Senior Embedded Software Engineer

Donnell Consulting; Burlington; Hybrid; CAD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

PV Labs is seeking a Senior Embedded Software Engineer to design, verify, and maintain real-time embedded code for airborne optical systems. You will work across architecture, design, verification, and deployment in a multi-disciplinary team.

You’ll engage in architecture reviews, coding standards, and knowledge-base improvements while supporting modular, component-based design in a Linux-based environment.

Qualifications

• Must be eligible to meet the Canadian Controlled Goods Program requirements and hold a Canadian Security Clearance.
• Degree or technical diploma in Software Engineering/Computer Science or Electrical Engineering.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate on architecture, design, analysis, implementation and verification of complex real-time software in C++ (and C for legacy).
• Contribute to design and code reviews, be critical, curious and pragmatic.
• Work with multidisciplinary teams to ensure requirements are understood and well documented.
• Ensure traceability by aligning implementation and tests with internal standards for military-class systems.
• Manage source-code and package repositories to maintain integrity for customers' needs.
• Develop and improve knowledge bases, standards, and workflows to boost efficiency, agility, and quality.

Skills

C++ real-time embedded

Multi-process / multi-threaded

MCU/FPGA architectures

GDB debugging

Linux CLI

UART I2C SPI CAN Ethernet

Bash & Python

Schematics reading

Board support package porting

Aircraft safety requirements

CUDA programming

Git

Education

Degree in Software Engineering / CS or Electrical Engineering

Tools

GDB

Git

Job description

About the job Senior Embedded Software Engineer

Embedded Software Designer

Burlington ON Hybrid

4-Day Work Week

**Please note that to be considered for any position at PV Labs, all candidates must be eligible to meet the requirements of the Canadian Controlled-Goods Program of the Defense Production Act and be able to hold and maintain a Canadian Security Clearance. If you are not clear about your eligibility, please consult the Government of Canada website HERE**

The Embedded Software Designer role at PV Labs is not your ordinary stay-in-your-lane type of software designer. Instead, its an advanced, multi-disciplinary role that is essential to all aspects of architecture, design, verification, debug and test, deployment and (yes) maintenance of high-quality and well-crafted code solutions for real-time embedded systems that drives the ultimate success of our airborne optical systems.

Nor is it the type of role where you're dealing with a monolithic codebase. Our philosophy is firmly rooted in modularity and component-based design because its just the smart thing to do. Finally, this role not only encourages you, but it pushes you to experiment and try new things. It reminds you of why you wanted to be an engineer in the first place.

You will get to enjoy being an active participant in all aspects of product design, and lend your voice, experience, and curiosity to how our embedded code operates our state-of-the-art gyro-stabilized optical payloads. We want you to be vocal and involved in improving our efficiency, agility, and quality of software development. We encourage you to contribute to our knowledge bases, standards, and workflows in other words truly be a part of our team.

About the Role

Reporting to the Vice President of NPI (New Product Introduction) and indirectly to a Project / Program Management Lead with a small but impressive team the main responsibilities of the role are:

• Collaborating closely on the architecture, design, analysis, implementation and verification of complex, multi-processor real-time software solutions in C++ (and some C for our legacy systems)
• Being a key contributor to design and code-reviews being critical, curious, and pragmatic.
• Working alongside multi-disciplinary project teams to ensure design requirements are properly understood and well documented.
• In accordance with our internal standards for developing military-class systems ensuring that implementation and test solutions are aligned and are followed rigorously for traceability.
• Actively managing our source-code and package repositories to ensure the highest level of integrity to align with both our own, and, more importantly, our customers needs.
• Developing and improving our knowledge bases, standards and workflows that will further improve our efficiency, agility, and quality in all areas of development and verification.

Technical Skills You'll Need for Success

• Obviously, a deep understanding of C++ and C for real-time embedded systems
• Demonstratable experience with multi-process / multi-threaded application development
• Embedded software expertise on micro-controller and FPGA SOC architectures
• Capable knowledge of standard debugging tools and techniques including GDB
• Happy in a Linux-based command-line development environment
• Standard embedded communication protocols such as UART, I2C, SPI, CAN or Ethernet. (all of them would be really great)
• Scripting expertise in Bash and Python, and of course working with git.
• Ability to read / interpret / understand electrical schematics.

High-Value Technical Skills

• Porting a board support package to new hardware
• Designing for aircraft safety requirements
• GPU architecture and CUDA programming

About You as an Embedded Software Engineer

Our success is not only derived from the collective technical capabilities of our team, but more importantly HOW we work together. Here's what we value, and we seek those share the following:

• Creativity, Curiosity and Problem Solving, with healthy obsession for attention to detail.
• Not afraid to seek out responsibility and opportunities to take the lead.
• A confident technical communicator who can articulate ideas and concepts, but who also knows that confidence in communication also means the ability to ask for help or collaboration when you need it.
• A continuous-improvement approach to design, processes, and practices
• Participating in requirements generation
• Providing realistic cost and schedule estimations of assigned work packages
• Drive the design and code reviews not just a passenger.
• Constructively provide and receive guidance and mentoring to other members of the engineering team as were all in this together.
• Preference for working on small teams that actually communicate with each other.
• The kind of professional maturity that enables you to manage your own time and priorities and finds motivation from multiple sources.

Qualifications

• Due to the nature of our work, you must be eligible to meet the requirements of the Controlled Goods Program requirements of the Government of Canada and be able to hold and maintain a Canadian Security Clearance.
• A degree or technical diploma from an accredited post-secondary institution, specializing in Software Engineering/Computer Science, Electrical Engineering

What's in It for You?

PV Labs is where your engineering career meets limitless innovation and unparalleled impact.

As an integral member of our growing engineering team, you'll channel your focus, passion, and expertise into an array of fascinating work. Your contributions will span the design, development, and maintenance of next-generation, state-of-the-art electro-mechanical stabilization platforms, motion-control systems, camera and lens control systems, video-processing technologies, remote I/O subsystems, and the integration and control of advanced laser technologies and sensors.

At PV Labs, you'll be immersed in an environment where groundbreaking technology meets exceptional talent. Our distinctive workplace culture fosters collaboration and ingenuity, creating an atmosphere we take immense pride in. With our dedication to the design, development, and delivery of highly complex systems across diverse sectors such as industrial, government, entertainment, and resources, our focus is on the evolution of advanced mechatronics and aerial imaging found in the Intelligence Surveillance Reconnaissance (ISR) and Public Safety, Environmental Protection markets and more.