Lead Rust Software Engineer

Overview

Two Six Technologies is seeking a Lead Rust Software Engineer to drive the development of secure, high-performance embedded systems written primarily in Rust. You’ll leverage Rust’s memory-safety and concurrency guarantees to implement robust, low-level software on bare-metal and RTOS-based platforms. As part of an interdisciplinary design team, you’ll apply security-first design principles, integrating cutting-edge hardware, cryptography, and tool chains to build resilient systems from the ground up, supporting critical national security objectives.

• Maturing proof-of-concept R&D technology to operational fieldable solutions
• Hardware/Software co-design: bridging the gap between software and hardware
• Developing unit, integration, and hardware-in-loop test regimens to ensure high reliability and resilience in delivered products
• Implementing boot-time integrity verification and secure field update capabilities
• Development of secure, reliable software, utilizing modern hardware security primitives, best practices, and memory-safe programming languages/strategies
• Support of scalable and modular design methodology
• Engaging in technical exchanges with transition partners and key stakeholders

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer/Electrical Engineering, or related technical domain
• Minimum of 7 years of experience with one or more of the following modern development languages:
  Python, C, C++, Embedded C
• Minimum of 2 years experience with Operating Systems internals (privilege and user groups, binary memory layout) and/or Trusted Execution Environments such as ARM Trust Zone
• Experience developing memory-safe applications in the Rust programming language
• Active Top Secret Clearance (candidate must be willing to pursue higher clearance levels including those requiring a polygraph)
• Ability to work on-site at Arlington, VA headquarters

• Strong leadership and project management skills, with the ability to mentor junior engineers and drive technical execution
• Experience with Rust for embedded applications, especially embassy-rs for STM
  32 microcontrollers
• Experience developing and/or customizing bootloaders such as Wolf Boot, implementing secure firmware update using digital signatures
• Basic understanding of memory management concepts (Heap, Stack, Virtual Memory, MMU, Physical vs. Virtual)
• Experience with testing, CI/CD pipelines, and virtual machine test ranges
• Experience with firmware/driver development across Linux and/or Windows Operating Systems
• Top Secret//SCI clearance with polygraph
• Graduate degree in Computer Science, Computer/Electrical Engineering, or related Scientific Domain

• Active Top Secret Clearance (candidate must be willing to pursue higher clearance levels including those requiring a polygraph)

Two Six Technologies is committed to providing competitive and comprehensive compensation packages. We offer medical, dental, and vision insurance, life and disability insurance, retirement benefits, paid leave, tuition assistance and professional development.

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