Sr Staff Engineer Embedded Software - 20486

Description

Relocation assistance may be available for this role, based in Roy, Utah, supporting the Sentinel Program within the Special Programs and Futures Onyx Software Team at the company's defense systems business.

The role requires an active DoD Secret clearance before start and involves about 10% travel.

The company builds systems that have shaped aviation and space history and works on projects with long-term national impact.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership for the Flight Systems Guidance, Navigation, and Controls (GNC) software team, focused on mission critical software products.
• Architect complex systems and lead design, development, testing and deployment.
• Develop and integrate board support packages and device drivers to keep the software compatible.
• Configure real-time operating system kernel parameters, manage task scheduling and implement inter-process communication.
• Develop and support middleware integration using suitable communication models.
• Integrate application, system and device layers on real-time embedded systems.
• Measure performance and optimize throughput.
• Mentor software engineers.
• Take part in and advise on the formal test approach for embedded software, closed loop simulation integration, and defect troubleshooting and resolution.

Requirements

• Hold a bachelor's degree in a relevant field with 14 years of experience, a master's with 12 years, a PhD with 10 years, or 4 additional years in place of a degree.
• Be a US citizen with an active DoD Secret clearance and eligible for a SAP.
• Have 10+ years of software experience, including C++, real-time embedded software and object-oriented design, across the full lifecycle from specification to maintenance.
• Have 5+ years of systems engineering and test experience, including system architecture, design, requirements decomposition, hardware-in-the-loop and simulation testing.
• Show proven technical leadership and team management.
• Have experience with engineering metrics, schedule planning and technical scope execution using Earned Value Management System (EVMS).
• Show a record of aligning teams and driving technical execution.
• Have a proven record of coaching team members to build skills and grow their careers.
• Preferred: Experience in algorithmic application development and optimization.
• Preferred: Experience designing real-time multi-threaded embedded architectures, with knowledge of guidance and control systems.
• Preferred: Experience with Integrity Operating Systems and/or VxWorks.
• Preferred: Experience with Visual Studio, MATLAB, Coverity, SonarCube, CodeSonar and Fortify.
• Preferred: Experience with the Atlassian tool set, Kubernetes, Model Based Engineering, GitLab and DevSecOps practices.
• Preferred: Strong integration troubleshooting skills.
• Preferred: Experience writing low-level code to interact with devices and hardware.
• Preferred: Experience with compilation and linking techniques to meet memory usage and partitioning goals.
• Preferred: Familiarity with assembly and low-level code optimization.
• Preferred: Familiarity with board support package development and testing.
• Preferred: In-depth knowledge of guidance, navigation and control (GNC) systems.
• Preferred: Proven experience solving difficult architectural problems in embedded systems.

Conditions

Based in Roy, Utah.

Travel about 10% of the time.

Active DoD Secret clearance required to start.

Relocation assistance may be available.

The application window is estimated at 20 days from the posting date but may be shortened or extended based on business needs and candidate availability.

The company considers equal opportunity and reviews candidates without regard to protected characteristics.

Benefits

• Eligible for overtime, shift differential and a discretionary annual bonus, depending on the position.
• Vice President and Director roles may be eligible for Long Term Incentives.
• Health insurance, life and disability insurance, a savings plan, paid company holidays and paid time off for vacation or personal business.
• Base salary range of $166,500.00 to $249,700.00, set by scope, experience, education, skills and market conditions.