What are the responsibilities and job description for the Embedded Software Engineer position at Antenna Research Associates, Inc.?
Company Overview
ARA is a leading C5ISR company that designs, manufactures, tests and installs innovative technologies that provide the national security community with unparalleled situational awareness, threat detection, and communications capabilities.
Our disruptive, integrated solutions, assemblies and subsystems rise to the challenging demands of discerning, mission-critical customers.
We leverage our capabilities to meet and exceed the requirements of our customers and empower them to remain ahead of evolving threats and complexities in a dynamic security landscape.
Job Summary
We are seeking a talented and highly motivated Embedded Software Engineer. The ideal candidate likes working on a team, is a great communicator, and thrives on learning new approaches to solve challenging problems.
Laurel MD, Billerica, MA locations available
Essential Duties & Responsibilities
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Develop and maintain low-level firmware for embedded systems, including both bare metal and Linux-based environments.
- Design, implement, and optimize device drivers, bootloaders, and system initialization code.
- Contribute to the architecture and design of system-level solutions.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand project requirements and translate them into technical specifications.
- Participate in the full software development lifecycle, from requirements analysis and design to implementation, testing, deployment, and maintenance.
- Utilize best practices and industry standards in software engineering to ensure high-quality, scalable, and maintainable software solutions.
- Conduct code reviews, provide constructive feedback, and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives to enhance team productivity and software quality.
- Support and maintain existing software, troubleshoot technical issues, and implement bug fixes and enhancements as needed.
Position Qualifications
Competency Statements
The successful candidate will demonstrate the following:
- Accountability - Ability to accept responsibility and account for his/her actions.
- Job Knowledge- Understand facets of job, aware of duties and responsibilities, keeps job knowledge current.
- Communication – Ability to communicate thoughts clearly, both verbally and in writing.
- Dependability – Meets deadlines, works independently, accountable, maintains focus, good attendance record.
- Quality – Strives to eliminate errors, accurate work is a priority, seeks opportunities to improve products/services.
- Ethics – Honest, accountable, maintains confidentiality.
- Initiative – Acts, seeks new opportunities, strives to see projects to completion.
- Decision Making – Able to reach a decision, takes thoughtful approach when considering others, makes difficult decisions.
- Customer Service – Works well with customers, promotes a positive image of the company, strives to solve issues raised by customers.
- Technical Skill – Maintains current knowledge of processes/equip, uses technology to increase performance/productivity.
Experience and Skills
In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification form upon hire.
- 5 years of experience.
- Extensive experience with Linux and bare metal development.
- Knowledge of real-time operating systems (RTOS)
- Ability to develop and deploy embedded Linux images for production hardware utilizing Yocto.
- Proficiency in programming languages such as C/C , with a focus on embedded systems.
- Hands-on experience with low-level hardware interfaces such as SPI, I2C, and UART.
- Familiarity with debugging tools and embedded software development environments.
- Knowledge of memory management, interrupt handling, and real-time constraints in embedded systems.
- Comfortable reading schematics and understanding hardware specifications.
Bonus Skills
- Knowledge of PCB Design
- Experience in FPGA design and development
- Experience with AESA antennas
Education
- Bachelor’s degree in computer engineering or electrical engineering.
Antenna Research Associates, Inc. and its subsidiaries encourage diversity in the workplace; we are an Equal Opportunity Employer. Race/Color/Gender/Sexual Orientation/Gender/ Identity/Religion/National Origin/Disability/Veteran
