Sr Associate, RUST Software Engineer

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Harris is dedicated to recruiting and developing high‑performing talent who are passionate about what they do. Our employees are unified in a shared dedication to our customers’ mission and quest for professional growth. L3

Harris provides an inclusive, engaging environment designed to empower employees and promote work‑life success. Fundamental to our culture is an unwavering focus on values, dedication to our communities, and commitment to excellence in everything we do.

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Harris Technologies is the Trusted Disruptor in the defense industry. With customers’ mission‑critical needs always in mind, our employees deliver end‑to‑end technology solutions connecting the space, air, land, sea and cyber domains in the interest of national security.

Sr. Associate, Software Engineer (RUST Software Engineer)

32450

Herndon, VA

9/80:
Employees work 9 out of every 14 days, totalling 80 hours worked, and have every other Friday off.

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Harris Technologies is an agile global aerospace and defense technology innovator, delivering end‑to‑end solutions that meet customers’ mission‑critical needs. The company provides advanced defense and commercial technologies across space, air, land, sea and cyber domains. L3

Harris has approximately $18 billion in annual revenue and 47,000 employees, with customers in more than 100 countries.

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Harris Integrated Mission Systems is seeking a Software Engineer with a strong background in the RUST Programming Language and proven experience developing systems with RUST to guide the next generation of mission‑critical systems. Responsibilities include guiding adoption of RUST throughout the embedded development, managing integration or conversion of legacy software to RUST, providing best practices and architectural guidance for memory‑safe usage of RUST, developing best practices and implementation guidance, and the translation of requirements into working and maintainable solutions for our C5 and Cyber Solution Centers.

The selected candidate will apply technical proficiency across various stages of our SDLC, gather requirements and work closely with stakeholders to prioritize and scope tasks. The selected candidate will be working as a key team member on a Scrum team and will be instrumental in setting our direction and strategy for product and infrastructure development.

• Support the engineering team members in embedded software application development specifically with RUST.
• Lead the adoption and deployment of RUST and associated techniques, idioms, design patterns, and tooling throughout multiple product lines.
• Apply computer science, engineering, and mathematical analysis concepts and principles in the development of software for the target hardware.
• Work closely with cross‑functional members of the engineering organization to develop and evaluate interfaces between hardware and software, and operational performance requirements and design of the overall system.
• Support and participate in all phases of the software development life cycle, including requirements analysis, design, implementation, hardware‑software integration, and formal test.
• Investigate root causes of complex issues, and implement solutions, working independently or with a multi‑discipline team.
• Develop software test plans and procedures, and other relevant technical documentation.
• Utilize modeling tools and equipment to establish operating data, conduct experimental tests, prototype, and evaluate results.
• Participate in peer reviews, identify, track and repair defects.
• Utilize a variety of software languages (primarily RUST, C/C++, and Python) developing code for embedded real‑time operating systems (VxWorks, Linux, Integrity).
• Travel >30% to another L3
  
  Harris location for onboarding, integration or scrum.

• U.S. citizenship with a Active Department of Defense (DoD) Secret clearance.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or related field and a minimum of 2 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 1 year of prior related experience.
• 1+…