Principal Embedded Software Engineer

About the role

The Software Product Assurance Center’s Software Security Sensors and Effectors Department seeks a highly skilled embedded software engineer to join our team. This role involves employing Agile development techniques on embedded targets to continuously develop and deploy critical capabilities to the warfighter.

Responsibilities

• Employ Agile development techniques on embedded targets to continuously develop and deploy critical capabilities to the warfighter.
• Breakdown architectural documentation in support of the generation and decomposition of requirements needed to support software development activities.
• Participate in Technical Integration Meetings with subcontractors to ensure selected hardware meets hardware and software requirements.
• Work individually or as part of a team to apply embedded principles to the design and development of hardened software applications.
• Ensure consistency across teams and remove impediments as they arise.

Qualifications

• Requires a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, or related field and minimum of 8 years of prior relevant experience.
• Experience in an Agile and DevSecOps environment developing and maintaining software on an embedded processors/microcontroller.
• Demonstrated ability to work closely across other engineering disciplines (Systems Engineering, Hardware Engineering, etc.) to debug system and board level issues using software tools.
• Experience working in a Linux environment with ability to modify and maintain Linux Kernel root file systems.
• Experience developing multi-threaded applications.
• Proficiency with RTOS Systems, Linux device drivers, and/or embedded Linux.
• Experience designing, implementing, testing, or deploying real-time embedded software solutions.
• Willingness to learn new techniques and apply critical thinking and problem-solving skills to diagnose customer issues.
• Knowledge of modern computer architectures and hardware technologies including: x86, ARM Architectures, Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs).
• Working knowledge of the Linux Kernel development and device drivers for the Linux Kernel.
• Experience with bare-metal software development.
• Experience using version control systems such as Git or Subversion.
• Strong knowledge of building up and maintaining a code base built with CMake and Google Test.