Sr. Embedded Software Engineer

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Develop a deep understanding of TCI's Embedded server architectures and become a key contributor to architecting and implementing improvements and new features for our products.
• Modify existing software and/or develop new software to implement improvements or add new features to our systems. Support testing and analysis of new hardware and software performance up to the system level.
• Provide technical support to the product support group by interfacing with customers to deploy new products, solve issues found in the field, and understand potential product improvements.
• Support other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Extensive experience in design, implementation, and testing of complex real-time multithreaded/multitasking/multicore embedded server software supporting multiple simultaneous clients.
• Extensive C/C++ software development experience (6+ years) with proficiency in features such as templates, Lambda functions, vectors, maps, and algorithms using C++11 or newer standards.
• Experience with designing well-crafted C++ classes/modules.
• Experience with FPGA co-processing and managing Interrupts/data blocks.
• Clear understanding of ADCs, RF Receiver architectures, and associated quality metrics.
• Cross-platform programming for Linux and Windows targets.
• Experience in developing/using Windows and Linux libraries.
• Understanding of Synchronization primitives, Queueing, and task scheduling.
• Experience with TCP Message-based Client/Server communication.
• Realtime hardware control and data acquisition.
• Experience with SCPI control, TCP/UDP Networking, and socket level programming.
• C++/C API programming (developing and using).
• GUI design and programming using Visual Studio and open-source tools.
• Knowledge of databases and database programming (including SQLite).
• Experience with software QA testing.
• Ability to quickly learn and support a large existing C++ code base.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Ability to write technical product documentation.
• Must be a U.S. citizen or Permanent Resident.

Nice to Have

• Knowledge of Signal Direction finding / Geolocation concepts.
• AMD Zynq and/or UltraScale+ development experience.
• AMD FPGA development experience.
• Extensive Math, Digital Signal Processing (DSP), and RF communication signals background.
• RF system and Software Defined Radio (SDR) Platforms such as HackRF, USRP, Pluto, and application frameworks like GNU Radio, CubicSDR, SDR++.
• Signal analysis techniques and tools.
• PCIe and NVMe interfaces.
• Programming expertise in VITA49, AI concepts, and programming in Python.
• Experience with Microsoft Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, TFS, Git, Eclipse IDEs, MATLAB/Octave, RF measurement equipment, Windows (including IoT variants), Intel IPP, TensorFlow, PyTorch, Linux utilities, MFC, C#, Docker containers, and VMs.
• Experience creating and maintaining automated software build systems and executing automated QA testing.

Qualifications

• 6+ years relevant work experience.
• MSEE/MSCS or BSEE/BSCS with extended relevant work experience, with emphasis on Embedded Software and Digital Signal Processing.
• Must be a U.S. citizen or Permanent Resident.

Benefits & Perks

• Generous and flexible paid time off including personal, caregiver, parental, and volunteer leave.
• Competitive health insurance plans and 401(k) match, with benefits starting day one.
• Performance-based compensation packages and bonus plans.
• Educational assistance, leadership development programs, and recognition programs.