Embedded Security Software Engineer I

About the Role

Embedded Security Software Engineer – Secure Product Assurance

Key Responsibilities

• Work on complex technical problems and collaborate to provide innovative solutions. Requires investigation and troubleshooting skills to assess issues and develop resolutions.
• Work at all phases of the SW development lifecycle, including SW/HW integration, dependent on program phase.
• 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 actively in software peer reviews, code inspections, and technical decision-making alongside multidisciplinary teams, including program leadership and customers.
• Support program execution to ensure work products meet technical, cost, schedule, and quality baselines.
• Follow established software development processes and practices to maintain software product integrity.
• Work Location: Onsite at our Tewksbury, MA Campus.
• This position requires the eligibility to obtain a security clearance.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Bachelor’s degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) discipline from an accredited institution.
• Experience developing, and 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 with strong teamwork and communication skills.
• 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), including requirements, design, implementation, and testing.
• Experience working 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 Clearance

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