The Senior Systems Contract Engineer is responsible for software design, develop and implementation responsibilities for embedded application development

This position applies extensive technical expertise towards software and systems solutions of complex technical problems, and provides solutions that require the regular use of ingenuity and creativity. The contractor is able to work without appreciable direction and with considerable latitude in determining technical objectives of assignment with cooperation with development managers.

Essential Job Functions 
• MUST have embedded Linux experience, strong debugging skills
• MUST have excellent software development skills developing readable and maintainable code
• MUST have experience writing real-time application and developing software simulators for hardware.
• MUST have good documentation and communication skills
• MUST have a history of accurate estimation and delivery of products.
• Design, develop, test and document software components and applications. 
• Focus on embedded real-time, multi-processor systems.
• Work with software, hardware and test team members.
• Implementation of technical requirements and developing accurate estimates, and planning efforts 
• Leverage internal component reusability and open source solutions to improve time to market.
• Develop products to promote the ease of implementing automated test suites.
• Responsible working with development and project managers to assist in technical decision making
• Insure cross product implementation consistency.
• Travel requirement: none anticipated

Qualifications

A. EDUCATION:
Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or Computer Science or equivalent.


B. EXPERIENCE 

MUST HAVE:
• 12+ years of work experience in firmware and software development.

• Experience with Xilinx Ultrascale A53 and R5 cores and able to develop in both processing environments.
• System development expertise using OO principles, multithreading and process synchronization
• Experience managing code management systems such as Bitbucket
• Team communication and collaboration experience (Such as a wiki)
• Experience working with hardware teams to isolate failure causes.
• DSP FPGA/CPLD implementations
• Ability to quickly prototype new concepts and ideas 
• Ability to provide creativity while solving complex problems without known solutions 
• Familiarity and experience working with Matlab, Linux, and scripting languages 
• Ability to assess new technologies via comprehensive reviews of the state-of-the-art 
• Expert level skills in one or more scripting languages such as TCL, Python and Perl.
• Experience with embedded and host applications developed in C, C++
• Ability to express ideas clearly in written and oral communications.
• Proven track record of proactively working with the development and QA stakeholders 
• Strong technical capabilities of a developer combined with a passion for assuring product quality.
• Willingness and excited to assume increased responsibility.