Software/Firmware Engineer

Software/Firmware Engineer

Job Category: Engineering

Time Type: Full time

Minimum Clearance Required to Start: Secret

Employee Type: Regular

Percentage of Travel Required: Up to 10%

Type of Travel: Local

Anticipated Posting End: 4/26/2025

The Opportunity:

Perform research, design and Software/Firmware development and utilize Electrical Engineering and RF skills in various aspects of wireless communications systems on multiple hardware platforms utilizing Linux and/or Unix-based operating systems. And also be responsible for complex analysis, design, development, integration/testing of software/hardware systems.
More About this Role: This section should outline the primary responsibilities of the position.

Responsibilities:

• Develop design specifications needed to implement, test and document software/firmware solutions for communication systems and/or subsystems
• Analyze, architect, design, implement, test and document software for complex communications systems, including automated testing
• Support DevSecOps
• Operate effectively and comfortably in an Agile team environment, as a team member and as a team leader as needed
• Understand and adhere to all CACI Ethical and Compliance policies
• Proactively ensure a safe work environment and adhere to LGS EH&S policies and procedures
• Perform other duties as required
• Travel to other CACI Locations or Customer Sites as necessary
• Retain a government security clearance at the level required to perform the duties of the position

Qualifications:

​

Required Skills:

• Active Secret security clearance
• Bachelors/Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or Computer Engineering
• 5+ years of related experience, to include engineering and leadership, or an equivalent combination of education, skills, and experience
• In-depth experience in software engineering and development for communications systems, architectural innovation and technical leadership
• Broad experience with the software engineering process from requirements reviews, code inspection to component delivery and sign-off
• Development experience on multiple hardware platforms utilizing either Linux or Unix-based operating systems
• C and Assembly Programming
• Experience working in both SW and HW domains
• Ability to read and understand schematics
• Low level debugging techniques (SW, probes, oscilloscopes)
• CPU Embedded SW programming and development
• Microcontrollers
• TI MSP430 or similar
• Experience developing Microcontroller firmware
• Experience debugging Microcontroller FW SW functionality
• Bootloaders development (U-Boot/GRUB/Barebox) for new ARM/x86 designs
• HW initialization
• Device drivers
• Boot Loader application functionality
• HW/SW integration activities
• RF development
• SDR Radio knowledge and actual experience
• Knowledge of basic RF concepts and RF Amplifiers
• Test automation experience
• Experience with build/run systems, makefiles, scripting languages, and applied use of development tools (e.g. editors/compliers) and DevSecOps
• Proven confidence debugging complex system-level issues with various lab equipment
• Participation and leadership in an Agile development environment
• Knowledge of Python Programming Language
• Python packaging

Desired:

• Linux Operating Systems development for new ARM/x86 designs
• Linux Kernel, Driver, Device Tree, Filesystem development
• Knowledge of Yocto development flow
• Experience with OS bring up on new HW designs
• Understanding of Linux multi process/multi-threaded/multi SMP processor programming
• Experience with Container functionality and development
• Understand and have Linux and non-Linux experience (from a HW and SW perspective) the following:
• Ethernet 1G/10G, PCI, I2C MDIO, SPI, SPI Flash, Flash
• Sensors - Temperature/ADC/DAC, GPS, PPS
• Network configuration and development for new HW designs
• L2 Switch functionality
• Port configurations, subnets, VLANs
• Experience in platform level SW Architecture development
• C++, XML Programming
• Object Oriented programming and design

-

________________________________________________________________________________________

What You Can Expect:

 

A culture of integrity.

At CACI