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Senior Mission Critical Software Engineer

Draper

$82,300 - $205,750
Sep 25, 2025
Cambridge, MA, US
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Draper is looking for a highly skilled senior software engineer to develop high performance solutions for resource constrained targets, designing and developing next-generation resilient, fault tolerant, real-time, highly reliable software solutions in various application domains.

Requirements

  • Excellent development and troubleshooting skills on embedded targets.
  • Excellent knowledge of OS coding techniques٫ IP protocols٫ interfaces and hardware subsystems.
  • Expertise in software development for real-time systems.
  • Mastery of high level development languages (e.g. C/C++, Rust)
  • Knowledge of software configuration management tools٫ defect tracking tools٫ and peer review processes.
  • Experience with UML/SysML.
  • Experience with in-circuit emulators, JTAG debuggers and laboratory test equipment.

Responsibilities

  • Designs algorithms using modern theory and proven techniques.
  • Develops embedded software based on prototype algorithms with supervision.
  • Analyzes designs to demonstrate performance and functionality.
  • Develops and executes software tests to check compliance with requirements.
  • Evaluates results to establish problem causes and develop solutions for inefficient or problems.
  • Prepares technical data, procedures, reports, drawings, manuals, and other required documentation.
  • Drive solutions to complex problems with limited direction – contribute to requirements development and architecture solution ideation.

Other

  • Communicates with customers and stakeholders to establish requirements and describe the design and deliverables.
  • Ability to take responsibility for subset of engineering scope.
  • Identify program/system-level technical risks and develop and execute mitigation strategies for them.
  • Actively mentor less experienced engineers.
  • Applicants selected for this position will be required to obtain and maintain a government security clearance. Active Secret clearance is requuired.