Embedded Security Software Engineer I

About the Role

Join the Secure Product Assurance/Sensors Space and Air Software team at Raytheon, developing cutting-edge software applications for defense challenges. As an Embedded Security Software Engineer, you will design, code, integrate, and test critical real-time embedded software for next-generation radar, sensor, guidance, and fire control systems. You will contribute across all phases of the software development lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities

• Work on complex technical problems and provide innovative solutions.
• Investigate and troubleshoot issues and develop resolutions.
• Work across all phases of the SW development lifecycle, including SW/HW integration.
• Assist in the derivation of system and software requirements, architectural modeling, and technical analysis.
• Design, code, unit test, integrate, and document real-time embedded software solutions with a focus on Secure Software Solution implementations.
• Participate in software peer reviews, code inspections, and technical decision-making with multidisciplinary teams.
• Support program execution to meet technical, cost, schedule, and quality baselines.
• Follow established software development processes and practices.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Bachelor’s degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) discipline from an accredited institution.
• Experience developing, testing, or debugging software using C, C++, or similar object-oriented programming language.
• Experience with scripting languages such as Python, Perl, or similar.
• Real-time embedded software development experience.
• Strong hands-on troubleshooting and problem-solving experience.
• Experience developing software in a team-based development environment.
• Experience may be obtained through on-the-job experience, research, coursework, or projects.

Qualifications We Prefer

• Knowledge of Software Development Processes and experience participating in all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Experience with Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines and automated build environments.
• Familiarity with Scrum/Agile, DevSecOps, Git/GitLab.
• Familiarity with Linux OS and Kernel development; Linux device drivers.
• Hands-on experience developing low-level device drivers or real-time embedded operating system (RTOS) applications.
• Hardware / software integration experience.
• Interfacing with FPGAs.
• Inter-processor communication.
• X-86 and ARM Architectures.
• Secure boot concepts.
• Embedded Software Security experience.
• Experience designing, implementing, testing, or fielding real-time security-oriented solutions on Department of Defense (DoD) programs.

Security Requirements

• The ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government issued security clearance is required.
• U.S. citizenship is required.
• DoD Clearance: Secret required.
• Active and existing security clearance required after day 1.

Work Location

• Onsite at our Tucson, AZ Campus.