Principal Automation/Robotics Software Engineer (with Secret Clearance)
Posted on: 6 Feb 2021
Palmdale, CA
Job Description
Description
Climb to new heights on your journey when you start Defining Possible with Northrop Grumman. Enjoy a purposeful careerin aeronautics that is crucial to the way we connect and protect our world across land, sea, and air. Bring your experience and take advantage of this opportunity to discover how you can start to push past possible and achieve your goals today. Enjoy a diverse, collaborative environment with professionals across the nation ready to help launch your career.
Aeronautics Systems sector is seeking an Automation/Robotics Software Engineer to join our team of qualified, diverseindividuals. This position is located in Palmdale, CA.
The Northrop Grumman Tooling team specializing in automated tooling as well as hard tooling has an immediate need for a Automation/Robotics Software Engineer. As an integral part of the team, the successful candidate will be an active participant in the design, procurement, fabrication, assembly, integration, startup, and commissioning of very large scale automated aerospace assembly systems. The candidate will support custom software for the automated assembly systems with primary focus on trouble shooting and finding creative solutions in a production environment, control system development, including microprocessor-based servo motion control, analog and digital sensors, network communications, and graphical user interfaces (GUI).
The Robotics Software Engineer is the key contributor as they will create and maintain already installed systems, deploy requested changes or upgrades, and work directly with the Production to troubleshoot and solve critical system problems in a timely manner.
Qualification
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor rsquo;s Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or Computer Science and 5+ years rsquo; of experience with full software life cycle, including specification, design, implementation, integration, and debugging (3 years rsquo; experience with a Masters)
- Knowledge of Siemens and/or AllenBradley (AB)
- Minimum 2 years rsquo; experience programming in C/C++
- Familiarity with a structured coding environment for automated assembly systems and participation which involve software and hardware (i.e. robotics)
- Hands-on experience with troubleshooting issues and finding solutions in a production environment
- Ability to program applications to run on the Windows Operating System.
- Familiar with Microsoft Office, development for Graphical user interfaces (GUI), and Network administration and TCP/IP configuration
- Strong written communication skills, excellent troubleshooting and debugging skills; the ability to learn and apply new concepts quickly and be a team player
- DOD Secret Clearance with investigation within the past 5 years
Preferred Qualifications:
bull; Experience in automated aerospace or manufacturing assembly systems
bull; Experience in Automated Drilling programing with Siemens
Northrop Grumman
Falls Church, VA
Northrop Grumman Corporation, a security company, provides products in the areas of autonomous systems, cyber, space, strikes, and logistics and modernizations in the United States, the Asia Pacific, and internationally. The company operates through four segments: Aerospace Systems, Innovation Systems, Mission Systems, and Technology Services. The Aerospace Systems segment designs, develops, integrates, and produces manned aircrafts, autonomous systems, spacecraft systems, high-energy laser systems, microelectronics, and other systems and sub-systems for use in the areas of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, strike operations, communications, earth observations, and space science.
The Innovation Systems segment designs, develops, integrates, and produces flights, armaments, and space systems. It offers launch vehicles and related propulsion systems; missile products and defense electronics; precision weapons, armament systems, and ammunitions; satellites and associated space components and services; and advanced aerospace structures. The Mission Systems segment offers products and services that include C4ISR systems; radar, electro-optical/infrared (EO/IR), and acoustic sensors; electronic warfare systems; cyber solutions; space systems; intelligence processing systems; air and missile defense integration systems; navigation systems; and shipboard missiles and encapsulated payload launch systems.
The Technology Services segment provides logistic solutions that supports the full life cycle of platforms and systems. Its products and services include software and system sustainment; modernization of platform and associated subsystems; advanced training solutions; and integrated logistics support. Northrop Grumman Corporation was founded in 1939 and is based in Falls Church, Virginia.
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IndustryAerospace and Defense
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No. of Employees85,000
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Jobs Posted6018
