Embedded Software Engineer

Job description

The Software Engineer's role is to develop, create, upgrade, and maintain software applications that fully exercise features of the INTEGRITY-178 operating system to verify the functionality and correctness of the software. As a Software Engineer, you will be responsible for ensuring Green Hills Software safety-critical products are safe for our customers to build vehicles, medical devices, and industrial control systems that people's lives depend on every day.

The Software Engineer will develop a detailed knowledge of operating system internals, while using the latest in compiler and debugger technology from Green Hills. As a Software Engineer, you will have the opportunity to work with real-time operating system (RTOS) components ranging from board support packages and device drivers (Serial, Ethernet, Flash), architecture support packages (PowerPC, ARM, x86), networking stacks, le systems, language libraries (C, C , Ada), and the core kernel itself.

After demonstrating prociency and domain expertise in the above products, Software Engineers may have the opportunity for the design and implementation of safety and security-critical RTOS components.

Duties

• Assessing and ensuring the high safety standards for our products
• Creating validation tests for requirements functionality, robustness, boundary values, and equivalence classes
• Analyzing, improving, and reporting on system code coverage
• Participating in requirement, design, and code reviews for changes to safety-critical products
• Attaining prociency with operating system internals:
  
  • Kernel/Virtual Address Spaces
  • Memory management
  • Task management / Scheduling
  • Connections / Semaphores
  • Clocks / Timers
• Analyzing multi-core processor issues:
  
  • Inter-processor interference
  • Shared resource contention
  • Timing and throughput

Requirements

The ideal candidate will have the following skills and experiences:

• U.S. Citizen (U.S. government contract requirements)
• Bachelors or Masters of Science degree (Computer Science, Electrical/Computer Engineering, Math)
• GPA of 3.5 or greater
• Strong C / C programming skills
• Understanding of the concepts of real-time operating systems
• Ability to learn and understand how complex software systems work
• Excellent communication (both written and verbal) and organization skills
• Willingness and ability to work independently and with little supervision

Benefits

• Competitive pay
• Excellent medical and dental insurance
• Casual work environment
• Fully stocked kitchen

To apply

Qualied candidates are encouraged to send a resume and unocial college transcript to: (reference: Software Development Engineer).