Linux System Administrator

• Persons in this position will be asked to prototype new concepts, participate in the development of systems, and provide support to deployed systems.
• Candidate must be willing to work in a multi- disciplinary team environment. Team members will work with inter-disciplinary teams to develop advanced communication system prototypes, and testing with both internally and externally developed systems.
• Work includes embedded software design, code implementation and testing to support a variety of high- delity software-in-the-loop and hardware-in-the-loop prototypes.
• Contractors will participate in developing cross platform, distributed and multi-processor object oriented code for embedded applications.
• Requires understanding of object oriented analysis and design in addition to programming language skills in C and C++.

Required Skills:

• Minimum Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related eld; Masters or PhD is preferred but not mandatory.
• Good communication skills: willingness to listen to the needs of engineers and the ability to articulate solutions to engineers in other disciplines who possess little understanding of embedded software systems
• Experience developing embedded software for communication systems through the complete life- cycle from requirements analysis, design, implementation, integration and test
• Experience developing drivers and support software for custom-designed hardware boards. In lieu of custom-designed hardware; experience developing drivers and support software for consumer o-the-shelf hardware boards is acceptable
• Experience developing C/C++ software for a real-time operating system (RTOS) such as VxWorks
• Must have Hands On experience with Green Hills INTEGRITY RTOS
• Experience with PetaLinux, YOCTO, and Bitbake

Preferred Skills:

• A fundamental understanding of digital logic design is preferred
• Familiarity with or prior experience designing for multi- core ARM processor architectures
• Experience designing for high-reliability applications
• Experience developing embedded software applications that use GPIO or SPI bus to congure external devices
• Experience with event based control loops and state machines
• Familiarity with developing embedded software interfaces supporting data transfer over Ethernet, especially for network booting using Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) or similar.

Looking for around 4 years or more of experience.

Interview Process: One round of zoom interviews with the broader interview team

This role is 100% onsite due to the nature of the work (hardware integration)