Application Engineer
Real-Time Innovations8 hours ago
Remote, United StatesSenior / Staff+
H1B sponsor
Responsibilities
- Work directly with customer engineers to design and prototype distributed systems using RTI Connext.
- Debug network, performance, and concurrency bugs across customer codebases and embedded environments.
- Review customer architecture, configuration, and code to identify bottlenecks before deployment.
- Build proof-of-concept demonstrations and code examples for customer-specific use cases.
- Conduct technical training sessions and deep-dive design reviews remotely and at customer facilities.
- Communicate field insights, edge cases, and feature requests to internal teams.
Requirements
- 7–10+ years of software engineering or technical customer-facing engineering experience.
- Degree in computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, or equivalent practical background.
- Strong development and debugging skills in C and C++.
- Strong working knowledge of Linux, sockets, and UDP, TCP, and multicast networking.
- Experience using Wireshark and GDB to investigate packet loss, latency spikes, and thread deadlocks.
- Clear communication of technical trade-offs to engineers and project leads.
- Willingness and ability to travel 20–35% to customer sites.
- U.S. citizenship is required.
- Preferred qualifications include RTI Connext, DDS, ROS 2, Kafka, MQTT, defense platforms, avionics, radar, robotics, MOSA standards such as FACE or SOSA, AI developer tools, Java, C#, Python, VxWorks, QNX, and an active U.S. security clearance.
Benefits
- Flexible working schedule.
- Remote work with a home office stipend.
- Flexible paid time off and an additional vacation bonus for taking more than one uninterrupted week off.
- Annual bonus based on individual and company performance, plus other prizes and awards.
- Career growth and development opportunities with tools and recognition for achievements.
- Team trips, team-building activities, and in-person company events.
Tech Stack
Categories
Solutions Engineering
About Real-Time Innovations
Real-Time Innovations (RTI) builds Connext, a standards-based (OMG DDS) real-time data distribution platform used to connect and control mission- and safety-critical systems across aerospace/defense, medical, automotive, and robotics. The company sells commercial software licenses with support and professional services for edge-to-cloud deployments and embedded/real-time environments. Founded in 1991 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA, RTI is privately held.