Embedded Developer

The Panther Group is seeking a Contract To Hire (6 months Temp to Hire) Embedded Engineer with one of our partners supporting the DoD located in Sterling Heights, MI. This role is fully onsite 5 days a week. It requires US Citizenship and ability to obtain secret clearance.

This role will specialize in ground vehicle combat weapons computer system development, including:

• Planning, specification development
• Coding and testing moderately complex software and/or DSP programs
• Assisting in other engineering activities such as integration testing
• Algorithm & data analysis and software troubleshooting

Responsibilities to Anticipate for this role:

• Design, configure, and test software development environment that will be used to create software work products ranging from documentation to code and test artifacts.
• Develop software documentation and code across one or more vehicle domains including board support, dsp, power management, lethality, software deployment and diagnostics.
• Perform software requirements analysis.
• Develop software preliminary and detail design utilizing software design tools as specified by department standards.
• Develop code to implement software design, code development shall conform to department standards and procedures.
• Develop test procedures and perform unit/functional test on the executable software.
• Perform hardware/software integration.
• Debug software issues discovered throughout multiple testing phases.
• Provide overall status on development task to respective software project leads.
• Create software releases that turn individual changes from multiple developers into overall integrated products for a single CSCI.
• Interface with other departments and business units, including Systems Engineering, Project Management, and Software Quality.
• Perform agile scrum ceremonies such as daily scrum meetings and demonstrations
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications Sought:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineer, Electrical Engineering or related discipline.
• 5-7+ years’ experience in a related role.
• Experience with GIT, Bitbucket, Java, C#, C++, C, Python, Qt, DSP tools required
• Experience working with mixed Operating System environments VxWorks, Linux, RTOS, Virtualization, BSPs, GVOS, etc.
• Experience with serial and network protocols such as GPIO, RS-232/422, CAN, TCP/IP, UDP/IP, etc.
• Experience with one or more Linux system image build tools such as Yocto
• Experience with Eclipse, GIT, gcc, DOORs, Jira / Bitbucket / Confluence, gdb, or QT is a plus
• Experience with type I & II hypervisors is a plus
• Familiarity with security features such as SELinux, verified boot and trusted execution environments is a plus.
• Experience with Linux device drivers, bootloaders, memory maps or other system programming is a strong plus Demonstrated problem solving skills, learning capabilities, and multitasking capabilities
• Experience with ground combat vehicle network architecture designs
• Experience with GCIA, MOSA, SOSA, FACE
• Experience with the use of Agile processes and tools

Additional Information / Desired Experience Sought:

• This position may require the candidate to be able to climb on/off, work in, and work around military vehicles is desired. Must be able to pass ASR test (Anthropometric Size Requirement for confined space)
• Familiarity with the four areas of cyber: Authentication, nonrepudiation, confidentiality, and integrity, as implemented through digital signatures and encryption.
• Enable embedded system security using cryptography and secure architectures.
• Work environment will consist of prototype shop, laboratory, manufacturing, and office.
• Able to bring continuous improvement processes and methodologies to the position. Strong communication, interpersonal, and organizational skills is required. Works well in team and individually.
• Previous experience working on ground combat Vehicles desired.