency – writing clean, testable code; familiarity with virtual environments, packaging, and type hints

• Embedded/hardware interfaces – UART, SPI, I²C, CAN, USB, JTAG, GPIO, PWM, ADC/DAC

• Real-time operating systems (RTOS) or bare-metal development basics

• Hardware description/validation tools – Oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, multimeters, power supplies, test rigs

• Firmware build systems – Make, CMake for cross-compilation

• Version control – Git (branching, sub-modules, pull-request workflow)

• CI/CD for embedded – Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI with hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) runners

• Software-Hardware Integration

• Designing and implementing drivers/APIs that expose hardware functionality to Python

• Using communication protocols (Modbus, MQTT, OPC?UA) to bridge software services and devices

• Managing bootloaders, firmware upgrades, and configuration flashing

Testing & Validation

• Unit/Component testing – pytest, unittest, hypothesis for pure-Python modules

• Hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing – automated scripts that program devices, run stimulus, capture response, and assert results

• System-level testing – Robot Framework, TestStand, or custom Python harnesses that coordinate multiple subsystems

• Automated measurement – pyvisa / pyserial to drive test equipment and log data

• Coverage & static analysis – coverage.py, pylint, mypy

DevOps & Deployment

• Containerizing test environments (Docker) for simulation and host-side tools

• Managing artifact repositories for firmware binaries (Artifactory, Nexus)

• Using over-the-air (OTA) or in-field update pipelines

• Methodologies

• Agile/Scrum or Kanban for cross-functional teams

• Familiarity with the V-model or ISO:26262-style verification flows in safety-critical domains

• Soft Skills

• Strong analytical debugging – ability to trace issues from software logs down to signal integrity on a PCB

• Clear communication with electrical engineers, firmware developers, and QA testers

• Documentation discipline – hardware interface specs, test procedures, and release notes

Basic Qualifications:

Principal Software Integration Engineer: 5 Years with Bachelor’s in related field of study, 3 Years with Masters, 01 Years with PhD or 04 additional years in lieu of a degree.

• US Citizenship with Active DoD Secret clearance with a reinvestigation date occurring in the last 6 years.

• Ability to obtain Special Program Access (SAP).

• Ability to plan, execute, and manage the technical scope, and support leadership planning.

• Experience with Agile and working in a cross-function Scrum team.

• Working knowledge of Object-Oriented Analysis and Design principles

• Experience developing complex software solutions using C++

• Experience programming in scripting languages (Python, Bash).

• Familiarity with Model-Based Systems Engineering languages (SysML/UML) and concepts

• Experience Interpreting complex algorithms and requirements for implementation