Senior Engineer, Embedded Software

Description

The company makes industrial automation technology and works with manufacturers that make food, medicine, clean water and green mobility products.

This is a new product development team building embedded software and features for programmable logic controllers, with a focus on the Control Logix Motion line.

Hardware and software are tightly coupled in these products, so prior embedded software experience is preferred.

The role reports to the Manager, Motion Embedded Software and is hybrid, based in Mayfield Heights, OH.

Responsibilities

• Develop safety- and security-critical embedded software for new programmable logic controllers.
• Build and maintain automated tests for new and existing product features.
• Work across hardware setups from off-the-shelf boards to custom System on Chip designs, and across general purpose and embedded real-time operating systems.
• Introduce and improve continuous integration and development tools and practices across the global development organization.
• Apply object-oriented programming concepts, using C++ and Python where possible.
• Take part in the full software life cycle: requirements, design, implementation, testing, release and maintenance.
• Work on an Agile team inside a larger Scaled Agile Framework organization, planning in sprints, program increments and against the product roadmap.
• Implement controller features and subsystems, and advise the team technically.
• Mentor less experienced engineers and encourage knowledge sharing across the development community.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent years of relevant work experience.
• Legal authorization to work in the US. The company will not sponsor employment visas for this role, now or in the future.
• Typically at least 5 years of related experience.
• Bachelor's degree in computer engineering, computer science, electrical engineering, or equivalent knowledge of software engineering principles and techniques.
• 5+ years of software engineering experience, with a track record of professional software design and implementation.
• Preferred: experience developing embedded software, especially on an embedded RTOS or Linux.
• Preferred: experience debugging with an on-chip debugger or a software debugger such as GDB.
• Preferred: experience building automated tests and tools in a high-level language such as Python.
• Preferred: knowledge of object-oriented analysis, design and programming.
• Preferred: experience developing software and automated tests in object-oriented languages such as C++ or Python.
• Preferred: experience building automation frameworks and tools.
• Preferred: experience with requirements decomposition and test traceability.
• Preferred: experience with open source tools such as Git and Jenkins.
• Preferred: knowledge of unit testing tools such as GTest or CppUnit.
• Preferred: experience working in an Agile setting and with Agile project tools.
• Preferred: experience with industrial protocols, especially Common Industrial Protocol (CIP).
• Preferred: experience developing software and testing against safety and security standards such as IEC 61508 or IEC 62443.
• Preferred: advanced courses or a degree in engineering, computer science or controls.

Conditions

Hybrid schedule: work at a Rockwell location at least Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays, unless you have a business obligation away from the office.

This position is part of a job family, and experience determines level and compensation.

The company is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and veterans.

Benefits

• Medical, dental and vision health insurance.
• 401k.
• Paid time off.
• Parental and caregiver leave.
• Flexible work schedule, arranged with your manager around your personal life.