Lead MCA Platform Software Engineer

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Who will you be working with?

You will be part of MCA (Modular Control Architecture) software team. The MCA SW architecture is highly flexible, made up of many modular software, application, and hardware elements. While flexibility adds opportunity and capability, it also adds complexity, driving the importance of a robust platform SW and communication strategy. MCA is built on MBSE (Model Based System Engineering) principles for requirements management and test cases with full traceability built into the MBSE model.

How will you make a difference?

This MCA Platform Software Engineer will focus on delivering and sustaining an integrated series of board support packages (BSP), core software services, and middleware applications that are foundational to the MCA architecture. The Engineer will contribute to the definition of the strategy on which technologies to leverage, which security practices to employ, and will be responsible for implementing those strategies. This responsibility is cross functional in nature and requires close collaboration amongst various MCA teams.

What do we want to know about you?

• Bachelor of Science in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or other Engineering discipline

• Minimum of 7 years’ software engineering experience

• Experience in developing, modifying, and debugging device drivers, bootloaders, or board support packages

• Experience with Linux OS on embedded systems

• Knowledge of Linux kernel internals (scheduling, memory management, IPC, file systems, etc.)

• Experience with hardware/software integration, Docker, languages such as C/C++, Bash, Python

• Ability and willingness to travel as required

What will your typical day look like?

• Provide timely communications on significant issues, risks, or developments

• Plan individual work for assigned MCA platform software features as input to project plans

• Design, develop, maintain, and test MCA Platform SW: BSP, Platform Services, MCA Middleware applications to connect MCA Platform with Business Logic applications

• Ensure MCA Platform SW is robust against expected configurability, performance, cyber security, and quality requirements

• Review and refine control system-level requirements to understand design intent and reconcile with MCA Platform capabilities

• Derive MCA Platform software requirements and interfaces from system requirements, allocate them to MCA Platform software components

• Develop, review, and execute hardware/software and software/software test plans for unit testing and MCA Platform integration testing

• Lead and participate in MCA Platform software troubleshooting efforts to root cause failures and defects on the various test environments

• Prepare and present technical design decisions and results to internal and external customers

• Ensure proper documentation of technical data generated for the assigned projects and/or tasks consistent with engineering policies and procedures

• Support V&V through validation test cases execution on various test environments

• Provide timely communications on significant issues, risks, or developments

• Plan individual work for assigned MCA platform software features as input to pro