Senior Software Engineer
RTX Corporation3 months ago
Cambridge, MA, USASenior
Base Salary
$87k - $165k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, analyze, and prototype innovative multi-domain system architectures.
- Develop embedded software and sophisticated detection, classification, localization, and tracking algorithms.
- Design software that optimizes sensor-system performance.
- Implement software for guidance and control of autonomous vehicles.
- Evaluate designs in real-time mission scenarios and perform operational analysis.
- Optimize algorithm designs for high performance.
- Plan, direct, and coordinate tasks or small projects involving multiple individuals.
- Contribute to business-development proposals and white papers and present effectively to customers.
- Support limited off-site testing, including possible overnight travel.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, or a related discipline plus five years of relevant professional experience; alternatively, a relevant master’s degree plus three years of experience, or a PhD.
- Active and transferable U.S. government-issued security clearance required before the start date; an active Secret DoD clearance is required on day one.
- U.S. citizenship is required because only U.S. citizens are eligible for the required security clearance.
- Prior experience with software design, simulation, analysis, and implementation.
- Prior experience programming in C++ or another modern object-oriented language in a Linux development environment.
- Preferred experience with Python and Bash.
- Preferred experience with Linux development tools including git, Valgrind, and gdb.
- Preferred exposure to Google FlatBuffers, Armadillo, and REST API development libraries.
- Preferred experience with multithreaded applications, inter-process communication, resource sharing, and real-time processing systems.
Benefits
- Onsite work in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
- Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, and long-term disability benefits may be available.
- 401(k) matching, flexible spending accounts, flexible work schedules, employee assistance, parental leave, paid time off, and holidays may be available.
- Eligible employees may receive annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation, 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.