Mid-Level Embedded Software Engineer (Clearance Required)

Join a team developing security critical embedded software and firmware for high assurance cryptographic systems supporting the U.S. Department of Defense, NATO, and allied partners. This is a hands on engineering role focused on secure embedded development, C and Rust, cryptographic systems, and software that goes through formal security certification. What You’ll Work On • Develop embedded software primarily in C and Rust • Work on cryptographic and key management systems • Support secure communications, remote rekey, and lifecycle management • Modernize legacy C codebases and develop Rust based embedded solutions • Design security boundaries and trusted services • Support NSA High Assurance certification activities • Develop requirements, architecture, interface, and design documentation • Perform unit, integration, acceptance, and hardware in the loop testing • Work closely with systems, hardware, security, and test engineers Required • Active U.S. Government Secret clearance • U.S. Citizenship • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or equivalent experience • 5+ years of embedded software development in C and Rust • Low level embedded development and debugging • ARM processors and SoC platforms • Firmware and hardware/software integration • Strong understanding of memory management, concurrency, and deterministic embedded behavior Preferred • 8+ years of embedded or firmware development • Rust in constrained embedded environments • NSA High Assurance, RMF, or similar DoD security frameworks • Cryptographic systems, key management, secure boot, or trust architectures • OpenOCD, GDB, JTAG/SWD • AMD Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC or similar platforms • Agile or waterfall development experience Direct Hire | Tampa, FL | ~5% Travel