Software Engineer II (Onsite)

Date Posted: 2026-08-11 | Location: Goleta, CA | Onsite role | U.S. citizenship required to obtain and maintain a DoD Secret security clearance; active clearance required after day one.

About the Role

Join RTX, the world’s largest aerospace and defense company, and collaborate with leading minds to solve complex problems, advance your skills, and create a safer, more connected world. This position involves working in an advanced product development team environment with systems, firmware, electrical, and software engineers in a fast-paced, dynamic setting. Occasional business-related travel is required.

Responsibilities

• Participate in collaborative, cross-disciplined integrated product teams using agile system and software development operations to plan, specify, design, test, and integrate complex software and systems solutions.
• Innovate creative implementations of new products and technologies, from architecture and design through integration, lab test, and field test.
• Collaborate effectively with other disciplines and senior technical staff to produce planning and technical work products for internal customers, forming original solutions to complex problems.
• Develop software requirements and FPGA-level interface requirements derived from system-level requirements, including associated architectures, simulations, analysis, and laboratory testing.
• Work with embedded microprocessor design, system-on-a-chip software design, FPGAs, high-speed transceivers, DDR, flash memories, and perform signal analyses, signal generation, and signal processing.

Requirements

• Degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM).
• Experience in software design, integration, and test utilizing C/C++.
• Experience in software engineering related to firmware/product development or similar.
• U.S. citizenship required to obtain and maintain a U.S. government-issued security clearance (DoD Secret).

Preferred Qualifications

• Current transferable DoD Secret security clearance.
• Experience with embedded microprocessor design, system-on-a-chip software design, FPGAs, high-speed transceivers, DDR, flash memories, block diagrams, signal analyses, signal generation, and signal processing.
• Experience developing real-time applications on embedded platforms (bare metal, embedded Linux, Windows).
• Knowledge of Electronic Warfare (EA/ES), Radar, or Secure Communications technologies.
• Experience with .NET C# using WPF and MVVM.
• Familiarity with tools: Visual Studio, Vitis, TortoiseSVN, Jenkins, Jira, Collaborator.
• Lab experience in product testing using logic analyzers, high-speed oscilloscopes, signal generators, and system-on-chip debugging tools.
• Experience with interfaces and bus standards such as VME, PCI, PCIe, VPX, or Gb Ethernet.
• Experience across all phases of the software lifecycle, from architecture to system integration and post-delivery maintenance.
• Experience with software algorithm development and machine learning.
• Experience in Agile development processes.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Life insurance, short-term and long-term disability.
• 401(k) match.
• Flexible spending accounts.
• Flexible work schedules.
• Employee assistance program.
• Employee Scholar Program (tuition assistance).
• Parental leave.
• Paid time off and holidays.
• Annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs (dependent on role and performance).

Pay

The salary range for this role is $75,800 – $144,200 USD. The range is representative of all experience levels and considers factors such as role, responsibilities, work experience, location, education/training, and key skills.