Senior Real-Time Application Engineer - Defense

Real-Time Innovations; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Home office stipend

Flexible PTO

Annual bonus

Job summary

Real-Time Innovations (RTI) seeks an Application Engineer to join the Professional Services team. You will tackle distributed systems challenges, optimize microsecond-level data flows, and ensure mission-critical software performs reliably in defense and aerospace contexts.

You will work directly with customer engineers to prototype distributed systems, debug across embedded environments, and perform design reviews. Travel 20-35% is expected; a U.S. citizen is required by law.

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.
• Willing and able to travel 20-35% to customer sites.
• Due to applicable laws, government regulations and contract specifications, we are required to fill this position only with an individual who qualifies as a \

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

C/C++

Linux

Networking

GDB

Wireshark

RTOS concepts

Travel

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/CE/EE

Tools

RTI Connext

DDS

ROS 2

Kafka

MQTT

Job description

Real-Time Innovations (RTI) seeks an Application Engineer to join the Professional Services team. You will tackle distributed systems challenges, optimize microsecond-level data flows, and ensure mission-critical software performs reliably in defense and aerospace contexts.

You will work directly with customer engineers to prototype distributed systems, debug across embedded environments, and perform design reviews. Travel 20-35% is expected; a U.S. citizen is required by law.