Senior Software Security Engineer - Tucson
Raytheon · Tucson, AZ
$132,400–$251,600
Jul 19, 2026
Tucson, AZ
Jul 20, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
Senior level · 10+ years · Tucson, AZ · Bachelor's required · Secret clearance · Full-time
Advertised as Principal, but the requirements read as Senior.
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
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How this req sits in the market our data
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What the occupation pays Median $126,430 (middle half $99,705–$156,804).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (9)
The title 'Sr Principal Software Security Engineer' is advertised at Principal level, but the actual requirements — 10+ years of experience, hands-on embedded development, and component-level scope — are consistent with a Senior engineer. 'Sr Principal' at RTX/Raytheon is an internal grade that maps closer to a Senior IC than to a true org-wide Principal.
The clearance requirement is stated as 'Interim Secret' (ability to obtain before start date), which gates on Secret-level eligibility. Mapped to Secret clearance.
The role is genuinely dual-natured — primarily embedded software development in C/C++ with a strong security focus — making 15-1252 (Software Developers) and 15-1212 (Information Security Analysts) both plausible. Primary day-to-day work (design, develop, integrate, test real-time software) tips toward 15-1252.
Xilinx UltraScale+ MPSoC and Versal are listed as interchangeable options ('or comparable embedded processors'); Versal is captured as an alternative. 'Comparable embedded processors' is an open-ended qualifier but no other specific processor family is named.
VxWorks and Embedded Linux are listed as interchangeable examples of embedded OS experience; emitted as one skill with VxWorks as primary and Embedded Linux as alternative.
Hardware interfaces (PCIe, GPIO, I2C, SATA) and modern hardware technologies appear under a preferred section; PCIe and I2C are emitted as representative named technologies. GPIO and SATA are omitted as they are generic interface types rather than distinct named tools.
No compensation figures are provided; the posting notes only that salary and incentive eligibility depend on level and other factors.
U.S. citizenship is a hard requirement tied to clearance eligibility, not captured as a skill but noted here for recruiter awareness.
Requires a Secret clearance — the cleared population is a small fraction of this occupation, so the real candidate pool is materially smaller than the estimate below, which does not model clearance.
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