2026 Full-time - Program Protection Software Engineer I - Onsite (MA)

RTX•Concord, CA

5d•Onsite

About The Position

At RTX, the world largest aerospace and defense company, 185,000 great minds are united by purpose and inspired to make a difference solving the world’s most complex problems. With our three market leading businesses, world-class operations and investments in research and development, we offer capabilities and opportunity no one else can. Together, we push the boundaries of known science and find new ways to connect and protect our world. 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 diverse 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 then, working individually or as part of a team, will be responsible for applying 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. Lastly, the ideal candidate will ensure consistency across teams and remove impediments as they arise.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, or related field (STEM).
This position requires 12 months or less of relevant professional work experience (excluding Internships).
Experience in an Agile and DevSecOps environment developing and maintaining software on an embedded processors/microcontroller
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.
The ability to obtain and maintain a US security clearance prior to the start date.
U.S. citizenship is required as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance

Nice To Haves

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, ARM Architectures Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs)
Working knowledge of the 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.
Demonstrated ability to work closely across other engineering disciplines (Systems Engineering, Hardware Engineering, etc.) to debug system and board level issues using software tools

Responsibilities

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
Participate in Technical Integration Meetings with subcontractors to ensure selected hardware meets hardware and software requirements
Applying embedded principles to the design and development of hardened software applications
Ensure consistency across teams and remove impediments as they arise