Specialist Software Engineer 1
L3HARRIS Technologies
Salt Lake City, UT · Posted October 23, 2026
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Job Title: Specialist, Software Engineering
Job Code: 46683
Job Location: Salt Lake City, UT
Job Schedule: 9/80 9/80: Employees work 9 out of every 14 days – totaling 80 hours worked – and have every other Friday off
Job Description:
We are seeking a Board Support Package (BSP) software engineer with experience in embedded real-time software development. This position supports existing and next-generation military communications software while working close to hardware, drivers, boot code, RTOS, interfaces, and platform integration. An engineer in this position is responsible for creating designs, adding features to current designs, and developing operating system configurations.
Essential Functions:
Configuring and patching U-boot and Linux for an embedded system
Configuring the root file system for an embedded system
Configuring Linux device trees
Linux boot process on an embedded system
BASH scripting
Qualifications:
Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 4 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 2 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 8 years of prior related experience.
Preferred Additional Skills:
Minimum of 4 years embedded software engineering experience
C++ experience
Experience or familiarity in
PetaLinux
Yocto
VxWorks
Linux driver development
Buildroot
jffs2, UBI, and ubifs
Busybox
Board bring-up / JTAG
Experience debugging hardware
Experience with Linux kernel/device drivers
Design and implement software for embedded devices from requirements to production using C and C++ in a cross compiled environment
Third party and open source software license documentation
Familiarity with code revision management tools such as BitBucket
DoD SECRET security clearance or be qualified to obtain one
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