Principal/Sr Principal Hardware Engineer - 18641 & 18462
Northrop Grumman · Colorado Springs, CO, US
Hiring signals for Computer Hardware Engineers
SOC 17-2061 — measured across all currently-active postings classified to this occupation.
50
/ 100
Cooling
Computer Hardware Engineers Job Market Score
Driven by
- Pay matches the national median ($144k vs $137k national)
- Slow inflow of new postings (only 2% from the last 14 days)
- Few reposted listings (24% appear duplicated)
Computer Hardware Engineers job market
Aggregated from currently-active postings tracked in Computer Hardware Engineers.
- 283Active postings
- 3Posted this week
- 79Open 30+ days28% of active
- 17Remote / hybrid6% of active
- 7%List salary20 of 283
- 0%Hourly0 of disclosed
- $144kMedian annual (max)
- —Median hourly (max)
- 19dMedian agep90 56d (long tail)
Wages by category
Wages by employment type
Wages by sector
Top categories
- Engineering230
- Embedded35
- DevOps / SRE1
- Customer Success1
- Accounting1
- Server / Host1
In-demand skills
- Python24
- Linux22
- C++21
- Agile8
- Git8
- Bash7
- Perl5
- REST3
Top sectors
- Manufacturing226
- Technology206
- Government / Public Sector25
- Healthcare10
- Professional Services7
- Transportation & Logistics6
Employment mix
- Unspecified258 · 91%
- Full-time13 · 5%
- Intern8 · 3%
- Contract4 · 1%
Top hiring companies
- Category
- Engineering
- Source
- jobs.northropgrumman.com
- Original link
- https://jobs.northropgrumman.com/careers/job/1340070866891
- ATS
- Workday
- Posted
- 2 weeks ago (2026-04-26)
- Status
- active
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- No response · 0
- Interviewed · 0
- Rejected · 0
- Hired · 0
- Posting still active · 0
- Posting removed · 0
- Reposted · 0
- Suspicious · 0
- Description vague · 0
- Salary unclear · 0
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