Principal Software Systems Engineer supporting Northrop Grumman's Sentinel program based in Colorado Springs or Huntsville. Involves collaboration in software development and best practices.
About the role
- Software Systems Engineer building the first robotaxi for public roads. Collaborating with teams to ensure safe middleware software for autonomous vehicles.
Responsibilities
- Act as a cross-functional bridge between middleware developers, and safety teams to ensure aligned design decisions and requirements.
- Develop and maintain a holistic architectural view of the middleware stack, including dependencies, interfaces and potential failure paths, for various compute platforms.
- Help evolve and strengthen the middleware and diagnostics architecture by identifying improvement opportunities such as decoupling interdependent components, designing appropriate fault reactions, etc.
- Define and implement component and system level diagnostics strategy, including fault detection, reporting, logging and traceability.
- Analyze fault propagation scenarios across components and help design mitigations that improve system availability and safety.
- Generate and track fault metrics on a regular cadence.
Requirements
- B.S./M.S./PhD in Engineering, Physics or relevant field and 5+ years of experience
- Strong experience in middleware, ideally in embedded or distributed systems
- Strong communication skills with the ability to translate architectural and safety considerations into actionable engineering requirements
- Demonstrated ability to apply software engineering best practices
- Experience working in cross-functional environments involving platform, safety and software teams
- Hands on experience with design and implementation of diagnostic systems such as health monitoring, fault reduction or logging frameworks (Bonus)
- C++, MATLAB, Python (Bonus)
- Experience on Safety-Critical Systems (Bonus)
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Long-term care insurance
- Long-term and short-term disability insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid time off (e.g. sick leave, vacation, bereavement)
- Unpaid time off
- Zoox Stock Appreciation Rights
- Amazon RSUs
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