Principal Software Engineer (m/f/d)

If you are a Software Development professional looking to grow your career, Emerson has an outstanding opportunity for you! NI is now the Test & Measurement (T&M) Business Unit of Emerson, and we are seeking an experienced Software Engineer for embedded and driver software products! As a member of a product team, developers collaborate frequently with product architects, product managers, and other software engineers to implement designs in an agile/scrum software development environment.  

 
Position Overview  

Emerson - NI is looking for engineers who are passionate about crafting, developing, and maintaining sophisticated software systems while delivering value to customers.  This position requires outstanding interpersonal skills, taking ownership over design decisions, collaboration with peers and customers alike, and a proficient understanding of how your work will be used by your customers.  

  
In this Role, Your Responsibilities Will Be: 

• Deliver product features by participating in research, design, development, and documentation efforts. 

• Collaborate with team members and project leaders on design discussions and code architecture. 

• Specify, design, and implement new product features. 

• Troubleshoot product defects and work with team to resolve successfully. 

• Develop tests to ensure high code quality and catch future regressions. 

• Peer review code changes submitted by other members of the team. 

• Participate in team activities including standups, backlog reviews, retrospectives, and brainstorming sessions. 

• Explore and apply new technologies to continually improve our infrastructure and processes.  

 
Who You Are: 

You are passionate about technology and are dedicated to delivering a high-quality product to enable customer success. You research initiatives and try new approaches. You stay aligned with your goals and stay productive. You make connections and build relationships with your colleagues, focusing on creating and effective collaborative style. You take time to ask questions and define the problem and make learning a priority and a goal. You dig for root causes of a problem and look for patterns. You try different solutions for problems and learn from the results. 

 
For This Role, You Will Need: 

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or Engineering (or similar) 
• In-depth experience with networking security protocols such as IPsec, MACsec, MKA, TLS/SSL, and IKE, including: 
  • Fundamental understanding of each standard, including their respective use-cases and benefits within the automotive industry 

• 8+ years of software development experience 

• Object oriented programming and proficiency in C++ 

• Implementation experience developing software compliant with these standardsExperience with embedded Linux including developing and maintaining custom Linux distributions and optimizing for performance and security.  

• Understanding of good software design and computer architecture principles including:  
  • Data structures  
  • Familiarity with embedded, kernel or low level hardware/software integration  
  • Operating system components and design 

• Experience with Agile methodology. 

• Experience with testing frameworks. 
• Demonstrated ability to: 
  • Problem-solve effectively - diagnose technical issues and propose reasonable solutions; enjoy problem solving
  • Take initiative, be a self-starter, and work independently
  • Persistently drive tasks and projects to successful completion 
  • Take ownership of goals and project schedules 
  • Listen attentively and grasp fast-paced technical conversations 
  • Quickly learn applicable technology, systems, and products
  • Passion for learning about and working with computer-industry technologies 
  • Strong work ethic and drive to succeed 

Preferred Qualifications that Set You Apart:

• Work productively in a team development environment 
• Innovative, out of the box thinker.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices. 
• Familiarity with Yocto, OpenEmbedded  
• Experience integrating 3rd party and open source IP 
• Experience with Azure DevOps 
• Experience programming in LabVIEW 
• Familiarity with NI products 

  

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