Sr. Principal Embedded Software Engineer at Northrop Grumman
Camarillo, CA
$142,200–$213,400from the description
Jul 12, 2026
Camarillo, CA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior embedded software engineering role focused on building and maintaining verification and validation tooling for an Electronic Warfare Operational Flight Program (the Growler Block II). Day-to-day work involves developing test-generation applications on flight-representative hardware and simulators, integrating those tools into CI/CD and hardware-in-the-loop environments, and leading root-cause investigations on test failures. The role also carries a mentorship and technical authority responsibility for junior engineers. Requires an active DoD Secret clearance and full on-site presence split between Camarillo, CA and Naval Air Warfare Center, Point Mugu.
Senior level · 8+ years · Remote · Bachelor's required · Secret clearance · Full-time
Advertised as Principal, but the requirements read as Senior.
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How this req sits in the market our data
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Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762). 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 (9)
The job posting explicitly states 100% on-site work at Camarillo, CA / Point Mugu with no virtual or telecommute options. The caller's instruction to treat this as fully remote contradicts the posting; remote has been set to false to faithfully reflect the actual job requirement. The metro is set to Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA accordingly.
The title is 'Sr. Principal Embedded Software Engineer.' Northrop Grumman uses 'Sr. Principal' as a level label (above Senior, below Fellow), but the role's actual scope — owning a toolset family and mentoring junior engineers on a single program — is consistent with a Senior band rather than a true org-wide Principal. Advertised seniority is set to Principal to reflect the title; required seniority is set to Senior.
The role is primarily about designing and developing embedded verification/test-generation tools (software development), with a secondary QA/testing flavor. 15-1252 Software Developers is the primary classification; 15-1253 is the runner-up.
The basic qualifications list Ada, C/C++, C#, and Visual Basic as a group with 'and/or' — at least one is required. Ada and C++ are emitted as the primary skills with the others as alternatives, reflecting the embedded/real-time context of the role.
Git, ClearCase, and Bitbucket are listed as alternatives for version control; Jenkins and GitLab CI are listed as alternatives for CI/CD tooling — all under the required qualifications section.
Electronic Warfare domain experience is listed as a basic qualification but names no specific technology or tool, so it is omitted from the skills list per extraction rules.
IBM DOORS, Confluence, Jira, and SharePoint appear under Preferred Qualifications and are marked accordingly.
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.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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