Embedded Software Engineer

Job Type: Contract Location: Grand Rapids, MI 49512 Required Skills -

• Embedded software cybersecurity
• Ada
• C, C++, or equivalent languages
• RTOS
• Embedded software testing

Job Duties -In this role you will design, develop, and optimize embedded software for mission-critical systems, defining and formalizing system, hardware, and software integration requirements. Responsibilities include implementing protocols and algorithms for resource-constrained environments, conducting software testing, debugging, and hardware integration using tools such as gdb and oscilloscopes, and collaborating with hardware teams to enable seamless communication between modules and applications. The engineer will ensure software robustness, resilience, and security for critical devices, create detailed design documentation, implement new features, and support system validation and verification activities across diverse environments.

Job Requirements -

• 5+ years of embedded software engineering experience
• Experience working in mission-critical industries (aerospace, automotive, defense, first responder, medical devices, etc.) and turning CONOPS, Specifications or Requirements into software design, code, test plans and execution
• Experience implementing user interfaces
• Embedded software cybersecurity experience
• Ada language experience and proficiency in C, C++, or equivalent languages
• Experience with RTOS (Linux, FreeRTOS, QNX, VxWorks, etc.) and device drivers for complex systems using parallel processing, multi-threading, distributed processing, multi-core, SoM, board support package (BSP), device drivers development, and / or application program interface (API) design
• Experience with embedded software testing, debugging, and integration on hardware using debuggers (gdb, lldb, etc.), test equipment (scopes, analyzers, multi-meters, etc.), and UARTs, JTAGs and oscilloscopes
• Experience with model-based engineering tools such as Cameo

Desired Skills & Experience - Possesses a US security clearance