Automation Products company needs a Sr. Software Developer who will design, program, and maintain C-based embedded applications for Linux and potentially other real-time operating systems. Full life-cycle application development and maintenance. Participate and/or lead in product definition, specification, and requirements analysis, working with Product Managers, Product Engineers, and others in the development organization.

Great things about working here!

• Quarterly bonuses and generous profit sharing
• Team-based culture
• Excellent benefits: health/dental/life insurance
• 401(k) matching - 100% vesting after 1 month of employment
• On-campus cafe and gym and exercise classes
• Tuition reimbursement

Requirements:

• Design, code, test and document new embedded firmware applications or feature enhancements to existing applications in C programming language
• Resolve issues (bugs reported through JIRA) with code
• Apply Object Oriented Design principles and adhere to appropriate standards and accepted practice
• Document, design and write source code as needed
• Participate in and support all phases of testing
• Participate in software release and post-release activities
• Support the user documentation team, providing source documentation as needed
• Learn new programming languages, job-related technologies, API’s and development and runtime environments as necessary
• Lead and/or support New Product Development (NPD) process continuous improvement
• Develop and mentor less experienced developers
• Participate in business meetings, etc. as needed
• Initiate strategic development discussions or projects for product roadmaps or NPD process design

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s in Computer Science or equivalent required and 10 years related experience in embedded firmware applications or Master’s in Computer Science or equivalent and 7 years of experience
• 8 years of experience in developing code with resource limited runtime environments for embedded products is required
• Thorough understanding of Personal Computers (Memory, Storage, Processors, etc.) is required
• Proficient in Object-Oriented and Visual programming languages (e.g., C++/C#, Java, VB, etc.) is required
• Proficient with web technologies such as HTML5, CSS, JavaScript or XML is preferred
• Experience in low-level languages (e.g., Assembler, ladder, etc.) is required
• Expertise of microprocessors (ARM preferred) and hardware architectures (address/data buses, memory addressing and management, peripheral connections, programming instruction sets) is required
• Expertise with Real Time Operating Systems (RTOS) for embedded products is required
• Expertise with Linux operating systems required
• Experience with industrial programmable logic controllers and interface protocols is preferred
• Proficiency with internationalization and localization issues (language support, etc) is preferred
• Proficiency with data communications is required
• Basic understanding of electronics and electricity is strongly preferred
• Proficiency with database management is preferred