manager software engineering Engineering Manager hybrid · Posted Apr 2, 2026
$161,100 – $241,700
USD per year

About this role

Northrop Grumman is hiring a manager-level Engineering Manager in the software engineering function based in Goleta, CA. Compensation is listed at $161,100–$241,700 per year.

Role
Engineering Manager
Function
software engineering
Level
manager
Track
hybrid
Location
Goleta, CA
Posted
Apr 2, 2026

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Job description

from Northrop Grumman careers

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: No relocation assistance available

CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: No

CLEARANCE TYPE: None

TRAVEL: Yes, 25% of the Time

## Description

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.

Northrop Grumman’s Space Systems sector is looking for a Program Manager 2 to support the Deployables Operating Unit on-site in Goleta, CA.

The Deployable OU is a leading designer, producer, and supplier of spacecraft components that power and enable satellites of all classes. Products include spacecraft panels, bus structures, precision optical structures, deployable structural systems and mechanisms, solar arrays, and antenna reflectors. Our products are on virtually every U.S. satellite built in the last 20 years.

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