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Sr. Embedded Software Developer

Kent, WA 98032

Posted: 11/20/2023 Employment Type: Direct Hire Industry: Core Technologies - FTE Job Number: 28063

Job Description

Position Title: Sr. Embedded Software Developer

Position Description: Protingent has an exciting direct hire opportunity for a Sr. Embedded Software Developer with our client located in Kent, WA.

Job Description:
 Our client is looking for a self-driven, results-oriented Sr. Embedded Software Developer who strives to write clean, modular and well commented code without taking short-cuts and drives their software through the ‘final 10%’ to take a product to market.
This person should be someone who enjoys taking initiative and seeing a task through from start to finish.

Job Responsibilities:
  • Writing production-level code.
  • Design, develop, and debug on embedded devices.
  • Be a part of designing and taking a product to market.
  • Participate in all project lifecycle phases, from design and code development through unit testing, documentation, and release.
  • Collaborate with business stakeholders to understand needs and translate into technical requirements.
  • Collaborate with an experienced team to create novel solutions to difficult problems.
  • Self-driven, results oriented developer who strives to write clean, modular and well commented code without taking short-cuts and drives their software through the ‘final 10%’ to take a product to market.
  • Someone who enjoys taking initiative and seeing a task through from start to finish.
  • Collaborate with an experienced and motivated team to create novel solutions to difficult problems.

Job Qualifications:
  • A bachelor's degree in engineering or equivalent.
  • 7+ years of experience with a focus in embedded software development.  Design, develop and debug on high to mid level embedded layers. 
  • Strong experience with modern C++, 11 or higher, is required (MUST HAVE), including the ability to communicate and implement object-oriented class designs.
  • Solid experience with developing on Linux Operating Systems is required (MUST HAVE); preferably a Debian based distribution.
  • Experience debugging, developing automated unit tests and working with SDETs/QA to ensure product quality is required.
  • Must be a self-starter and hit the ground running.  Senior level applicants only please. 
  • Must want to be an individual contributor but also comfortable with collaboration with team members.  Not a management role.

Preferred Qualifications:
  • A plus to have experience with low-level development and Linux kernel development, device trees, driver modification or backporting, bootloader customization, and/or Qt stack 
  • A favorable skill would be someone who has experience in different industries and with different tech
  • Experience with concurrency topics (i.e. threading and inter-process communication), event loops, and asynchronous programming.
  • Usage of lab tools such as oscilloscopes or serial analyzers to debug software, and the ability read electrical schematics.
  • Knowledge with Jenkins Continuous Integration, Make and Google Test, Python, and or Golang.
  • Comprehensive understanding of data structures and algorithm topics.
  • Experience with network programming topics (e.g. TCP, UDP, sockets, REST, etc.), Standard and BLE Bluetooth, and Wi-Fi.
  • Competent with interfacing application code with device drivers on Linux.
  • Understanding of Agile development.

Job Details:
  • Job Type - FTE Direct Hire
  • Location:  Kent, WA Onsite/Hybrid  3 days/wk. onsite
  • Salary Range: : $140,900 - $160,000 DOE + 11-27% annual bonus

About Protingent: Protingent is a niche provider of top Engineering and IT talent to Software, Electronics, Medical Device, Telecom, and Aerospace companies nationwide. Protingent exists to make a positive impact and contribution to the lives of others as well as our community by providing relevant, rewarding, and exciting work opportunities for our candidates.

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