Principal RF Software Engineer

Summary:

VIAVI (NASDAQ: VIAV) has a 100+ year history of technical innovations that have evolved to keep pace and address our customers’ most pressing business issues. We make equipment, software, and systems that help to plan, deploy, certify, monitor, and optimize all kinds of networks - like those for mobile phones, service providers, large businesses and data centers. VIAVI is also a leader in high performance thin film optical coatings and engineered diffusers, providing light management solutions to anti-counterfeiting, consumer electronics, automotive, defense and instrumentation markets.

We are the people behind the products that help keep the world connected – at home, school, work, at play, and everywhere in between. VIAVI employees are fierce about supporting customer success and we welcome people who bring their best every day to the company - to question, to collaborate and to push for solutions that will delight our customers.

As a Principal Software Engineer, specializing in RF, you will be responsible for supporting our existing RF products and developing next generation RF products.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Full life-cycle, real-time, multi-threaded software maintenance and development, typically at the bare metal level and in Linux user space supporting a large complex product.

• Supporting our software instrumentation, internal tools and production environment.

• Analyzing, designing and implementing requirements.

• Responsibility for full life-cycle, real-time software engineering in C or C++, in a constrained environment.

• Maintenance and support of existing software.

• Support of integration of new RF components/subsystems.

• Low level (bare metal) programming in C, possibly some assembler.

• Collaborating with hardware and VHDL teams.

Pre-Requisites / Skills / Experience Requirements:

• Degree level in Engineering or an associated discipline.

• Substantial experience in low level (bare metal), real-time software development, with a strong knowledge of digital and analog RF modulation/demodulation techniques.

• Familiarity with software development environment and tools.

• Familiarity with Linux development environment.

• Strong collaboration and team working skills, with the ability to establish and maintain effective relationships cross-functionally and across all levels.

• Able to influence senior stakeholders and business owners.

• The ability to influence change and lead by example.

• Proven leadership skills with the ability to motivate, coach and inspire at all levels.

• Comprehensive communication skills, both verbal and written.

• The ability to manage complex and multiple projects simultaneously in a deadline-driven environment.

• Proven proactivity and drive.

• Ability to solve significant and unique issues using in depth evaluation of variable factors.

• Makes recommendations on strategic decisions.

If you have what it takes to push boundaries and seize opportunities, apply to join our team today.