Embedded Software Engineer
- Active Secret clearance
- Direct Hire at Nickerson Talent Solutions Embedded Software Engineer
- Active Secret clearance
- Direct Hire at Nickerson Talent Solutions in Lutz, Florida Posted in about 19 hours ago.
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full-time 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
- Open
OCD, GDB, JTAG/SWD
- AMD Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC or similar platforms
- Agile or waterfall development experience Direct Hire | Tampa, FL | ~5% Travel