Senior Software Engineer (14611)

Senior Software Engineer

Location: Sterling Heights, MI

Pay: $65-80/hour

Long term contract to hire

About the Role: 

Join a dynamic group of software engineers responsible for the development and support of embedded application software for a new ground combat vehicle program. The engineer will be part of a team covering the entire software development life-cycle, including:

• Designing and migrating to a new software development environment 
• Creating requirements, design, and architecture documentation 
• Developing and testing software code. 
• 9-80 Work Schedule (This position’s standard work schedule is a 9/80. The 9/80 schedule allows employees who work a nine-hour day Monday through Thursday to take every other Friday off.)
• Onsite Cafeteria, Fitness Center, and Outdoor fitness track

Responsibilities to Anticipate for this role: 

• Design, configure, and test a new 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, displays, power management, lethality, software deployment, embedded training, diagnostics. 
• Perform software requirements analysis. 
• Develop software preliminary and detail design utilizing software design tools as specified by department standards. 
• Develop software designs that influence the overall vehicle architecture.  
• 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. 
• Integrate software releases across multiple CSCIs into overall vehicle software releases 
• Interface with other departments and business units, including Systems Engineering, Project Management, and Software Quality.   
• Lead agile scrum ceremonies such as daily scrum meetings, PI Planning events, retrospectives, and demonstrations
• Performs other duties as assigned. 

Qualifications Sought: 

• Advanced degree (M.S.) in Computer Engineer, Electrical Engineering or related discipline.
• 10 + years experience plus in a related role.
• Experience with GIT, Bitbucket, Java, C#, C++, C, Python tools
• Experience working with mixed Operating System environments VxWorks, Linux, RTOS, Virtualization, BSPs, GVOS, etc.
• Experience with serial and network protocols such as RS-232/422, CAN, TCP/IP, UDP/IP, etc
• Experience with DDS, Kafka or other Pub/Sub middleware
• Experience with Time Sensitive Network (TSN) architectures
• Experience with NGVA (NATO Ground Vehicle Architecture) data model
• Experience with UKGVA (UK Ground Vehicle Architecture) data model
• 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 

• Previous experience working in the defense industry desired 
• Familiar with Type1/2 Hypervisor 
• Familiar with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)  
• Familiar with IOT concepts 
• Experience with Cameo Systems Modeler 
• Data Distribution Service (DDS) experience 
• Experience with User Datagram Protocol (UDP) and Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) 
• Multicast network experience 
• 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. 
• Must be able to work occasional evening and/or weekend overtime as required