Embedded Software Development Engineer

About

Insight Global is assisting a signal processing and optical telecommunications client of ours in identifying an Embedded Software Development Engineer for a direct-hire opening. The Embedded Software Development Engineer designs, implements, and tests embedded software features running on both in-house developed and commercial hardware platforms.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and maintain embedded software for optical telecommunications equipment.
• Develop software in C/C++ for embedded Linux SoC systems and microprocessors.
• Collaborate closely with hardware design engineers to support rapid embedded software development: Provide software input during schematic design reviews and assist with board bring-up, debugging, and validation.
• Support the production team with software testing and production workflows
• Provide customer technical support, including bug fixes and implementation of new software features
• Recreate customer-reported issues and test scenarios using optical laboratory test equipment
• Participate in project planning, task estimation, and schedule development
• Contribute to system-level design and embedded software architecture

Required Skills and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent experience
• Strong proficiency in embedded C
• 3-5 years in embedded software engineering
• Experience leading software engineering projects (project management experience)
• Experience developing software for embedded Linux systems
• Ability to debug software at the Linux and embedded system level
• Understanding of electronic hardware fundamentals
• Experience using laboratory test equipment, such as multimeters, oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and JTAG tools
• Familiarity with scripting languages, such as Python, and Linux command line tools, including bash scripting

Nice to Have Skills and Experience

• Working knowledge of C++
• Familiarity with ARM and/or MIPS processor architectures
• Experience with SDK design, gRPC, protobuf, or similar communication