Software Engineer - Customer-oriented, Aerospace, Embedded (Field Application Engineer)

This exceptional career opportunity allows you to use your software engineering and embedded skills in a customer-focused environment.

What will you love about being a field application engineer at Rapita?

This role is ideal for an engineer who enjoys hands‑on problem solving, working directly with customers, and using their expertise to help deliver real aerospace projects.

With opportunities to travel worldwide, you will be supporting major names like Rolls-Royce, Airbus, Boeing and Collins Aerospace to perform dynamic software analysis of critical systems and leading the way in high-tech software automation.

You will get an insider view of numerous space and aerospace programs through your work in a talented and enthusiastic team, using a mix of hardware and software platforms including cutting-edge SoCs, and optimising the performance of Rapita’s tools in challenging environments.

What will you be doing?

Your team is the technical interface to our customers; you will be involved in a large variety of specialist customer-facing software engineering tasks.

Your main responsibilities include:

• Providing expert integration services, consultancy and training for high-profile customers around the world.
• Technical pre-sales, helping our customers to understand the benefits of our technology, providing demonstrations and proof of concept work.
• Helping our customers to use our tools, offering prompt, accurate and positive responses to customer support requests.
• Influencing product development by identifying customer needs and helping to translate these needs into commercial tools.
• Working on a wide variety of processors, compilers, debuggers and real-time operating systems.

You can also expect to be involved in a variety of other activities, including:

• Creating and maintaining technology demonstrators.
• Performing case studies.
• Research and development projects.
• Presenting and exhibiting at shows and conferences.

What would make you great at this role?

We’re looking for a talented and motivated engineer who enjoys working with customers and solving complex technical problems. You should have both excellent embedded software engineering skills and good interpersonal/communication skills.

You need to be highly motivated, hard-working and innovative, with a "can do" attitude. Ideally, you should have:

• A strong software background with experience of either reliable software, embedded software, or real-time systems.
• A degree (or PhD) in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline.
• Excellent communication skills and confidence working in a customer‑facing role, with strong written and spoken English.
• Ability to be organized under pressure, prioritize and manage your workload.

Also desirable:

• Experience with a variety of real-time operating systems (RTOS).
• Experience with aerospace and/or automotive applications.
• Familiarity with any of DO-178C, ARINC-653, DO-330 or related standards.

This position could suit a range of experiences from a new graduate to someone with more years of industrial experience, competitive salary commensurate with skills and experience.

Why Join Rapita

Rapita Systems, Inc. is a friendly, lively, high-tech software company located in Novi, MI. We are responsible for supporting aerospace, space and automotive customers throughout North America, offering engineering tool and specialist engineering services for analysis and validation of mission critical embedded systems.

You will be working within a strong, friendly team of like-minded people who have a passion for technology, research and the work they do.

About Rapita Systems

Our work helps our customers to provide safer and greener aviation. We work with customers who design the latest low-carbon technologies, autonomous vehicles, advanced displays, and pilot support.

Rapita Systems is a specialist in aerospace software verification, performance profiling, and timing analysis of real-time embedded systems. Our major customers are in the aerospace (civil and defence) and automotive industries. Learn more at

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Applicants should email their resume and optionally a cover letter to [email protected]. Make it clear in your application which role and location (UK, US, Spain) you are applying for. We look forward to hearing from you.

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