Software Architect
RTX Corporation22 hours ago
Boston, MA, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$157k - $299k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the software architecture vision and long-term roadmap for the SPY-6 Family of Radars across multiple configurations.
- Provide technical leadership across programs and subcontractors while driving modernization initiatives, modular open-system architectures, DevSecOps, and digital engineering.
- Collaborate with systems, hardware, Navy, and industry stakeholders to define capabilities and maintain end-to-end system coherence.
- Identify and mitigate critical technical risks, direct subcontractor technical approaches, and maintain consistency across radar variants and shared software components.
- Establish architectural standards, interface definitions, and design patterns for software quality, maintainability, and product-line integrity.
- Lead cross-baseline alignment and adoption of model-based architecture and digital engineering tools.
- Support technical reviews, new business pursuits, proposal contributions, and mentoring of senior engineers.
Requirements
- A STEM degree and a minimum of 12 years of prior relevant experience are required.
- Experience with real-time, distributed, or mission-critical software systems and complex architectures across multivariant product lines is required.
- Experience shaping technical direction across large organizations, external partners, and customer communities is required.
- Experience with C++, Linux-based systems, high-performance computing, and modern software engineering practices is required.
- Experience leading major technical reviews, independent architecture assessments, software modernization, containerization, and microservices is required.
- Experience with SysML/UML, digital thread or digital twin concepts, and architecture modeling tools is required.
- Radar domain experience, cyber architecture collaboration, software safety standards, and software assurance experience are required.
- An active and transferable Secret U.S. government-issued security clearance is required before starting, with the ability to obtain Top Secret clearance after start.
- Preferred qualifications include distributed middleware, high-bandwidth sensor systems, data-intensive computing, Docker, Kubernetes, automated test infrastructure, secure software development, Ethernet networking, fault tolerance, redundant architecture, and customer-facing technical communication.
Benefits
- The role is onsite in Marlborough, Massachusetts, and relocation is eligible.
- Benefits may include medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability coverage, 401(k) matching, flexible spending accounts, flexible work schedules, employee assistance, the Employee Scholar Program, parental leave, paid time off, and holidays.
- The position may include eligibility for annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs, which are not guaranteed.
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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.