Mission-Critical Embedded Rust Engineer

Nickerson Talent Solutions; Tampa (FL); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

5% Annual Bonus

Relocation Assistance

17 Paid Holidays

401(k) with 4% Company Match

86% Employer-Paid Medical Coverage

Direct Hire Opportunity

Work on cutting-edge embedded defense

Excellent career growth with a rapidly

Job summary

Nickerson Talent Solutions (NTS) seeks an Embedded Rust Software Engineer to join a defense engineering team focused on mission‑critical embedded systems and secure communications technologies.

This role emphasizes hands-on C and Rust in embedded, real-time, resource-constrained environments, modernizing legacy C to Rust, and collaboration across software, hardware, firmware, and cybersecurity teams. Onsite in Tampa, FL with clear advancement opportunities.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of embedded software development experience.
• Proficient in C and Rust.
• Active U.S. Government Secret Security Clearance.
• Experience with ARM processors, embedded systems, or SoCs.
• Hardware-near software development experience.
• Bachelor's degree in CS/CE/SE/EE.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop embedded software using C and Rust.
• Modernize existing C code by migrating to Rust.
• Develop software for embedded processors, ARM-based systems, and SoCs.
• Integrate software with firmware and hardware.
• Troubleshoot low-level hardware, memory, and processor issues.
• Develop and execute software testing.
• Create technical documentation and maintain configuration control.
• Collaborate with software, hardware, firmware, systems, and cybersecurity teams.

Skills

C

Rust

ARM processors

Embedded systems

SoCs

No_std

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or Electrical Engineering

Tools

OpenOCD

GDB

Job description

Nickerson Talent Solutions (NTS) seeks an Embedded Rust Software Engineer to join a defense engineering team focused on mission‑critical embedded systems and secure communications technologies.

This role emphasizes hands-on C and Rust in embedded, real-time, resource-constrained environments, modernizing legacy C to Rust, and collaboration across software, hardware, firmware, and cybersecurity teams. Onsite in Tampa, FL with clear advancement opportunities.