Senior Customer-Facing Real-Time Systems Engineer

Real-Time Innovations (RTI); Washington, Baltimore (District of Columbia, MD); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote working + Home Office Stipend

Flexible Paid Time Off

Annual bonus

Job summary

Real-Time Innovations (RTI) is seeking an experienced software engineer who thrives at the intersection of distributed systems, debugging, and direct customer engagement. You will design and prototype distributed systems with RTI Connext, debug across embedded environments, and review architectures with customer teams.

The role requires 7–10+ years in software or customer-facing engineering, strong C/C++ skills, Linux networking, and willingness to travel up to 35% to customer sites.

Qualifications

• 7–10+ years of software engineering or technical customer-facing experience with CS, CE, EE degree or equivalent
• Strong development and debugging skills in C and C++
• Linux, sockets, and network protocols (UDP, TCP, multicast) experience
• Proficiency with Wireshark and GDB for diagnosing issues
• Ability to explain technical trade-offs to engineers and leads
• Willing to travel 20–35% to customer sites
• U.S. Citizenship required (per govt. regulations)

Responsibilities

• Design and prototype distributed systems with RTI Connext in collaboration with customer engineers
• Debug network, performance, and concurrency issues across customer codebases and embedded environments
• Review customer architecture, configuration, and code to identify bottlenecks before deployment
• Create PoC demos and code examples for customer use cases
• Lead technical trainings and design reviews, remotely and on-site at customer facilities
• Relay field insights and feature requests back to internal teams

Skills

C and C++ development

Linux networking

Wireshark and GDB

Customer-facing engineering

Travel 20–35%

US Citizenship

RTI Connext

DDS

ROS 2

Kafka

MQTT

RTOS (VxWorks/QNX)

Java

C#

Python

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS, CE, EE, or equivalent

Tools

RTI Connext

DDS

ROS 2

Kafka

MQTT

VxWorks

QNX

Job description

Real-Time Innovations (RTI) is seeking an experienced software engineer who thrives at the intersection of distributed systems, debugging, and direct customer engagement. You will design and prototype distributed systems with RTI Connext, debug across embedded environments, and review architectures with customer teams.

The role requires 7–10+ years in software or customer-facing engineering, strong C/C++ skills, Linux networking, and willingness to travel up to 35% to customer sites.