Software Engineer II (onsite)

Date Posted:

2025-05-20

Country:

United States of America

Location:

HTX36: Richardson, TX 3200 E Renner Rd , Richardson, TX, 75082-2402 USA

Position Role Type:

Onsite

U.S. Citizen, U.S. Person, or Immigration Status Requirements:

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​

Security Clearance:

DoD Clearance: Secret

Are you looking to make a meaningful, positive impact while advancing your career?

Here at Collins Aerospace, we’re enhancing mission critical systems for our military to deter against current and future adversarial threats. The need for passionate engineers who want to make a difference is now! Our team develops strategic solutions to ensure Nuclear Command, Control, and Communications (NC3) function accurately, on-time, every time, and under the most extreme circumstances for our national defense.

We have an opportunity for a Software Engineer to join a cohort of 20+ talented software engineers in developing our Very Low Frequency (VLF) solution for the military. The government has requested a need for greater cyber security threat protection, software assurance, improvement in availability and reliability while harnessing the latest technologies for rapid development and deployment.

 What You Will Do: 

• Work collaboratively in a supporting team environment to solve our customer’s mission critical needs.

• Develop and integrate multi-threaded embedded software using C and C++.

• Define software requirements and UML design diagrams within a Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) tool.

• Support integration and verification within our automated test framework (gtest, python, JSON).

• Provide insight on future scope, task assignments, and process improvements within our Agile cadence.

• Collaborate with Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) and cross-functional teams for a unified solution.

What You Will Learn:

• Full software development lifecycle within defense industry.

• Agile development within a classified environment.

• Integration and validation on a variety of hardware controller cards.

• Best practices in secure software coding on embedded systems.

Qualifications You Must Have:

• Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and minimum 2 years prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field.

• Previous Professional work experience utilizing C, C++, python, and/or Linux.

Qualifications We Prefer:

• Experience in embedded C++ in real-time operating systems (RTOS) on Arm-based platforms.

• Experience with multithreading, memory management, and performance optimization in complex environments.

• Experience in secure coding practices.

• Experience with hardware-software integration and hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing.

• Experience with UML, SysML, MBSE and CAMEO Modeling tools.

• Experience with development tool sets, including Jira, Git, Visual Studio Code, cmake.

• Experience with automated test frameworks, unit testing, and requirements traceability.

• Experience in leadership roles (Scrum Master, Product Owner, Release Train Engineer).

 

What We Offer:  

Some of our competitive benefits package includes:     

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance  

• Three weeks of vacation for newly hired employees    

• Generous 401(k) plan that includes employer matching funds and separate employer retirement contribution, including a Lifetime Income Strategy option    

• Tuition reimbursement program  

• Student Loan Repayment Program    

• Life insurance and disability coverage    

• Optional coverages you can buy pet insurance, home and auto insurance, additional life and accident insurance, critical illness insurance, group legal, ID theft protection   

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