Embedded Software Engineer - Embedded Firmware, Research & Development Engineering

What you’ll do:

The Specialist Embedded Software Engineer will be a critical member of the Power Systems Division’s team and will provide strong technical leadership in driving on time and on quality execution of new product development for the division's real-time controls and protective relays portfolio. The person will also work closely with global engineering leadership team and central platform teams to develop embedded software/firmware platforms, Model Based Development methodologies, drive adoption of AI tools for productivity, and software process excellence.    

• Act as a technical lead and drive the design and implementation of embedded platform features for power system intelligent electronic devices, analyzing and delivering features with new and existing technologies, in line with the technological roadmap
• Evaluate system performance requirements and model future requirements to evaluate suitability of firmware and hardware components and to identify and mitigate risks.
• Drive technical architecture decisions to align with product requirements and platform strategy. 
• Stage work and delegate appropriate aspects of design and implementation to other developers, ensuring compliance with architecture and system/design requirements.
• Contribute to strategic embedded system platform evaluations, while demonstrating a strong product and technology lifecycle understanding. 
• Analyze technology, product and development team needs to mitigate risks and to accelerate delivery of products/features.
• Create optimized and right-sized solutions that meet or exceed product requirements with appropriate technical tradeoffs for constrained resources and serve as embedded software expert in the area of specifications, design, construction, test, test automation and maintenance
• Lead and guide complex system interface design activities and lead the resolution of integration issues across multiple engineering disciplines
• Collaborate with product owners, functional managers, systems engineering to distill and develop product/system/design requirements, use cases, identifying & mitigating risks, sizing effort, staging work and creating design paths/designs.
• Collaborate with Product Line Managers to analyze competitor product landscape and contribute with technology solutions for product differentiation and technology and product roadmaps.
• Demonstrate technical leadership level contributions with Linux based embedded systems as well as coach and mentor other team members with respect to technology, architecture, design principles, and coding practices to achieve functional and project goals.
• Collaborate with internal CoE's and external resources to select appropriate platforms, technologies, tools, problem solve accelerating new features/products.
• Demonstrate fluency and awareness of open-source software and understand best practices around integrating open-source software into commercial products
• Identify, investigate, leverage and deploy new technologies to enhance product features, improve quality/efficiency/collaboration. 
• Contribute to DevOps activities for embedded platforms by designing and maintaining Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery pipelines. 

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s/Master's degree in Computer Science /Electronics/Electrical Engineering
• 14-18 years

Skills:

- Embedded Linux, C++, OOPS, SOLID, Design Patterns, Unit Testing
- Demonstrated competency with hardware drivers, embedded applications, multi-core systems, networking and related areas primarily using C and C++ as programming languages.
- Demonstrated competency with embedded software development environments and tools for Embedded Linux.
- Demonstrated competency using or designing systems that use network protocols such as Serial, TCP/IP, Ethernet
- Demonstrated competencies creating and implementing virtualized environments for embedded software designs.  
- Strong understanding of Object-Oriented Design (OOD) principles using C++, secure coding and cybersecurity best practices
- Demonstrated experience modelling real-time systems behavior and developing use cases using UML or similar methodologies as appropriate.
- Ability to work effectively in an Agile Scrum (or other iterative development) environment
- Experience with test-driven development (TDD) and unit test frameworks.
- Experience using SDLC management tools in a team environment (e.g. Jira, Confluence, Git, etc.)
- Debugging experience - Like J-Link debugger with IAR ARM for NXP ColdFire, STM32 or TI AM64x
- Experience with Industrial Communication Protocols (ModBus TCP/IP, CAN, USB, RS232/485, SPI, I2C, SNMP).
- Experience with Peripherals (DMA, LCD, FLASH, RAM, ADC, DAC, PWM, voltage/current/temp sensors).
- Ability to read schematics and interpret the behavior of electronic systems.
- Familiar with BlackDuck, Coverity tools
- Familiar with the following concepts - MQTT, TRAP,SNMP,SSL certificate, Boot loader, SYSLOG, Serial, Telnet, HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, FTPs, TLS,Free RADIUS, OpenLDAP and data encryption/decryption
- Familiar with JavaScript and Python
- Experience leading technical resources.

Good to have:
- Experience in RTOS – FreeRTOS, Zephyr or equivalent (threads/tasks, synchronization, scheduling, message queues, semaphores, mutexes and events).
- Experinece with power system protection and control devices, understanding of power system protection principles and time current charateristics
Experience with Power Systems portfolio like Switchgears, Relays, Meters, Regulators, etc.
Experience in handling end to end IoT devices lifecycle
- Strong written and verbal communication skills are essential, along with the ability to manage multiple concurrent projects and tasks while adapting swiftly to changing priorities.
- Ability to work in highly matrixed organization and thrive in globally distributed team environments.
- Must have strong drive for results and set high bar for self and others.
- Strong innovation leadership with the ability to influence across organizational levels.
- Creating technical proposals, stakeholder communication, process definition.