Senior Software Engineer, Platforms

As a Platform Engineer, you will be part of a team of experts building a secure real-time middleware platform with extreme performance and scalability. As part of our distributed RTI Platform Team, your role is critical in enabling and maintaining our products to support various platforms and systems. 

✨ What You’ll Do / Responsibilities

• Set up and maintain the configuration of the toolchains and embedded systems that are used to support new ports, production software release and patches.
• Perform system administration tasks as well as creation and configuration of RTOS kernels and development environments.
• Ensure the RTI Connext platform runs efficiently across diverse architectures and platforms by integrating, automating builds, and porting OS abstraction layers.
• Tune and optimize RTI’s real-time middleware for maximum performance on target platforms.
• Lead AUTOSAR ports, contribute to RTI’s AUTOSAR product line, and develop integrations for Classic and Adaptive Platforms.
• Contribute to AUTOSAR-based reference architecture and collaborate on safety and security compliance efforts.
• Work closely with performance testing teams, integration partners, and RTOS vendors to enhance platform support.
• Assist RTI’s development, support, and field engineering teams in debugging platform-specific issues and benchmarking to secure key customer deals.

🎯 What We’re Looking For / Requirements

• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, with 5-10 years of programming experience.
• Strong skills in Embedded C, low-level OS concepts (sockets, threads, semaphores), and debugging on real-time operating systems.
• Experience with AUTOSAR development platforms, including at least one major vendor’s Classic stack.
• Background in automotive architecture domains (e.g., body, chassis, powertrain, infotainment, safety) and familiarity with automotive microcontrollers.
• Proficiency in boot loaders, initialization code, reading schematics, and debugging embedded devices.
• Ability to work effectively in a highly distributed team and tackle complex technical challenges.

💎 Nice To Have / Preferred Skills

• Creating and configuring RTOS kernels.
• Performance characterization and optimization.
• Scripting languages, build infrastructure, and hardware setup.

🌟 What We Offer You 

• Flexible working schedule. 
• Remote working + Home Office Stipend to cover the costs of working from home.
• Flexible Paid Time Off + “Real Vacation Bonus,” an additional bonus for taking more than 1-week of uninterrupted vacation.
• Annual bonus based on individual and company performance + other prizes and awards. 
• We recognize employees for their achievements, offer great opportunities for career growth and development, and provide the tools they need to succeed.
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💙 How is life at RTI

• We have been certified as a Great Place to Work for six consecutive years both in Spain and the US. In addition, we were listed as one of the Best Companies for Women to Advance. 
• We live and work by our core values, which emphasize excellence, teamwork, and reaching your potential. Our motto is “Enjoy the journey,” above all we must enjoy what we do and have fun at work. At RTI, you will work in a positive, supportive, diverse environment with a team that truly cares about you.
• We are defined by our “Working as One” culture and truly care about team’s interaction. That is why we plan trips for teams to get together in person, enjoy fun team-building activities and events, and feel more connected.

🌍 What We Do / About RTI

Real-Time Innovations (RTI) is the largest software framework provider for smart machines and real-world systems. Our software runs the largest power plants on the continent, connects perception to control in over 200 autonomous vehicles, drives the new generation of medical robotics, controls hyperloop and flying cars, and provides 24x7 medical intelligence to hospital patients and emergency victims. We are the best positioned small company in the world to create the very real future of intelligent, distributed systems. RTI truly makes the world run better in many ways!

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