Senior Embedded Software Engineer

Description

The team builds specialized tools, sensors and communications devices for demanding applications using embedded RF systems.

You will join a multi-disciplinary group and take a design from first architecture through to production, balancing schedule, performance, portability and maintainability.

Your technical choices will affect system performance, real-time behavior and how high-rate RF data is handled on resource-limited hardware.

You will work across the whole embedded stack, from signal processing algorithms and FPGA logic to application code and hardware interfaces.

Responsibilities

• Build high-performance C++ frameworks for communication between processors where latency and throughput matter most.
• Design software architectures across x86, ARM and FPGA fabric, setting communication patterns and data flows for real-time RF signal processing.
• Design microservice architectures for x86 and ARM, weighing modularity, performance and resource limits.
• Set up data pipelines that move RF samples from ADCs through filters, demodulators and decoders, working alongside signal processing engineers.
• Work with FPGA engineers on hardware/software interfaces that use programmable logic while keeping the software flexible.
• Profile and tune software for memory-bound and compute-bound workloads with tools such as vTune, finding bottlenecks and delivering measurable gains.
• Create debugging methods for constrained embedded systems where standard tools offer little visibility.
• Write C++ and Python test harnesses and unit tests that produce realistic workloads, check system behavior and cover edge cases.
• Adopt modern tooling and practices such as CI/CD, containerization and build automation.
• Produce technical documents, including message sequence charts, UML class diagrams and architecture specifications, so distributed teams can build complex systems correctly.

Requirements

• Required:
• 7+ years of professional software engineering work in embedded systems and/or high-performance computing on Linux.
• BS or MS in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or a related field.
• Strong C++ skills for embedded real-time systems, covering concurrency, memory management and optimization.
• A proven record of designing software architectures and explaining technical ideas through documents and diagrams.
• Multi-threaded development experience and the ability to debug concurrency faults such as race conditions in inter-processor and microservice designs.
• Working knowledge of software design patterns and methodologies for complex systems.
• Experience with build systems and DevOps tools such as Conan, Docker and GitLab, or similar.
• Experience with profiling and debugging tools such as vTune, perf, gdb and valgrind, or similar, to find and fix bottlenecks.
• Judgment in balancing portability, performance and architecture-specific optimization.
• US citizenship is required.
• Desired:
• Experience with communications systems and digital signal processing, including filters, modulation and demodulation, channel equalization and forward error correction (FEC).
• Experience with wireless communications protocols such as 3GPP, IEEE 802.11 and IEEE 802.15.
• Understanding of the signal processing pipeline from RF data collection through digital processing.

Conditions

Full-time, regular position.

No security clearance is needed to start.

No travel is required.

Salary depends on factors such as geographic location, Federal Government contract labor categories and wage rates, prior experience, skills, education and certifications.

Proposed salary range: $113,200 - $237,800.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and learning and development opportunities.
• Healthcare, wellness, financial, retirement, family support, continuing education and time off benefits.
• Flexible time off that lets you take the time you need.
• Access to robust learning resources.