Principal Software Engineer, C++

RTX

full-time

Posted on: 9/19/2025

Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States

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💰 $101,000 - $203,000 per year

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About the role

The BMS mission is to provide world class Radar and Command and Control (C2) Software for our customers’ wide array of Surveillance and Warning Systems
Design, develop, and test software based on software trouble reports in an agile, collaborative environment
Deliver build to site twice a year
Work collaboratively with systems and SI&T engineers to analyze, implement, and test system modification requests to the existing system baseline
Align to the core Agile and DevSecOps principles of collaborative operation across the entire value stream, delivering high-frequency, high-quality deployments to our customers
Participate as a Principal Software Development Engineer in the Battle Management Software (BMS) Department
Work onsite in Fort Wayne, IN and be part of on-site team; potential travel to customer sites for installs and testing

Typically requires a Bachelor’s degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM)
A minimum of 8 years of prior relevant software development experience
Experience with software development, test, and/or integration using C, C++ or Ada
Experience with Script languages (C shell, Perl)
Experience using debugging tools to quickly identify and fix software bugs, as well as optimize code for performance
Active and transferrable final Secret U.S. government issued security clearance is required prior to start date
U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance
Prior experience on XBR, AN/TPY-2, COBRA DANE, QEWR, UEWR, SRP or other current missile defense programs (preferred)
Experience working in Agile environments such as scrum, scrum at scale, SAFe and DevSecOps (preferred)
Experience with tools such as Atlassian Suite (e.g., Bitbucket/Artifactory, Confluence, Crucible, Fisheye, Jira), Jenkins, Eclipse, and Ansible (preferred)
Experience working in a continuous integration/continuous development environment; experience with CI/CD pipelines (preferred)
Knowledge of Redhat and Linux Operating Systems (preferred)
Potential to travel to customer site (up to 50%) for software build install and test (preferred)
Ability to work in a fast paced, dynamic environment with time-critical requirements (preferred)
Ability to coach and delegate work to lower-level professionals (preferred)