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SR C++ Embedded Engineer with Security Clearance
HKA EnterprisesAurora, CO🇺🇸United StatesPosted 5 Aug 2026
Quick Overview
Work Type
Hybrid
Schedule
Temporary/Casual
Level
Mid Senior
Job Description
Job Description
What You Will Do
• Architecting, designing, implementing, testing, and debugging integrated embedded real-time software within heterogenous systems composed of firmware and hardware.
• Working within a cross-discipline team to define, refine, and improve product concept, implementation, testability, and guaranteed, measurable quality.
• Teaching, coaching, and mentoring less experienced staff.
• Contributing to proposals as well as preliminary and critical design reviews.
• Ability to obtain program access. What You Will Learn
• Working across a product line in collaboration with other teams. Qualifications You Must Have
• Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and a minimum of 8 years of prior relevant experience.
• Experience including at least two of the following: Embedded C++ Software, Embedded Software Security, Software Architecture Design and Implementation.
• Experience using embedded Real Time Operating Systems (RTOS) (e.g., Green Hills, Integrity, Wind River VxWorks, Linux, etc.)
• Experience developing complex systems involving the integration of hardware, firmware, and software
• Active and transferrable final Secret U.S. government issued security clearance is required prior to start date with the ability to obtain program access after start. Qualifications We Prefer
• Familiarity with rate monotonic theory, practice, and limitations.
• Familiarity with layered architectural principles, and their limitations.
• Familiarity with reading electrical schematics and relating it to software function.
• Familiarity with reading firmware source like VHDL or Verilog.
• Familiarity with assembly language in at least one processor/controller family.
• Experience using lab instruments like power-supplies, digital multi-meters, oscilloscopes, and logic analyzers.
• Experience with developing device drivers for bare-metal and/or OS applications.
• Experience leading engineering teams in delivering systems (of various size) involving the integration of hardware and software.
What You Will Do
• Architecting, designing, implementing, testing, and debugging integrated embedded real-time software within heterogenous systems composed of firmware and hardware.
• Working within a cross-discipline team to define, refine, and improve product concept, implementation, testability, and guaranteed, measurable quality.
• Teaching, coaching, and mentoring less experienced staff.
• Contributing to proposals as well as preliminary and critical design reviews.
• Ability to obtain program access. What You Will Learn
• Working across a product line in collaboration with other teams. Qualifications You Must Have
• Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and a minimum of 8 years of prior relevant experience.
• Experience including at least two of the following: Embedded C++ Software, Embedded Software Security, Software Architecture Design and Implementation.
• Experience using embedded Real Time Operating Systems (RTOS) (e.g., Green Hills, Integrity, Wind River VxWorks, Linux, etc.)
• Experience developing complex systems involving the integration of hardware, firmware, and software
• Active and transferrable final Secret U.S. government issued security clearance is required prior to start date with the ability to obtain program access after start. Qualifications We Prefer
• Familiarity with rate monotonic theory, practice, and limitations.
• Familiarity with layered architectural principles, and their limitations.
• Familiarity with reading electrical schematics and relating it to software function.
• Familiarity with reading firmware source like VHDL or Verilog.
• Familiarity with assembly language in at least one processor/controller family.
• Experience using lab instruments like power-supplies, digital multi-meters, oscilloscopes, and logic analyzers.
• Experience with developing device drivers for bare-metal and/or OS applications.
• Experience leading engineering teams in delivering systems (of various size) involving the integration of hardware and software.
Skills
Assembly
C++
LESS
VHDL
Verilog
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