Principal Embedded Software Engineer

Capgemini and Cambridge Consultants

The Cambridge Consultants brand under Capgemini develops breakthrough products, creates and licenses intellectual property, and provides business consultancy in technology-critical issues for clients worldwide. For more than 50 years, the company has been helping its clients turn business opportunities into commercial successes, whether they are launching first-to-market products, entering new markets, or expanding existing markets through the introduction of new technologies.

The Capgemini Group is a global leader in partnering with companies to transform and manage their business by harnessing the power of technology. The Group is guided every day by its purpose of unleashing human energy through technology for an inclusive and sustainable future. It is a responsible and diverse group of 340,000 team members in more than 50 countries, reporting 2023 Global revenues of €22.5 billion. With its strong over 55-year heritage, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to unlock the value of technology to address the entire breadth of their business needs.

Role Description

The newly-formed Embedded Software (ESW) group in North America develops innovative new technology to enable world-leading wireless communications capabilities for US Government applications. We are looking for talented, experienced ESW engineers to strengthen our embedded development function in this team.

In this role you will design and develop prototype systems that demonstrate novel capabilities for a diverse range of products. Whereas Cambridge Consultants has produced innovations linked below for commercial entities, our team has been spun out in order to provide this sort of advanced capability for US Government clients.

• Ultra-reliable communications for satellites
• IP block acceleration of Voice Activity Detection using custom in-house DSP cores 
• Map-based indoor navigation using sensor fusion
• Next generation commercial radio receiver design
• Communications system for a fleet of bots in a challenging indoor environment

You’ll engage with clients that are stretching the art of the possible by combining state-of-the-art technologies and tools with a practical approach to implementation on a wide variety of processing platforms.

What we offer

You’ll have the opportunity to steer your career along the path of your choice, whether you prefer meeting and talking with clients or leading teams on innovative projects. Our collaborative and supportive working environment allows our engineers to quickly develop their skills and knowledge in unfamiliar areas, enabling us to drive development of cutting-edge technologies at a rapid pace.

As a member of this new team, you will be involved in every stage of our technology development life cycle, from developing proof-of-concept demonstrations for initial sales leads to designing, implementing, and testing innovative new products. In addition to day-to-day project work you’ll also play a part in creating the Capgemini of tomorrow: contributing to new IP generation, influencing the direction or our ESW skillset development, and evolving our capabilities in groundbreaking new technologies.

What you’ll bring

• A passion for embedded development with a desire to broaden your horizons in new and exciting areas
• MS/BS with 7+ years of experience in a field related to embedded software development
  (e.g., computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, physics, etc.)
• Strong C, C++, or Rust programming and software engineering skills
• Experience in embedded real-time programming
• Good testing habits: unit testing, system testing, regression testing, etc.
• Verbal and written communication skills to convey your designs and ideas to teams

The following are not required, but experience in any of these areas would be advantageous

• Experience with common microprocessors, microcontrollers, SoCs, wireless protocols, and communication interfaces
• Experience using and writing drivers for common controllers, busses, and related technologies (I2C, SPI, UART, PCIe, DMA)
• Networking experience including