[Hiring] Senior Software Engineer @ST Engineering iDirect

Role Description

We are in search for a Software Engineer at ST Engineering iDirect who will work within the engineering department in a SCRUM team using an Agile framework. The candidate will be responsible for participating in the specification, design, development, testing, and support features for a satellite communications system from concept through completion. He/she will be a highly motivated self-starter with strong written and oral communication skills and work well in a team environment. If you enjoy working in a fast-paced environment with the smartest team, and the very latest technology, then this is the job for you!

Responsibilities

• Analyze requirements and RFCs and come up with efficient software designs
• Participate in determining the future direction of the satellite system and related products in the areas of software architecture, infrastructure performance, test and reliability
• In an Agile framework, document, design, develop, test, and integrate software functionality for various components within a satellite system and related environments
• Take a collaborative design and validation approach in working with a multi-functional Scrum team of software, firmware, embedded, application, and test engineers
• Troubleshoot and provide resolutions for technical issues encountered in the deployment of software solutions
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in mathematics, engineering, a related subject area, or equivalent experience
• 3+ years of industry experience in programming and software engineering
• Hands-on experience developing, designing, and testing multi-threaded and multi-process applications on Linux, with strong working knowledge of C++
• Detailed knowledge of object-oriented design and programming
• Proven experience with solving real-time embedded issues, including threading, optimization, memory management, interrupt handling, etc. in multi-core/multi-CPU environments
• Knowledge of networking protocols (TCP/IP), Sockets programming
• Understanding of 3GPP standards, 5G architecture desired
• Experience with cloud technologies (AWS/Azure) desired

Requirements

• Strong problem-solving and communication skills
• Must be a self-motivated individual with technical leadership potential and proven success in a structured development environment
• Possess the ability to proactively drive technical solutions in a collaborative environment
• Good software design skills using proven and best practice design methodologies & related principles; Strong command of Object-Oriented Design and Object-Oriented Programming techniques
• Demonstrated experience in developing quality and maintainable software
• Strong documentation and writing skills
• Strong technical leadership and mentoring of junior members of the team
• Excellent presentation skills required
• Software design skills with analytical problem-solving abilities
• Must be able to work in a fast-paced development environment
• Working knowledge of UML is strongly desirable
• Knowledge of professional software engineering practices and best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
• Experience/knowledge in satellite/terrestrial communications systems is desired
• Working experience with tools such as GDB and Valgrind
• Experience with version control systems (such as git) is strongly desired
• Experience with Jira and Jenkins desired
• Experience developing unit tests, integration tests, and functional testing, including the development of related test automation integrated in a CI/CD pipeline desired
• Scripting using shell scripting or Python desired