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Date Posted: 2026-09-21 Country: United States of America Location: US-MA-CAMBRIDGE-BBN05 ~ 10 & 50 Moulton St ~ MOULTON B5 Position Role Type: Hybrid U.S. Citizen, U.S. Person, or Immigration Status Requirements: U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are authorized to access information under this program/contract. Security Clearance Type: DoD Clearance: Secret Security Clearance Status: Active and existing security clearance required after day 1 At RTX, the world s largest aerospace and defense company, 185,000 great minds are united by purpose and inspired to make a difference solving the world’s most complex problems. With our three market leading businesses, world-class operations and investments in research and development, we offer capabilities and opportunity no one else can. Together, we push the boundaries of known science and find new ways to connect and protect our world. Join us and help shape the future of aerospace and defense. For over 70 years, RTX BBN Technologies (BBN) has solved challenging problems through research, exploration, development, and prototyping. BBN’s Non-Kinetic Capabilities and Technologies (NCT) team leverages computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, math, and physics to tackle customer challenges in electromagnetic warfare (EW), communications, cybersecurity, cyberspace operations, networking, and RF domains for the U.S. Department of War (DoW) and Intelligence Community (IC) customers. BBN is looking for creative, entrepreneurial, and highly motivated, scientists, engineers, and developers who want to create, contribute to, and grow cutting-edge research projects for system development, including advanced networking, offensive and defensive cyber, and EW operations. What You Will Do Develop next-generation networking, cyber, and EW capabilities. Create or investigate new types of cyber physical systems and work with both commercial and prototype hardware platforms. Collaborate with cross-disciplinary teams to solve challenging problems and deliver actionable results. Operationalize software through extensive testing, documentation, and integration with other systems. Participate in laboratory and field tests to collect and analyze data, test new capabilities, and perform demonstrations. Overnight travel required for certain projects. Qualifications You Must Have Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and minimum 5 years prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 3 years of experience or in absence of a degree, 9 years of relevant experience. The ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government issued security clearance is required. Experience programming in both C/C and Python, with experience in modern Python service development, development tools, and environments, with testing discipline for code and distributed systems. Experience with event-driven, message-bus architectures, such as Kafka or Redpanda, as well as publish-subscribe services. Experience with integration with third-party tooling, using REST and RPC, as well as service integration and contract discipline. Experience with or demonstrable ability to pick up diverse technologies and concepts, such as Model Context Protocol (MCP), relational data modeling, domain-specific languages, etc. Qualifications We Prefer Infrastructure-as-code, using Ansible, Kubernetes, and similar tools. Linux system experience at both user and kernel level. Virtualization, containers and orchestration, including hypervisors and Docker. Experience setting up and running testbeds/integration environments, including logging, metrics, and security information and event management (SIEM) tools. Mobile/Android platform experience, including use of Android Debug Bridge (adb), device provisioning, versioning, and images. An understanding of or experience with cyber exploit tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs). What We Offer Whether you’re just starting out on your career journey or are an experienced professional, we offer a robust total rewards package with compensation; healthcare, wellness, retirement, and work/life benefits; career development and recognition programs. Some of the benefits we offer include parental (including paternal) leave, flexible work schedules, achievement awards, educational assistance and child/adult backup care. • Relocation Assistance available • This position is onsite at our Cambridge, Mass headquarters To help you achieve your goals, BBN will provide: A strong leadership team well-versed in government R&D. A collaborative and collegial environment to push state-of-the-art research. Technically competent pool of research scientists who are willing to mentor, listen, and help you refine your research vision and goals. Business development, programmatic, contracting, finance, and HR support. Access, through RTX, to opportunities that help transition your research and ultimately see it fielded. As part of our commitment to maintaining a secure hiring process, candidates may be asked to attend select steps of the interview process in-person at one of our office locations, regardless of whether the role is designated as on-site, hybrid or remote. The salary range for this role is 86,800 USD - 165,200 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. Privacy Policy and Terms: Click on this link to read the Policy and Terms

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US-MA-CAMBRIDGE-BBN05 ~ 10 & 50 Moulton St ~ MOULTON B5 Position Role Type:
Hybrid U.S. Citizen, U.S. Person, or Immigration Status Requirements:
U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are authorized to access information under this program/contract. Security Clearance Type:
Active and existing security clearance required after day 1
Develop next-generation networking, cyber, and EW capabilities.
Create or investigate new types of cyber physical systems and work with both commercial and prototype hardware platforms.
Collaborate with cross-disciplinary teams to solve challenging problems and deliver actionable results.
Operationalize software through extensive testing, documentation, and integration with other systems.
Participate in laboratory and field tests to collect and analyze data, test new capabilities, and perform demonstrations.
Overnight travel required for certain projects.
Qualifications You Must Have
The ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government issued security clearance is required.
Experience programming in both C/C and Python, with experience in modern Python service development, development tools, and environments, with testing discipline for code and distributed systems.
Experience with event-driven, message-bus architectures, such as Kafka or Redpanda, as well as publish-subscribe services.
Experience with integration with third-party tooling, using REST and RPC, as well as service integration and contract discipline.
Experience with or demonstrable ability to pick up diverse technologies and concepts, such as Model Context Protocol (MCP), relational data modeling, domain-specific languages, etc.
Qualifications We Prefer
Infrastructure-as-code, using Ansible, Kubernetes, and similar tools.
Linux system experience at both user and kernel level.
Virtualization, containers and orchestration, including hypervisors and Docker.
Experience setting up and running testbeds/integration environments, including logging, metrics, and security information and event management (SIEM) tools.
Mobile/Android platform experience, including use of Android Debug Bridge (adb), device provisioning, versioning, and images.
An understanding of or experience with cyber exploit tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs).
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