[Hiring] Application Engineer @Real-Time Innovations

Role Description

As a key member of our Professional Services team, you will act as a trusted technical advisor to leading Aerospace & Defense engineering teams. You will tackle complex distributed systems challenges, optimize microsecond-level deterministic data flows, and ensure mission-critical software performs reliably when failure is not an option.

• 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 catch bottlenecks before deployment.
• Build working proof-of-concept demos and code examples for customer-specific use cases.
• Run technical training sessions and deep-dive design reviews, both remotely and on-site at customer facilities.
• Pass field insights, edge cases, and feature requests directly back to our internal teams.

Qualifications

• 7-10+ years of software engineering or technical customer-facing engineering experience, with a degree in CS, CE, EE, or equivalent practical background.
• Solid development and debugging skills in C and C++.
• Strong working knowledge of Linux, sockets, and network protocols (UDP, TCP, multicast).
• Comfortable using tools like Wireshark and GDB to track down packet loss, latency spikes, or thread deadlocks.
• Able to explain technical trade-offs clearly to other engineers and project leads.
• Willing and able to travel 20–35% to customer sites.
• US Citizenship required*

Requirements

• Prior experience with RTI Connext, DDS, ROS 2, or message brokers like Kafka and MQTT.
• Experience working on defense platforms, avionics, radar, or robotics.
• Familiarity with MOSA open architecture standards (such as FACE or SOSA).
• Experience using AI developer tools (like GitHub Copilot, Claude, or ChatGPT) to speed up coding, debugging, and prototyping.
• Experience with Java, C#, or Python.
• Experience with RTOS like VxWorks or QNX.
• An active U.S. security clearance.

Benefits

• Flexible working schedule.
• Remote working + Home Office Stipend to cover the costs of working from home.
• Flexible Paid Time Off + “Real Vacation Bonus,” an additional bonus for taking more than 1-week of uninterrupted vacation.
• Annual bonus based on individual and company performance + other prizes and awards.
• We recognize employees for their achievements, offer great opportunities for career growth and development, and provide the tools they need to succeed.