Principal Program Protection Engineer; Embedded Software Engineer

Job Summary

The Software Product Assurance Center’s Software Security Sensors and Effectors Department is seeking a highly skilled individual to join our software team where you will employ Agile development techniques on embedded targets to continuously develop and deploy critical capabilities to the warfighter. We strive for technical excellence by drawing upon a workforce whose knowledge base and experience covers the complete spectrum of modern computing languages and platforms.

As a professional embedded software engineer, the candidate will be involved with software and firmware design, development, integration, and testing of real‑time embedded solutions with application software, with a focus on overall system integrity. Working side by side with Systems engineering to support generation of design concept and system architectural documentation, support the decomposition of the architectural documentation in support of the generation and decomposition of requirements needed to support software development activities.

The ideal candidate will also participate in Technical Integration Meetings with subcontractors to ensure selected hardware meets hardware and software requirements. The ideal candidate will work individually or as part of a team to apply embedded principles to the design and development of hardened software applications. Software applications are developed using C and C++ on a variety of computing platforms running Linux and other real‑time operating systems.

Finally, the ideal candidate will ensure consistency across teams and remove impediments as they arise.

• A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, or related field and 8+ years of experience.
• Experience in an Agile and Dev Sec Ops  environment developing and maintaining software on embedded processors/microcontrollers.
• Demonstrated ability to work closely across other engineering disciplines (Systems Engineering, Hardware Engineering, etc.) to debug system and board‑level issues using software tools.
• Experience working in a Linux environment with ability to modify and maintain Linux Kernel root file systems.
• Experience developing multithreaded applications.
• Strong knowledge of building up and maintaining a code base built with CMake and Google Test.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance prior to the start date; U.S. citizenship is required.

• Proficiency with RTOS systems, Linux device drivers, and/or embedded Linux.
• Experience developing and troubleshooting on embedded targets.
• Experience designing, implementing, testing, or deploying real‑time embedded software solutions.
• Willingness to learn new techniques and apply critical thinking and problem‑solving skills to diagnose customer issues.
• Knowledge of modern computer architectures and hardware technologies, including x86 and ARM architectures.
• Experience with Field‑Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs).
• Working knowledge of Linux Kernel development and device drivers for the Linux Kernel.
• Experience with bare‑metal software development.
• Experience using version control systems such as Git or Subversion.

Salary range: $107,500 – $204,500. Benefits may include medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short‑term and long‑term disability, 401(k) match, flexible spending accounts, flexible work schedules, employee assistance program, Employee Scholar Program, parental leave, paid time off, and holidays. Specific benefits depend on the business unit and collective‑bargaining agreements. Hired applicants may also be eligible for annual short‑term and/or long‑term incentive compensation programs.

RTX is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status. RTX provides affirmative action in employment for qualified individuals with a disability and protected veterans in compliance with Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act and the Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act.