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RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE TYPE: SCI

TRAVEL: Yes, 10% of the Time

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.

Today’s dynamic global security threats require solutions both big and small – solutions living within the Northrop Grumman Microelectronics Center (NGMC). Boasting state-of-the-art design capabilities, multiple processing nodes, electrical testing, environmental and QCI screening, and failure analysis, the NGMC is a leader in designing, fabricating, packaging, and delivering discriminating microelectronics to the military, aerospace, and commercial markets. For more than 70 years, we have been offering a wide range of trusted foundry and semiconductor services that deliver high performing and reliable microelectronics. Our wide breadth of technologies and capabilities allows us to provide our customers with unique “More than Moore” solutions. Microelectronics | Northrop Grumman (https://www.northropgrumman.com/what-we-do/microelectronics)

One of our most challenging new fields is Microelectronics Design and Applications (MDA), which combines the unique properties of superconductivity and quantum mechanics to develop radical new energy-efficient computing systems. MDA is seeking a **Software Engineer** with demonstrated ability to lead development of new technologies to support our innovative MDA team in support of emerging supercomputing technologies.

We are seeking software engineers with robust software development background who have the skills and interest in software design and development of features and algorithms used in scientific software on high-performance computing (HPC) systems. This position will involve code optimization and algorithm development towards improving existing software and tools as well as developing new efficient ones.

This position requires work 100% on site in Linthicum, MD, or Annapolis Junction, MD.

Candidate must be a US Citizen and be willing to obtain/ maintain a security clearance once onboard.

Your responsibilities:

+ Enable scaling of simulation and optimization software on HPC systems through the design and development of efficient parallel algorithms.

+ Leverage software design to improve efficiency of modeling and simulation workflows.

+ Improve simulation performance via code optimization at the core, node, and system level.

+ Develop tools that allow for benchmarking and testing of modeling and simulation software.

Basic Qualifications:

+ Bachelor's degree in a STEM discipline with 2+ years of relative experience; master’s degree in a STEM discipline with 0+ years of relative experience.

+ Experience with collaborative software development including code optimization, debugging, testing and CI/CD.

+ Some experience developing code on HPC systems within Linux environment.

+ Proficiency in writing code in C++ (preferred) and Python.

+ US Citizenship and the ability to obtain and maintain a clearance per business requirements.

Preferred Qualifications:

+ Master’s in computer science, computer engineering, mathematics, or a relevant STEM related field plus 2 years of relevant experience.

+ Experience with running, profiling, and benchmarking software on HPC systems.

+ Experience with hardware-aware code optimization for HPC systems.

+ Experience with developing parallel code (MPI, OpenMP) or GPU programming (CUDA).

+ Active security clearance.

Primary Level Salary Range: $105,400.00 - $158,000.00

The above salary range represents a general guideline; however, Northrop Grumman considers a number of factors when determining base salary offers such as the scope and responsibilities of the position and the candidate's experience, education, skills and current market conditions.

Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay. Annual bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions as well as allow employees to share in company results. Employees in Vice President or Director positions may be eligible for Long Term Incentives. In addition, Northrop Grumman provides a variety of benefits including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, savings plan, Company paid holidays and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business.

The application period for the job is estimated to be 20 days from the job posting date. However, this timeline may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates.

Northrop Grumman is an Equal Opportunity Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class. For our complete EEO and pay transparency statement, please visit http://www.northropgrumman.com/EEO. U.S. Citizenship is required for all positions with a government clearance and certain other restricted positions.