Mid-Level Embedded Software Engineer (Clearance Required)

Join a team developing security critical embedded software and firmware for high assurance cryptographic systems supporting the U.S. Department of Defense, NATO, and allied partners.

This is a hands on engineering role focused on secure embedded development, C and Rust, cryptographic systems, and software that goes through formal security certification.

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What You’ll Work On

• Develop embedded software primarily in C and Rust

• Work on cryptographic and key management systems

• Support secure communications, remote rekey, and lifecycle management

• Modernize legacy C codebases and develop Rust based embedded solutions

• Design security boundaries and trusted services

• Support NSA High Assurance certification activities

• Develop requirements, architecture, interface, and design documentation

• Perform unit, integration, acceptance, and hardware in the loop testing

• Work closely with systems, hardware, security, and test engineers

Required

• Active U.S. Government Secret clearance

• U.S. Citizenship

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or equivalent experience

• 5+ years of embedded software development in C and Rust

• Low level embedded development and debugging

• ARM processors and SoC platforms

• Firmware and hardware/software integration

• Strong understanding of memory management, concurrency, and deterministic xhqgsiq embedded behavior

Preferred

• 8+ years of embedded or firmware development

• Rust in constrained embedded environments

• NSA High Assurance, RMF, or similar DoD security frameworks

• Cryptographic systems, key management, secure boot, or trust architectures

• OpenOCD, GDB, JTAG/SWD

• AMD Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC or similar platforms

• Agile or waterfall development experience

Direct Hire | Tampa, FL | ~5% Travel