Senior Application Engineer

Are you an enthusiastic, talented, and experienced software engineer with a passion for solving complex technical problems? Do you enjoy thinking out of the box and facing new challenges? If you love working with other engineers, interacting with customers, solving real-world software mysteries, and like the opportunity to tackle tough technology problems, this is your role!

We’re looking for someone to be a critical member of the team that ensures RTI customers succeed with Connext.

Read more about being an Application Engineer at RTI here!

Responsibilities:

• Engage with our customers to provide technical guidance, assistance, and prototype proof-of-concept projects
• Provide onsite and/or remote technical training, configuration/code review, architecture and design guidance, debugging of complex distributed systems and more.
• Triage customer issues both onsite and remotely, and find timely solutions.
• Work with our development team and Product Management to help improve our products.
• Ensure customer success with RTI technology.

Skills & Experience:

• Degree in Computer Science, EE/CE, or related field (Advanced degree preferred). 
• 5+ years of work experience.
• Solid understanding of operating system and networking fundamentals.
• Experience writing and debugging code.
• Excellent debugging skills in a wide variety of technologies, networking protocols, operating systems and programming languages.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Positive, proactive, and results oriented - great at solving problems.
• Exceptional team player who collaborates well and can also work independently in a deadline driven environment.
• Interested in working directly with customers to ensure their success.
• Intellectually curious with a desire and ability to master new technologies.
• Ability to work successfully in a highly distributed team.
• Must be able to travel to work onsite with our customers.

Nice to have:

• Experience with DDS.
• Experience with distributed systems.
• Experience with RTOS’s.
• Experience with messaging technologies (e.g. MQTT, Apache Kafka, etc).

Don’t meet every single requirement? At RTI, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t perfectly align with all qualifications in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway! You may be just the right candidate for this or another one of our open roles. Learn more about RTI’s Diversity initiatives here!

What we do:

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 leads the world market for software that connects real-world devices. We solve some of the greatest challenges in technology. Our mission is to transform industries: automotive, medical, power, defense, and control. Few small companies can truly claim to make the world run better like RTI. Come help make a real difference!

What we offer you:

• Flexible working schedule 
• Remote working + Home Office Stipend to cover the costs of working from home
• Private health and dental insurance 
• 25 days of paid vacation + “Real Vacation Bonus”, an additional bonus for taking more than 1-week vacation increments 
• Annual bonus based on individual and company performance + other prizes and awards to recognize hard work 
• Check out out other benefits here!

How is life at RTI: 

• We live and work by our core values (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. 
• We recognize employees for their achievements, offer great opportunities for career growth and development, and provide the tools they need to succeed
• We have been certified as a Great Place to Work for four consecutive years both in Spain and the US. At RTI, you will work in a positive, supportive, diverse environment with a team that truly cares about you.
• We promote face-to-face interaction by holding our Company Kick Off (CKO) once a year, where we all meet in our Silicon Valley headquarters for a week full of team building,  employee recognition, and fun activities. We also have quarterly Team Weeks, where all members from related teams get together in one of our office locations (Spain, California or Colorado), for a week of meetings, training, fun events and shared experiences.