Sr. Staff Software Architect-Guidance Systems Integration-14255
Northrop Grumman · Roy, UT
$162,500–$243,700from the description
Jul 24, 2026
Roy, UT
Jul 26, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A technical leadership role on a Flight Guidance, Navigation, and Controls software team supporting a defense program in Roy, Utah. The work centers on architecting and driving development of real-time embedded software — covering kernel configuration, middleware integration, driver implementation, and performance optimization — while mentoring engineers and guiding formal testing, simulation integration, and defect resolution. Suits a deeply experienced embedded software engineer with a background in systems engineering and team leadership.
Principal level · 10+ years · Ogden-Clearfield, UT · Secret clearance · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
What the occupation pays Median $112,296 (middle half $88,576–$146,860). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (10)
The role requires 10+ years of software experience and 14 years total professional experience with a Bachelor's (or equivalent), placing it well above Senior. The JD describes org-level technical leadership — architecting complex systems, advising on formal test approaches, mentoring engineers, and executive-level communication — which supports a Principal-level classification despite the title carrying no explicit level word.
Degree requirement is set to None because the JD explicitly accepts 4 additional years of experience in lieu of a degree.
The overall years minimum is set to 10 (the PhD-track minimum); the Bachelor's track requires 14 years. The 10-year floor is used as the stated minimum across all educational paths.
The active DoD Secret clearance is a hard gate per the posting ('Must be a US Citizen, with an active DoD Secret clearance'). The SAP eligibility requirement is noted but is not a separately enumerated clearance level.
Coverity, SonarQube (listed as 'SonarCube' in the posting), CodeSonar, and Fortify are all listed together as alternatives under Preferred Qualifications; they are captured as one skill entry with alternatives.
Integrity OS and VxWorks are listed as alternatives ('and/or') under Preferred Qualifications.
Model Based Engineering, Atlassian, Kubernetes, GitLab, and DevSecOps appear together in a single preferred bullet; each is captured as a separate preferred skill.
Hardware-in-the-loop and simulation testing experience (5+ years) is a stated requirement but names no specific tool or platform, so it is not emitted as a named skill per extraction rules.
Ignored 3 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): real-time embedded software, object-oriented design, Model Based Engineering.
Requires a Secret clearance — the cleared population is a small fraction of this occupation, so the real candidate pool is materially smaller than the estimate below, which does not model clearance.
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