Principal SW Engineer - SW Technical Lead - F18 Gen 4 Radar
RTX Corporation2 months ago
El Segundo, CA, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$118k - $225k/yr
Responsibilities
- Provide technical guidance and lead the F/A-18 software team while coordinating with engineering counterparts, program leadership, and customers.
- Hold the team accountable and drive progress toward deadlines, technical milestones, and software deliverables.
- Design, develop, test, troubleshoot, debug, and optimize software for the APG-79 radar.
- Support software integration on hardware and analyze, implement, and test system modification requests.
- Consult on development and production software roadmap activities.
- Write and maintain software architecture, design, and application documentation.
- Collaborate across engineering disciplines on system baseline changes and verification activities.
Requirements
- STEM degree and at least 8 years of relevant software development experience.
- Experience serving as a Software REA or Software Technical Lead and interfacing with customers.
- Experience with C, C++, Ada, or related languages and tools across the software development lifecycle.
- Experience with UNIX, Linux, Windows, VxWorks, Green Hills, or other real-time operating systems.
- Active and transferable U.S. government-issued Secret clearance before the start date and U.S. citizenship.
- Ability to obtain special access program eligibility for continued employment.
- Preferred experience includes Top Secret clearance, ground or airborne sensors, radar modes and algorithms, signal processing, target detection and tracking, networks, embedded software, Git, CI/CD tools, Jenkins, Subversion, DoD architectures, OMS, SOSA, and Link-16.
- Preferred experience includes production-level software deployment, full-lifecycle development of high-TRL systems, and embedded or hardware-interfacing software.
Benefits
- Onsite work at the El Segundo, California campus.
- Relocation assistance is available.
- Benefits may include medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability coverage, 401(k) matching, flexible spending accounts, paid time off, holidays, flexible work schedules, parental leave, employee assistance, educational assistance, achievement awards, career development, and backup care.
- Eligible employees may receive incentive compensation and access to the Employee Scholar Program, subject to applicable conditions.
About RTX Corporation
RTX Corporation builds aerospace and defense systems through its Collins Aerospace, Pratt & Whitney, and Raytheon businesses, serving commercial aviation, the U.S. government, and allied militaries. Its products range from aircraft engines and avionics to radars, missiles, and command-and-control software, sold via long-term OEM programs and defense contracts. Formed in 2020 by the Raytheon–United Technologies merger, RTX is headquartered in Arlington, Virginia and trades on the NYSE as RTX.