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Date Posted:

2025-05-20

Country:

United States of America

Location:

HIA32: Cedar Rapids, IA 400 Collins Rd NE

, Cedar Rapids, IA, 52498-0505 USA

Position Role Type:

Onsite

Security Clearance:

None/Not Required

Joining Collins Aerospace isn’t just about finding a job; it’s about embarking on a journey to redefine the future of aerospace technology.

Collins Aerospace, an RTX company, is a leader in technologically advanced and intelligent solutions for the global aerospace and defense industry. Collins Aerospace has the capabilities, comprehensive portfolio, and expertise to solve customers’ toughest challenges and to meet the demands of a rapidly evolving global market.

Collins Aerospace ART seeks candidates with proven research experience in cybersecurity to join the Cyber & Real-Time Systems team for its sites in Cork (Ireland) and Cedar Rapids (Iowa, U.S.). The successful candidate will need to prove their strong mix of academic research and applied experience in design, simulation and verification of computer architecture (at system, device and processor level), analysis and performance evaluation of heterogeneous Multi-Processor System on Chips (MPSoCs) for on-board computing systems and their related networks, and a passion for applying these skills within the connected aerospace domain.

What You Will Do:

+ Responsible for performing research oriented work

+ Definition, design and development of safe and secure fully auditable IP blocks, low-level software and solutions for mid- to low- end processing platform use cases that are usable across different Collins products ranging from FPGAs to ASIC, and custom System-on-Chip (SoC) solutions.

+ Improve run-time contention analysis and deterministic behavior in heterogeneous multi core systems to support safety workload and ease the certification process in face of modern and future aviation applications running on bare metal, Hypervisors or RTOS environments.

+ Serve as a key technical contributor for complex software development projects using languages such as C/C++, Java, Python, Rust, and others.

+ Provide subject matter expertise and competitive advantage to a multidisciplinary and international team of experts and work on design, analysis, simulation, development and/or verification of cyber-security solutions in the broad ICT domain in high assurance and security-critical systems.

+ Participate in teams of hardware, software, and systems engineers to develop, integrate, and evaluate key new software technologies.

+ Contribute towards technical strategy and business development to a growing research agenda for future aerospace systems within the Collins Aerospace applied research and technology community.

+ Execute R&D activities within an international research community, including technology development within collaborative EU research projects (e.g., Horizon Europe, SESAR, Clean Sky)

+ Responsible to partner with universities, government agencies, national labs, and professional organizations to meet organizational objectives within time and budget constraints.

+ Must be willing and able to travel 10% of time (domestic and international)

Qualifications You Must Have;

+ Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and minimum 8 years prior relevant experience **or** an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 5 years of experience

+ 3+ years experience using and implementing proof-of-concept demonstrators for mixed criticality embedded and real-time systems or DAL-A/C applications or mid/low processing solutions or heterogeneous embedded or GPUs or multicore platforms or unconventional computing architectures.

+ Previous research experience

Qualifications We Prefer:

+ Advanced Degree (PhD or Masters)

+ Knowledge of certification standards for safety critical airborne hardware & software systems in the aerospace domain (CAST-32A, DO-178C and DO-254) is highly desirable but not essential.

+ Aerospace experience

What We Offer:

Some of our competitive benefits package includes: 

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance

• Three weeks of vacation for newly hired employees

•Generous 401(k) plan that includes employer matching funds and separate employer retirement contribution, including a Lifetime Income Strategy option

•Tuition reimbursement program

•Student Loan Repayment Program

•Life insurance and disability coverage

•Optional coverages you can buy pet insurance, home and auto insurance, additional life and accident insurance, critical illness insurance, group legal, ID theft protection

•Birth, adoption, parental leave benefits

•Ovia Health, fertility, and family planning

•Adoption Assistance

•Autism Benefit

•Employee Assistance Plan, including up to 10 free counseling sessions

•Healthy You Incentives, wellness rewards program

•Doctor on Demand, virtual doctor visits

•Bright Horizons, child and elder care services

•Teladoc Medical Experts, second opinion program

• And more!

Learn More and Apply Now:

**Remote:** Employees who are working in Remote roles* will work primarily offsite (from home). An employee may be expected to travel to the site location as needed.

_*This position is remote; however, if you live within a reasonable commute of a Collins site with other colleagues you interact with, your manager will discuss whether there is a degree of onsite presence associated with this role_

The salary range for this role is 82,000 USD - 164,000 USD. The salary range provided is a good faith estimate representative of all experience levels.

RTX considers several factors when extending an offer, including but not limited to, the role, function and associated responsibilities, a candidate’s work experience, location, education/training, and key skills.

Hired applicants may be eligible for benefits, including but not limited to, medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, 401(k) match, flexible spending accounts, flexible work schedules, employee assistance program, Employee Scholar Program, parental leave, paid time off, and holidays. Specific benefits are dependent upon the specific business unit as well as whether or not the position is covered by a collective-bargaining agreement.

Hired applicants may be eligible for annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs depending on the level of the position and whether or not it is covered by a collective-bargaining agreement. Payments under these annual programs are not guaranteed and are dependent upon a variety of factors including, but not limited to, individual performance, business unit performance, and/or the company’s performance.

This role is a U.S.-based role. If the successful candidate resides in a U.S. territory, the appropriate pay structure and benefits will apply.

RTX anticipates the application window closing approximately 40 days from the date the notice was posted. However, factors such as candidate flow and business necessity may require RTX to shorten or extend the application window.

_RTX is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or veteran status, or any other applicable state or federal protected class. RTX provides affirmative action in employment for qualified Individuals with a Disability and Protected Veterans in compliance with Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act and the Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act._

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