Northrop Grumman

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.

As a Software Engineer on this team, you will support a team of engineers to d efine, develop, and deliver novel mathematical and statistical modeling and algorithm development to tackle the challenges of prediction, optimization, and classification.

In this role, you will a pply machine learning algorithms to large sets of structured and unstructured data to solve a broad range of problems that include applications in pattern recognition, target detection and tracking, machine learning and decision systems, and robotic systems.

The AI Software Engineer w orks closely with AI Systems Engineers to understand program intent, system capabilities, and output requirements.

May design software-systems, applications, and data architectures that directly implement AI techniques to support achieving better reliability, precision, accuracy, and speed to meet performance requirements.

This position will require onsite ing to McLean, Virginia or Arlington, Virginia.

Roles and Responsibilities

Participate in multi-disciplinary, collaborative teams and contribute to the advancement of novel artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities for today’s warfighter

Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deploy machine learning algorithms to both prototype and production systems

Design, develop and analyze signal and image processing algorithms for exploitation of sensor data

Implementing API and database interfaces to deploy algorithms for test and evaluation

Work on products to include written technical model documentation, s, presentations

This position can be filled at the AI Software Engineer or Principal AI Software Engineer

Basic Qualifications for AI Software Engineer :

Bachelor’s degree with 2 years of experience, a Master’s degree or PhD with 0 years of experience or a PhD with 0 years of experience in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics)

This position requires the applicant to be a U.S. citizen with an active Secret Clearance per business requirements

Familiarity with ML frameworks such as Keras, PyTorch, or TensorFlow

Experience with data analysis and feature engineering to improve AI / ML models for sensor data classification

Proven work and experience with technical writing and or documentation

Demonstrated knowledge and experience of computer vision modeling ( object localization)

The demonstrated ability to perform innovative, applied research, and to develop proper integration techniques of mission modeling applied to the battlefield

Proven work with mission analysis and integration of AI to enhance the mission

Proven ability to develop and work with software packages in a customer facing environment (on-site, collaboratively with customer team)

Proven experience presenting results and progress to the customer and stakeholders

Basic Qualifications for Principal AI Software Engineer :

Bachelor’s degree with 5 years of experience, a Master’s degree with 3 years of experience or a PhD with 0 years of experience in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics)