Engineer Software Quality at Northrop Grumman will collaborate with program and engineering management to establish and monitor quality standards, witness software qualification and system acceptance tests, and ensure compliance with contractual and AS9100D requirements. The role involves assessing supplier capability, performing process evaluation audits, reviewing engineering artifacts for consistency, and tracking software anomalies to closure.… Responsibilities include metrics collection and reporting, traceability assessment from source code to system requirements, and corrective action oversight. The candidate must hold or obtain a DoD Secret clearance and demonstrate knowledge of Agile processes, C#/C++, Python, process monitoring, and software code review.
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Senior embedded software engineer responsible for designing, developing, and testing embedded software for safety-critical systems. The role involves preparing design specifications, conducting module and integration testing using Hardware-in-the-Loop simulation, performing code reviews, and mentoring junior staff.… Requires 10+ years of embedded software development experience in C, proficiency with development tools (GitLab, Jira, LDRA, Arm Development Studio, Visual Studio, GDB), and demonstrated expertise in safety-critical environments (DO-178, ISO 26262). Will collaborate with customers and engineering teams, with occasional onsite presence required in Wilmington, NC.
Senior Software QA Engineer to own system testing for Firestorm's avionics platform—embedded Linux and RTOS flight computers, board support packages, device drivers, and safety-critical data paths. You will design and execute risk-based test strategies (feature/bring-up, exploratory, regression, acceptance) and build automation across HIL/SIL rigs exercising real buses (CAN/CAN-FD, UART, SPI, I²C, Ethernet) and links (MAVLink, Tactical Data Links) under fault conditions.… You will instrument diagnostics, triage defects, and harden robustness for timing, jitter, packet loss, brownouts, and recovery paths before Flight Test. This is a full-time onsite role in San Diego requiring hands-on bench work with flight computers, power systems, radios, and sensors.