Application Engineer (Distributed Systems)

Location: US Remote, with travel to customer sites 20–35% and technical sessions conducted remotely and on-site. US Citizenship required.

Company

Real-Time Innovations develops RTI Connext, a real-time data-streaming platform for intelligent distributed systems across aerospace and defense, MedTech, automotive, and robotics.

What you will do

• Design and prototype distributed systems with customer engineers using RTI Connext.
• Debug network, performance, and concurrency issues across customer codebases and embedded environments.
• Review architectures, configurations, and code to identify bottlenecks before deployment.
• Build proof-of-concept demos and customer-specific code examples.
• Deliver technical training and deep-dive design reviews remotely and at customer facilities.
• Share field insights, edge cases, and feature requests with internal teams.

Requirements

• 7–10+ years of software engineering or technical customer-facing engineering experience, plus a degree in computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• Strong development and debugging skills in C and C++.
• Strong working knowledge of Linux, sockets, and network protocols including UDP, TCP, and multicast.
• Experience using Wireshark and GDB to investigate packet loss, latency spikes, and thread deadlocks.
• Ability to explain technical trade-offs clearly to engineers and project leads.
• Willingness and ability to travel 20–35% to customer sites.
• US Citizenship is required due to applicable laws, government regulations, and contract specifications.

Nice to have

• Experience with RTI Connext, DDS, ROS 2, Kafka, or MQTT.
• Experience with defense platforms, avionics, radar, or robotics.
• Familiarity with MOSA open architecture standards such as FACE or SOSA.
• Experience using AI developer tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude, or ChatGPT.
• Experience with Java, C#, Python, VxWorks, or QNX.
• Active U.S. security clearance.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible working schedule and remote work with a home office stipend.
• Flexible paid time off and an additional bonus for taking more than one uninterrupted week of vacation.
• Annual bonus based on individual and company performance, plus other awards.
• Career growth opportunities, development support, and tools for success.
• Supportive, diverse workplace centered on excellence, teamwork, and employee development.
• Periodic in-person team trips, team-building activities, and events.