Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. RTX is an aerospace and defense company delivering avionics, connectivity, and digital solutions for aviation customers worldwide. The Principal Software Engineer will join the Aviation Intelligence team to design and build real-time streaming, inference, AI/ML, and large-scale data systems while contributing to planning and communication of technical work.
Responsibilities
- Design, build and code critical projects — real-time data streaming and inference, high-throughput data availability, AI/ML, and turning raw data into real insight — while helping plan and communicate the work along the way
Skills
- Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and minimum 8 years prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 5 years of experience
- Must be authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship now or in the future. RTX will not offer sponsorship for this position
- Intermediate or better knowledge of Rust
- Python experience
- Experience with Unix-style systems (ability to do basic administration, and manage work upon)
- Hands-on Kubernetes experience operating production workloads
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitLab, GitHub Actions, or similar)
- Ability to work within an agile development style
- Experience with AWS (EKS, IAM, VPCs, networking)
- Experience with Terraform for infrastructure as code
- Experience with Kafka
- Experience with Nix
- Solid understanding of distributed systems, reliability, and scaling
- Experience with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Thanos, etc.)
- Familiarity with Dagster, Airflow or other modern ETL orchestration tools
- Background in ML/AI systems in production (MLOps)
- Experience optimizing infrastructure for performance and cost
- Familiarity with Iceberg, Spark, Elasticsearch and other large-scale data processing systems
- Experience working in hybrid infrastructure environments (cloud + on-prem Kubernetes)
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Three weeks of vacation for newly hired employees
- Generous 401(k) plan that includes employer matching funds and separate employer retirement contribution, including a Lifetime Income Strategy option
- Tuition reimbursement program
- Student Loan Repayment Program
- Life insurance and disability coverage
- Optional coverages you can buy: pet insurance, home and auto insurance, additional life and accident insurance, critical illness insurance, group legal, ID theft protection
- Birth, adoption, parental leave benefits
- Ovia Health, fertility, and family planning
- Adoption Assistance
- Autism Benefit
- Employee Assistance Plan, including up to 10 free counseling sessions
- Healthy You Incentives, wellness rewards program
- Doctor on Demand, virtual doctor visits
- Bright Horizons, child and elder care services
- Teladoc Medical Experts, second opinion program
- Remote: Employees who are working in Remote roles will work primarily offsite (from home).
- Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, 401(k) match, flexible spending accounts, flexible work schedules, employee assistance program, Employee Scholar Program, parental leave, paid time off, and holidays
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