Senior Program Protection Engineer

RTX•Tewksbury, MA

22h•Onsite

About The Position

At Raytheon, the foundation of everything we do is rooted in our values and a higher calling – to help our nation and allies defend freedoms and deter aggression. We bring the strength of more than 100 years of experience and renowned engineering expertise to meet the needs of today’s mission and stay ahead of tomorrow’s threat. Our team solves tough, meaningful problems that create a safer, more secure 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 workforce whose knowledge base and experience covers the complete spectrum of modern computing languages and platforms. As a senior 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 candidate , 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. The candidate will ensure consistency across teams and remove impediments as they arise.

Requirements

Typically requires a Bachelor’s in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics and a minimum of 5 years of experience
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 system
Experience developing multithreaded applications.
Experience building up and maintaining a code base built with CMake and Google Test.
Active and transferable U.S. government issued security clearance is required prior to 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