Principal Engineer, Actuation Systems Embedded Software
RTX Corporation3 months ago
Huntsville, AL, USA or Tucson, AZ, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$108k - $205k/yr
Responsibilities
- Specify, design, verify, and integrate motor-control embedded firmware for precision control actuation systems.
- Implement digital control algorithms in C/C++ with the Controls and Algorithms team.
- Develop models and perform data analysis using MATLAB/Simulink.
- Integrate and verify firmware with electrical and mechanical hardware in laboratory environments.
- Collaborate with electrical, mechanical, control systems, test, systems safety, and other engineering teams.
- Document engineering work, code, test benches, and test software in a disciplined and controlled manner.
Requirements
- University degree in a STEM field and at least 8 years of relevant experience, or an advanced degree and at least 5 years of relevant experience.
- Experience with systems engineering design or development and disciplined engineering documentation.
- Experience developing C/C++ software on embedded hardware platforms or similar systems.
- Experience with MATLAB/Simulink model development or data analysis.
- Ability to obtain an interim U.S. government-issued Secret security clearance before the start date and U.S. citizenship eligibility for the clearance.
- Preferred advanced degree in aerospace, control systems, mechanical, electrical engineering, physics, or computer science.
- Preferred experience developing safety-significant firmware or software, including requirements traceability, design decomposition, static analysis, MISRA-C, test cases, MC/DC coverage, and formal qualification testing.
- Preferred experience with FPGA firmware, embedded microcontrollers, digital signal processors, serial interfaces, analog-to-digital converters, PWM generators, electromechanical actuators, sensors, controllers, power amplifiers, and test equipment.
- Preferred knowledge of actuator communication buses, UART, SPI, I2C, electric motor modeling and controls, PMSM fundamentals, digital and analog signal electronics, and configuration management tools.
- Ability to work hands-on in teams and communicate effectively with technical, non-technical, and management audiences.
Benefits
- Onsite work arrangement in Tucson, Arizona, Huntsville, Alabama, or Portsmouth, Rhode Island.
- Potential eligibility for medical, dental, vision, life, short-term disability, long-term disability, 401(k) match, flexible spending accounts, flexible work schedules, employee assistance, employee education, parental leave, paid time off, and holidays.
- Potential eligibility for annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs.
- Relocation eligibility is noted in the posting.
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.