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Azure Summit Technology is currently seeking a Senior Embedded Software Engineer. The selected candidate will be part of a dynamic, growing, cross-functional, and geographically distributed team.  This position is located at our facility in Fairfax, Virginia, with occasional overnight travel to our office in Melbourne, Florida and/or other locations as needed to support customer activities.  Your future team has worked together to produce the following job description:

The selected candidate will be responsible for executing research and development of complex SIGINT, EW, radar, communications, and other RF mission systems. Duties will include, but not be limited to the following:

- Coordinating with the hardware and firmware teams as well as all aspects of software engineering, including requirements analysis and specification, software design, implementation and integration, testing of board-level driver interfaces, and kernel integration where necessary.  

- Delivering software to run in embedded RTOS and on bare-metal systems.  

- Engaging with stakeholders and project managers to define requirements, develop software architecture, and plan development in dynamic, evolving problem spaces.  

- Conducting software unit tests to exercise implemented functionality.

- Reviewing product manuals and brochures for technical accuracy and participating in product definition activities such as feature analysis and system tradeoffs.

- Analyzing system software requirements to determine feasibility of design within performance, time, and cost constraints.

- Leading and participating in technical discussions across engineering and product teams.

- Keeping up with current technology in the field through reading, self-study, and seminars.

- Consulting with hardware engineers and other engineering staff to evaluate the interface between hardware and software.

- Performing project planning and status tracking, defining detailed tasks, estimating the time and effort required to perform tasks, and periodic reporting on task status.

Basic Requirements

- US citizenship, due to nature of the work and contract requirement

- Active SECRET clearance, due to nature of the work and contract requirement

- BS degree in computer science, electrical engineering, computer engineering, or equivalent

- Minimum 10 years’ experience as a real-time embedded engineer

Preferred Qualifications

- TS/SCI Clearance

- 15 to 20 years’ experience as an embedded and software engineer

- MS degree in computer science, electrical engineering, computer engineering, or equivalent

- Proficiency in C/C++ on Linux and ability to develop clean, modular code

- Previous experience with bare-metal microcontroller firmware development

- Previous experience with low-level peripheral programming (interrupts, timers, UART, I2C, SPI, ADC, PWM)

- Previous experience with hardware abstraction layer implementation

- Previous experience with microchip PIC32 microcontrollers 

- Previous experience with Arm Cortex A and M based microcontrollers and application processors

- Previous experience with SoC/MPSoC/RFSoC systems

- Previous experience with device drivers

- Previous experience with software defined radio

- Previous experience designing or working with SIGINT, EW, COMINT, geolocation, or DSP systems

- Previous software engineering experience with digital signal processing, algorithm development, and modeling and simulation using C/C++, Python, and MATLAB

- Previous experience with FPGA development, including VHDL and/or Verilog

- Ability to read component data sheets and user manuals and implement appropriate control/driver interfaces

- Ability to articulate ideas to both technical and non-technical audiences

- Meticulous attention to detail

- Strong debugging/problem solving skills

- Ability to adapt to a fast-paced work environment

Azure Summit Technology is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. We consider applicants without regard to race, color, religion, age, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, disability, genetic information, citizenship status, or membership in any other group protected by federal, state or local law.  Azure Summit Technology is committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities.  To request accommodation, contact Julia Bergeman, 571-308-1408, julia.bergeman@azuresummit.com.