Principal Software Engineer

About the role

This position will be part of a team responsible for software design and development for Predictive Maintenance & Logistics (PM&L) projects and other internal software development efforts within the ICS Business Unit.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and test custom software for condition-based maintenance and other internal projects.
• Develop software for data manipulation, storage, translation, sensor data capture, sensor data transmission, and export to different platforms.
• Convert and integrate data into standardized messaging formats and external software interfaces.
• Build and maintain software interfaces to databases, APIs, file-based data sources, message brokers, and external applications.
• Implement algorithms in software for data manipulation, analysis, and presentation.
• Develop software that operates in conjunction with external and embedded hardware/software across Linux, Windows, and Android environments.
• Document development efforts through design documentation, interface control documents, user manuals, and test plans.
• Support software packaging, deployment, configuration management, and troubleshooting in lab, field, and customer environments.
• Support technical test events, demonstrations, and customer-facing engineering activities as part of a fast-paced team.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data Science, or equivalent and a minimum of 9 years of related experience working in an agile environment OR 7 years with a graduate degree (or 13 total years in lieu of a degree).
• Experience with Python software development.
• Experience developing maintainable production-quality software, including modular design, error handling, logging, configuration management, and unit/integration testing.
• Experience with Python libraries and frameworks for data processing, automation, APIs, and/or application development.
• Experience working in Linux and Windows development environments.
• Experience with data formats and interfaces such as JSON, CSV, XML, REST APIs, sockets, message queues, or similar mechanisms.
• Experience with databases and data storage technologies such as PostgreSQL, SQLite, InfluxDB, object storage, or similar systems.
• Experience with software revision control systems such as Git, SVN, or similar tools.
• Ability to troubleshoot software issues across applications, operating systems, networks, and external system interfaces.