Senior Specialist, Software Engineering
L3HARRIS Technologies
Salt Lake City, UT · Posted October 21, 2026
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About the job
Job Title: Senior Specialist, Software Engineering
Job ID: Req ID 46273
Job Location: Salt Lake City, UT
Job Schedule: 9/80: Employees work 9 out of every 14 days - totaling 80 hours worked - and have every other Friday off
Job Description:
Embedded Board Support Package (BSP) Software Engineer - C++ with a background and experience in embedded real-time software development. This position requires an individual to support existing, new and next generation military communications applications. An engineer in this position is responsible for providing responses to bid and proposals, deriving software requirements, creating designs and adding features to current designs and developing applications implementing these requirements.
Essential Functions:
Embedded software engineering experience
Configuring and patching U-boot and Linux for an embedded system
Configuring the root file system for an embedded system
Linux device trees
Linux boot process on an embedded system
BASH scripting
Significant C++ experience
Qualifications:
Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 6 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 4 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 10 years of prior related experience.
Preferred Skills:
PetaLinux Experience
Yocto Experience
VxWorks Experience
Linux driver development
Buildroot Experience
jffs2, UBI, and ubifs Experience
Busybox Experience
Board bring-up / JTAG Experience
Experience debugging hardware
Design and implement software for embedded devices from requirements to production using C and C++ in a cross compiled environment
Assess third party and open source software license documentation
Familiarity with code revision management tools such as Git/Bitbucket/Clearcase.
DoD SECRET security clearance or be qualified to obtain one
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