Lead Engineer Embedded Software Development - DoD Secret Clearance

Lead Engineer Embedded Software Development

As a Lead Engineer Embedded Software Development you will play a vital role in designing, developing, and testing Embedded Software (Firmware), platforms and systems for our mission-critical technologies and products. You will work with a team of passionate and skilled engineers who share your vision of creating innovative and reliable embedded systems. To succeed in this position, you will need a background in embedded systems, a keen eye for detail, and a deep understanding of real-time systems and their constraints. You will also need to demonstrate your ability to take full ownership of your role and deliver high-quality software solutions. The role has moderate autonomy, requiring high levels of operational judgment.

Responsibilities:

• Designs and/or programs/develops a small module or a large component, feature, set of features, whole feature area or entire embedded software product.

• Define and formalize system, hardware, software, and human integration requirements.

• Define and execute engineering test, validation, and verification activities.

• Follow established software development methodologies and principles and document your tasks and designs.

• Validate and verify software designs in a diversity of system integration environments from local desktop computer simulations to fully representative flight tests.

• Implement protocols and algorithms for resource-constrained environments and collaborate with the hardware team to enable communication between modules and applications.

• Ensure software robustness, resilience, and fail-safe operation for critical devices, and mitigate potential safety and security vulnerabilities.

• Create detailed design and technical documentation, optimize existing applications, and implement new features.

• Participate in task prioritization, execution, requirements, specifications, code and design reviews, and mentorship across the software development life cycle.

• Apply best practices for software engineering and understand the key business drivers and product roadmap.

• Deliver your work to support project scope, cost, and schedule targets, and interface effectively with all levels of the organization and customers.

• Propose novel solutions to technical challenges, generate cost and time estimates for future bids and programs, and utilize hardware/software to demonstrate capability against customer expectations.

Required Qualifications:

• Grand Rapids, MI opportunity - Corporate relocation assistance provided.

• BS + 5 years of related software engineering experience or MS + 2 years of experience in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or related fields

• Proficiency in C, C++, or equivalent languages.

• U.S. Citizen and holds a security clearance.

• Grand Rapids, MI opportunity - Corporate relocation assistance provided.

Desired Qualifications:

• Master's degree in engineering or computer science with extensive experience in Ada, C/C++ for embedded software design, development, and testing.

• Knowledge of scripting languages (Python, Perl, Tcl, etc.) and code management tools (Git, CVS, SVN, Perforce, etc.)

• Experience with RTOS (Linux, FreeRTOS, QNX, VxWorks, etc.) and device drivers for complex systems using parallel processing, multi-threading, distributed processing, multi-core, SoM, and/or secure processing.

• Experience with embedded software testing, debugging, and integration on hardware using debuggers (gdb, lldb, etc.), test equipment (scopes, analyzers, multi-meters, etc.), and UARTs, JTAGs and oscilloscopes.

• Experience working in mission-critical industries (aerospace, automotive, defense, first responder, medical devices, etc.) and turning CONOPS, Specifications or Requirements into software design, code, test plans and execution.

• Innovative, critical thinking and troubleshooting skills and proficiency with IDEs, version control tools, defect tracking tools and scripting tools.

• Experience with bare metal software design and optimization for cycles and memory and fundamental facility with compilers, build and source code control tools.

• Experience with model based engineering on Cameo.

• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills.

• Knowledgeable of system interfaces (e.g. Ethernet, Mil-Std-1553, Serial).

• Knowledgeable of component interfaces (e.g. I2C, SPI, PCIe).