Senior Embedded Software Engineer

Real Axis Engineering is an engineering services firm serving the aerospace and defense industries. As a firm, we are driven by the philosophy that engineering is not just about providing technical solutions to challenging problems but also connecting with and engaging the people whose problems those solutions solve. We believe that you should never forget who you are designing for, and we make it our mission to deliver the highest level of service while actively listening to our customers' needs and being attentive and responsive to their concerns.

RAE is seeking a senior engineer to lead and execute on embedded avionics software development with RAE customers. This unique role combines aspects of technical leadership, execution, and customer management. The senior engineer will lead embedded software and HDL  projects throughout the full design lifecycle while also managing customer relationships. The ideal candidate must be capable of independently managing and executing embedded avionics software projects across a wide range of hardware and software platforms.

In this position, you will:

• Generate avionics software requirements and architectures
• Generate avionics software test plans
• Integrate with vendor-supplied board support packages
• Develop application software for target hardware platforms
• Stand-up software test infrastructure within the customer’s IT infrastructure
• Perform software testing and summarize results for customers
• Support customer software integration and debugging activities
• Participate in gating design reviews. Conduct regular code reviews
• Manage project schedules, scope, and priorities with customers
• 20% travel to customer sites
• Participate in sales calls with the Owner
• Provide technical feedback on proposals created by the Owner

Minimum qualifications:

• Experience as a technical lead or similar on an embedded avionics software project
• 7+ years of experience developing embedded software for bare metal, Linux, or RTOS
• Experience developing for AMD Zynq Ultrascale, Microblaze, or STM32 processors
• Experience with low-level peripherals (SPI, I2C, UART, etc)
• Experience with embedded Ethernet stacks such as LwIP
• Ability to read and understand electrical schematics
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Ability to work with internal or external customers to scope and define solutions

Preferred qualifications:

• 1-2 years of experience developing HDL for AMD, Alterra, Lattice, or similar FPGAs
• Experience with one or more avionics software frameworks (fPrime, cFS, MAX)
• Hands-on experience with high-speed data interfaces such as PCIe
• Experience with configuring and deploying Yocto build systems
• Experience deploying signal processing algorithms in image processing or radar
• Experience developing application bootloaders or multi-stage bootloaders