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title: 'Embedded Lab Engineer at Real-Time Innovations'
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# Embedded Lab Engineer at Real-Time Innovations

- **Company:** Real-Time Innovations
- **Location:** Sunnyvale, CA
- **Posted:** 2026-09-10
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-11
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/rti/jobs/8192251

## Job description

As our Embedded Lab Engineer, you will be part of a team of experts building a secure real-time middleware platform with extreme performance and scalability. As part of our distributed RTI Platform Team, your role is critical in enabling and maintaining our products across various platforms and systems. This position is based at our Sunnyvale, CA Headquarters and requires you to work onsite.

✨ What You’ll Do

- Use your leadership to take our embedded lab to the next level.
- You are responsible to bring-up and maintain the embedded systems in our lab at Sunnyvale HQ. We currently support over 70 different architectures. The work involves creating and configuring bootloaders, building and configuring (embedded) kernels involving a wide range of RTOS, and integration into the automation frameworks at RTI. You work with our OS and tools partners as we discover issues with their toolchains and operating systems.
- You support your fellow platform team members, and the larger RTI development team with your platform expertise. You help debug platform specific issues. In some cases this may require adjustments to the embedded system. In other cases, you evolve the automation infrastructure.
- You ensure high availability of the embedded systems by enabling monitoring of the lab and automation.
- You plan out and execute upgrades to the embedded lab.
- You partner closely with IT and other teams as part of a cross departmental super-group.

🎯 What We’re Looking For

- You have experience with hardware setup.
- Passion for operating systems and embedded systems. Experience creating and configuring operating systems and kernels (e.g., QNX, VxWorks, Integrity, LynxOS) a plus. We don’t expect you to already know all the RTOS we currently support but you should have some experience with embedded systems (e.g. Arduino, Raspberry Pi, ARM Linux). In addition, you have strong Unix system administration skills
- Familiar with system generation and configuration, for example:
- creating and configuring bootloaders
- building and deploying Yocto images
- customizing system startup routines
- You have a good grasp of the fundamentals of Linux and have day-to-day knowledge.
- Ability to work successfully in a highly distributed team.
- US Person requirement *Due to export-control regulations, we can only consider “US persons” for this role. A “US person” is defined by federal law as a US citizen, lawful permanent resident (green card holder), refugee, or asylee. We are not able to provide visa sponsorship or transfer.*

Don’t meet every single requirement? At RTI, we are dedicated to building a fair and inclusive 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 our commitment to our workforce, [here](https://www.rti.com/company/diversity)!

💎 Nice To Have

- You have solid experience with Linux/Unix/Windows/MacOS IPv4 network configuration, solid understanding of host routing tables, some experience with subnets and VLANs. Extra credit for experience with 802.1q VLAN tagging, IPv6 and multicast.
- You have experience with infrastructure automation frameworks such as Ansible/Puppet/Chef/Salt
- You are familiar with shell scripting. We currently use python, tcl, expect, and some perl.
- You have basic C programming knowledge, and you are familiar with makefiles.

🌟 What We Offer You

- Flexible working schedule.
- Onsite working + Home Office Stipend to cover the costs of working from home.
- Flexible Paid Time Off + “Real Vacation Bonus,” an additional bonus for taking more than 1-week of uninterrupted vacation.
- Annual bonus based on individual and company performance + other prizes and awards.
- We recognize employees for their achievements, offer great opportunities for career growth and development, and provide the tools they need to succeed.

💙 How is life at RTI

- We have been certified as a Great Place to Work for seven consecutive years both in [Spain](https://greatplacetowork.es/rti/) and the [US](https://www.greatplacetowork.com/certified-company/7012031). In addition, we were listed as one of the[Best Companies for Women to Advance](https://www.rti.com/news/rti-named-parity.orgs-best-companies-for-women-to-advance-list-2021).
- We live and work by our[core values](https://www.rti.com/company/about-rti), which emphasize excellence, teamwork, and reaching your potential. Our motto is “[Enjoy the journey,](https://youtu.be/Z2Nw7K2agEE?si=4Ddw5Kqozf5NFOWi)” above all we must enjoy what we do and have fun at work. At RTI, you will work in a positive, supportive, diverse environment with a team that truly cares about you.
- We are defined by our “Working as One” culture and truly care about team’s interaction. That is why we plan trips for teams to get together in person, enjoy fun team-building activities and events, and feel more connected.

🌍 What We Do

Real-Time Innovations (RTI) is the data-streaming company for intelligent distributed systems. RTI Connext® software is the critical nervous system for over 2,000 designs across Aerospace and Defense, MedTech, Automotive, and Robotics. Connext is the only real-time data streaming platform that can both control demanding physical systems and integrate them with cloud applications. RTI helps organizations develop, deploy, and scale intelligence and physical AI from edge to cloud, faster. RTI Runs a Smarter World™. Learn more at [www.rti.com](http://www.rti.com/).

RTI is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age status as a protected veteran, or status as a qualified individual with disability.

The compensation for this role is $115,000 - $150,000 in Sunnyvale, California. The salary range displayed on this job posting reflects a minimum and maximum target. Individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Please note that this range reflects the base salary target range only, and does not include bonus, equity, or benefits.

For more information about how we collect and use your data, please see our [Privacy Notice for US Job Applicants and Employees](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hP7XWYY2N_65GNDjbHT33CcsdyLgc47_yEBJKJJyUwM/edit).

## About Real-Time Innovations

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Real-Time Innovations (RTI) provides the leading real-time data streaming platform for intelligent distributed systems, enabling autonomous and mission-critical applications across defense, automotive, medical, and industrial sectors.
- **Entity Type**: Private (privately held, headquartered in Silicon Valley)
- **Headquarters**: Sunnyvale, California, United States
- **Founded**: Not publicly available
- **Founders**: Not publicly available

## Core Business
- Primary industry: Infrastructure software for real-time data streaming and intelligent distributed systems; compliant with the Data Distribution Service (DDS®) standard.
- Target customers: B2B, Enterprise, Defense, Automotive, Medical Devices, Industrial, Aerospace, Government (e.g., NASA, Canada’s air traffic control).
- Mission: “To run a smarter world” – helping customers transform entire industries by unleashing the value of distributed real-time information.

## Products & Services
- **RTI Connext® Product Suite**: A real-time data streaming platform with AI-powered capabilities, built on a decentralized architecture that reduces latency and eliminates single points of failure. Includes:
  - **Connext Professional**: Full-featured platform for production systems.
  - **Connext Drive**: Optimized for software-defined vehicles (ISO 26262).
  - **Connext Cert**: Safety-certified for DO-178C and ISO 26262 requirements.
  - **Connext Micro**: For resource-constrained and FACE® conformant systems.
  - **Connext TSS**: Time-sensitive networking for deterministic data delivery.
- **RTI Professional Services**: Custom integration, training, and support for deploying distributed systems.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Not publicly available (revenue not disclosed; total funding not disclosed)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not publicly available
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Over 2,000 designs worldwide.
  - Software used in over 500 major defense programs, 2+ million vehicles, and 50% of the top 10 medical device companies.
  - Controls North America’s largest power plants; underlies Canada’s air traffic control and NASA’s launch control systems.
  - Recognized by Great Place To Work® with 93% of employees rating it a great place to work (2025).
  - Listed on Fortune Best Workplaces in the Bay Area™ (2022, 2024, 2025, 2026) and Fortune Best Workplaces in Technology™ (2024).

## Competitive Advantages
- **Market leadership in DDS**: RTI is the leading vendor of products compliant with the DDS standard, a proven foundation for autonomous and mission-critical systems.
- **Decentralized, zero-broker architecture**: Lower latency, higher throughput, and no single point of failure compared to broker-based solutions like MQTT and Kafka.
- **Safety certification**: Connext Cert is certified for DO-178C (aviation) and ISO 26262 (automotive), enabling deployment in the most demanding environments.
- **Proven at scale**: Deployed in over 2,000 designs across defense, automotive, medical, industrial, and aerospace – including NASA launch control and Canada’s air traffic control.

## Strategic Focus
- Accelerating the transition to **autonomous systems**, **physical AI**, and **software-defined architectures** (especially in automotive and medical robotics).
- Expanding AI-powered capabilities within the Connext platform to simplify development and integration of intelligent distributed systems.
- Strengthening edge-to-cloud data streaming and support for unreliable networks.
- Continued investment in safety-certified and FACE® conformant product lines.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: 91% of employees say it’s a great place to work (internal survey) vs. 57% at a typical US company. Rated 4.9/5 on Glassdoor.
- **Work flexibility**: Fully remote option in most positions; objective-based work with flexible scheduling.
- **Benefits**: Strong work-life integration, career development & training, equity participation, vacation bonus, and a “magical internship” program.
- **Values-driven**: Emphasis on diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging; pay equity analytics; performance-based talent management; manager training (RMC program).
- **Recognition**: Great Place To Work® certified (2025); Fortune Best Workplaces in the Bay Area™ (2026) and Technology™ (2024).

## Sources
1. [RTI Careers](https://www.rti.com/company/careers)
2. [About RTI](https://www.rti.com/company/about-rti)
3. [RTI Homepage](https://www.rti.com/en/)
4. [RTI Welcoming Workplace](https://www.rti.com/company/workplace)
5. [Great Place To Work – RTI](https://www.greatplacetowork.com/en/certified-company/7012031)

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