2026 Associate Software Engineer - Huntsville AL at Northrop Grumman
Huntsville, AL
$72,700–$109,100from the description
Jul 15, 2026
Huntsville, AL
Jul 20, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
An entry-level software engineering role within a rotational program that offers three placements across different engineering teams. Day-to-day work involves designing, developing, testing, and debugging software applications and systems with mathematical and logical components, with some collaboration alongside hardware engineers. A degree in a computing or related STEM field and eligibility for a U.S. Secret clearance are required.
Junior level · Huntsville, AL · Bachelor's required · Secret clearance · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
What the occupation pays Median $130,897 (middle half $102,526–$165,828). 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 (7)
The role is titled 'Associate Software Engineer' and is explicitly framed as an entry-level / campus hire position within a rotational Pathways program — no prior professional experience is required.
Clearance: candidates must be able to OBTAIN a Secret clearance (U.S. citizenship required); an active clearance is not required at start, but the posting header states 'CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: Yes' — interpreted as the ability to obtain one being a hard gate.
The posting also mentions the ability to obtain Special Access Program (SAP) access as a requirement, which is above a standard Secret clearance; this cannot be represented in the clearance field but is noted here.
Degree field: a Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD is accepted; Bachelor's is set as the minimum. The required major is Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related STEM field — captured as a skill rather than a named technology, as no specific tools or languages are listed in the requirements.
No specific technologies, languages, or frameworks are listed anywhere in the posting; the skills extracted reflect only the degree-field gate and the preferred GPA.
GPA of 3.0/4.0 or higher appears only under Preferred Qualifications.
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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