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Principal Software Engineer (Hybrid)

RTX
Windsor Locks, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 31 Mar 2025
💰 $203,000/yr($101,000/yr$203,000/yr)

About the role

Date Posted:

2025-03-28

Country:

United States of America

Location:

01: Building 01 Windsor Locks One Hamilton Road, Windsor Locks, CT, 06096 USA

Position Role Type:

Hybrid

Are you looking to Do Something Cool on your software journey? How about developing world-class computing platforms that are critical to aircraft performance and passenger comfort? As a Principal Software Engineer, you will contribute to a collaborate team that will create high quality products that meet rigid safety and airworthiness standards.

As a member of our team, you will be involved in the design, development, verification, and integration of our environmental and airframe control systems.

This is a hybrid role (combination of onsite and remote work) based in Windsor Locks, CT.  Weekly onsite presence is required.

What You Will Do:

  • You will be involved with requirements generation- Authoring and decomposing High- and Low-Level Requirements.

  • You will Design and Code Software Modules (C, Ada, Python).

  • You will demonstrate technical expertise in processing platforms and the associated technologies.

  • You will work within a small team environment where their designs and efforts contribute to a greater collective product.

  • You will be involved with Software Verification – Test Case, Procedure, and plan execution.

  • You will model Systems and Controls – Designing and updating Control Models.

  • You will identify and advocate improvement to processes and technical solutions which affect the team and/or product.

  • You will effectively communication with internal teams, customers, and leadership.

  • You will take on challenges, drive performance, and mentor junior team members.

What You Will Learn:

  • You will learn to deliver new complex software features to customers in alignment with product road maps.

  • You will grow your professional skills by being trained on modern technology stacks and become more knowledgeable in the aerospace industry.

Qualifications You Must Have:

  • Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) unless prohibited by local laws/regulations and minimum 8 years prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 5 years of experience or in absence of a degree, 12 years of relevant experience.

  • U.S. Person (U.S. citizen, permanent resident, refugee or asylee) or eligible to obtain necessary export authorizations required https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-22/chapter-I/subchapter-M/part-120/subpart-C/section-120.62.

Qualifications We Prefer:

  • Software & system engineering experience.

  • An aptitude for debugging and troubleshooting Software defects.

  • Matlab, Ada, C, Python, Linux, MS Office experience.

  • Experience coding in C and Python.

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 
  • Birth, adoption, parental leave benefits 
  • Ovia Health, fertility, and family planning  
  • Adoption Assistance           
  • Autism Benefit  
  • Employee Assistance Plan, including up to 10 free counseling sessions  
  • Healthy You Incentives, wellness rewards program 
  • Doctor on Demand, virtual doctor visits  
  • Bright Horizons, child and elder care services 
  • Teladoc Medical Experts, second opinion program  
  •  And more!  

We make modern flight possible for millions of travelers and our military every second.  Our major product lines are on-board virtually every aircraft flying. Be it keeping passengers safe with our emergency power generation systems or creating a positive in flight experience through reliable cabin pressure controls and quieter engines, Power & Cont

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