Job Description Summary

Reporting to Senior Engineering manager, the Engineer – Embedded SW Development will work in close collaboration with GA product lines, R&D teams, product management and other GA functions.
As part of a multi-developer firmware team the major responsibilities will include analysis, design, implementation and testing of firmware for different product line.

Job Description

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES:

 

The Engineer - Embedded SW Development will be responsible for:

• Design, develop, implement, and debug embedded software and/or firmware features/set of features for a small module or a large component of entire embedded software product.
• Integrate software packages with existing systems and sub-systems.
• Prepare unit test and regression test specification, packages, and templates.
• Interact with a multi-discipline engineering team to meet the project requirements throughout its life cycle.
• Prepare formal and informal engineering documentation (e.g., Design documents, code reviews, Release reports etc.).
• Engages in technical discussions; participates in technical designs and presents technical ideas through white boarding.
• Works closely with peers and keeps engaging in a fast pace technical design and development team.
• Executes in a fast-paced delivery mode and focuses in delivering tasks to meet the product release goal.     
• Maintains code quality through best practices, code reviews and unit testing.

 

 

QUALIFICATIONS/REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Electrical Engineering, or Electronics Engineering.
• A minimum of 3+ years of embedded development experience (specifically in the electric power engineering field) in industrial setting.
• Proficient in Real-Time Embedded Software Engineering in C/C++ on any embedded processor/DSP/Microcontroller and RTOS (e.g., FreeRTOS, TI-RTOS, VxWorks etc.), File system, Boot, Device drivers.
• Experience in stack integration and application firmware development.
• Well familiar with HW/SW interfacing, and real-time design consideration.
• Experience in working with fast network/data interfaces like 1G/10G Ethernet, PCI-E
• Familiarity with cybersecurity constructs (Static Analysis, Digital Signatures etc.)
• Familiar with Agile-SW development practices.
• Able to share ideas and work well in a team environment, proactive approach to tasks displaying initiative.
• Guide and mentor others in the team.
• Flexible and adaptable; open to change and modification of tasks, working in multi-tasking environment.

 

 

DESIRED CHARACTERISTICS:

• Experience developing multi-threaded/ multi-tasking real time applications for the power system’s protection and control domain.
• Using emulators, simulators, and software analysis tools and Proficient in debugging code.
• Sound knowledge of Processors, DSPs (preferably from Analog Devices or TI) and Microcontrollers (preferably ARM cores on Intel or Freescale chips).
• Understanding related to power system protection and automation, monitoring and diagnostics.
• Experience on development of Industrial and /or Utility Communication protocols like IEC 61850, DNP, IEC 60870-5-104, etc.
• Cyber security aspects, such as symmetric and asymmetric cryptography and PKI Infrastructure, LDAP, RADIUS, TLS, SSH, SFTP, RSA, HTTPS, is an asset.
• Experience in using MATLAB/Simulink for Target Layer independence.
• Experience in all phases of the product engineering and development cycle.

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