Principal Embedded Security Software Engineer-gsKit

Date Posted:

2025-01-30

Country:

United States of America

Location:

AZ848: RMS AP Bldg 848 1151 East Hermans Road Building 848, Tucson, AZ, 85756 USA

Position Role Type:

Onsite

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. 

Raytheon Software Security Sensors and Effectors Department is looking for a Principal Software Engineer in Tucson, AZ. Our mission is to provide world class Security Software to be used in deployed missile systems. Our software teams employ an Agile Scrum process to rapidly design, code, and integrate capabilities on a continuous basis into a mature solution for our customers. We strive for technical excellence by drawing upon a diverse workforce whose knowledge base covers the complete spectrum of modern computing languages and platforms.

This position requires understanding of real-time software design and the performance implications associated with specific System Security implementations. The candidate will require the ability to understand how their efforts affect the “big picture” of the missile system and be able to develop or review detail solutions at the source code level.

This position is a fulltime onsite role in Tucson AZ.

What You Will Do:

• As a System Security software engineer, the candidate will be involved with software and firmware design, development, integration, and testing of real-time missile software.

• Apply System Security principles to the design and implementation of hardened Radar software applications.

• Developing software applications using C and C++ languages on a variety of computing platforms

• Understand real-time software design and the performance implications associated with specific System Security implementations.

• Work closely with the Systems Security Engineering team to define and implement requirements.

• Interfacing with a common development to support development to facilitate program’s ability to leverage specific capabilities.

• Interfacing with customer community to review technical design and support verification of system maturity.

Qualifications You Must Have:

• Typically requires a Bachelor’s degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics or related field and a minimum of 8 years of experience

• Experience with C / C++

• Experience with Xilinx Zynq UltaScale+ MPSoC

• VxWorks OS experience

• Embedded Software Security experience

• Active and transferable U.S. government issued Secret security clearance is required prior to start date. U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance

Qualifications We Prefer:

• MS degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Math, or related engineering/science discipline

• Experience with qualification and verification of software applications

• Experience with any of the following:

  • Linux/Unix environment

  • Interfacing with FPGAs

  • Interfacing with low-level memory drivers

  • Inter-processor communication

  • ARM Architecture

  • Secure boot concepts

• Experience designing, implementing, testing, or fielding real-time security-oriented solutions on Department of Defense (DoD) programs (embedded experience highly preferred)

• Experience using security-relevant tools and devices for security auditing, network security, host/server security, communication security, or policy management.

• Experience in Agile and DevSecOps environments

• Experience in an Agile/Scrum/Kanban frameworks and development environments

• Experience using software configuration management and bug tracking tools

• Experience with Python / Perl

• Knowledge of modern computer architectures and hardware technologies including:

  • PCIe, GPIO, I2C, SATA

  • Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs)

  • Application-Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs)

What We Offer

• Our values drive our actions, behaviors, and performance with a vision for a safer, more connected world. At RTX we value: Trust, Respect, Accountability, Collaboration, and Inn