Sr. Software Engineer (C++/Embedded/ARM)

Title: Sr. Software Engineer
location: Onsite Endicott, NY (Onsite)
Position type: FTE

PS: The role is heavily focused on low-level processor/SoC software, safety-critical avionics, ARM, multicore, and board-level interfaces.

Mandatory skills:

The broader low-level ARM/SoC skills first, then use S32G2, Layerscape, and LS1046A as high-value filters.

Embedded/firmware engineer + C/C++ + ARM + bare-metal + BSP/device drivers + multicore/SMP + SoC/processor bring-up + bootloader + DO-178C + avionics + TSN/PCIe/AFDX."

The NXP S32G2 / LS1046A experience is highly specialized

Job Description

Required Education, Experience, & Skills

• A Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field with a strong embedded software development background.
• 5+ years of experience developing embedded software solutions.
• Experience integrating and testing functionality directly on target hardware.
• Fluent in the C/C++ language with exposure to assembly language programming.
• Strong oral and written communication skills with the ability to proactively communicate with team members on a regular basis to maximize team productivity.
• Strong technical communication and writing skills with demonstrated ability to clearly describe planned technical solutions, convey/track development progress, and document complex issues identified during troubleshooting efforts.

Preferred Education, Experience, & Skills

• 5+ years of experience in aviation-related embedded control systems, including familiarity with systems such as flight controls, engine controls, or mission systems.
• Experience with multi-tasking and multi-core software execution environments.
• Experience with ARM cores, ARM tools, and software supporting ARM IP such as GIC, CoreLink, & TrustZone.
• Experience developing processor support packages, board support packages, and low-level hardware device drivers.
• Experience with various communication interfaces such as Ethernet, Mil-Std-1553B, ARINC-429, & Time-Sensitive Networking.
• Experience with various board internal digital buses such as PCI Express, SPI, QSPI, & AXI.
• Experience with safety critical development processes such as ARP4754, DO-178B/C, DO-254, & ISO-26262.
• Experience with software security concepts such as secure boot, isolated execution of software from secure and non-secure domains, and secure communication protocols.
• Strong technical documentation skills with the ability to generate documentation that clearly captures software architecture and design details.
• Demonstrated leadership experience.
• Cross-domain knowledge / perspective on engineering disciplines beyond software engineering such as analog/digital circuit design, FPGA-based firmware logic design, and systems engineering.

Experience in very low, processor level software development to

• Create and execute SoC benchmarking procedures
• Configure, enable, and develop SoC features (NXP S32 family, S32G2 specifically but not limited to S32G2 and/or LayerScape family, LS-1046A specifically)
• Mitigate multi-core interference risks
• Implement bare-metal SMP MCP OS architectural framework, processor bring-up, bootloader
• Ensure deterministic operation in safety-critical avionics applications
• Implement novel communications protocols like TSN, PCIe, AFDX, etc.
• Evaluate and produce reports for SoC fit-for-purpose and sufficiency use-cases in safety-critical avionics systems
• Develop novel MCP test environments and methodologies for DO-178C Software Level A compliance, python skills, ARM DS IDE and Dstream
• Perform complex analyses like WCET, DCCC, etc.
• FPGA, ASIC interfaces and timing interactions

SoC System On a Chip

SMP Symmetric Multi-Processing

MCP Multi Core Processor

TSN Time-Sensitive Networking

PCIe Peripheral Component Interconnect Express

WCET Worst-Case Execution Timing Analysis

DCCC Data Coupling and Control Coupling Analysis