Lead Systems Engineer

Job Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture, design, and development of new intelligent power technology products and production quality end to end systems
• Mentor colleagues in the use of company tools and techniques
• Evaluate any business requirements to determine potential solutions.
• Author high-quality, highly-performance, unit-tested code based on business and data engineering needs and lead code reviews
• Contribute to the development and maintenance of a reliable CI/CD pipeline to ensure the quality of our deliveries.
• Recommend, set up, integrate, and utilize development environments and frameworks as required for business and data engineering needs
• Convey complex technical processes to non-technical and business/marketing audiences
• Identify and communicate solutions for blockers or other technical challenges experienced during project lifetimes
• Document and demonstrate solutions by using flowcharts, diagrams, code comments, code snippets, and performance instruments
• Evaluate business requirements to determine potential solutions.
• Work directly with stakeholders, engineering, and test to create high quality solutions that solve end-user problems

Experience Required

• A minimum of a Bachelor-s or higher degree(s) in computer science, computer engineering, or software engineering
• 5+ years- of progressive experience in developing and designing Linux ARM/x86-based firmware and software.
• 3+ years- of experience in the software industry as a developer with a proven track record of delivering high quality products.
• 5+ years- of progressive experience in developing and designing real-time embedded firmware.
• 2+ years of experience designing and developing IoT and cloud-based software architectures, platforms, and frameworks
• Solid understanding of C/C++/Python and associated IDEs (Eclipse, IAR Embedded Workbench, PyCharm, etc.)
• Experience in optimising code, identifying bottlenecks and maximising performance on constrained hardware.
• Experience in delivery, deployment and maintenance of production Linux IoT systems, ideally within a Yocto or equivalent distribution model.
• Broad Linux development expertise covering Makefiles, CMake, cross-compilation, debugging, code coverage, unit testing, automation, and shell scripting
• Ability to translate complex technical requirements into a set of modular functional blocks designed for efficient use of memory, processing, and energy resources.
• Experience working with and leading software teams through Agile development methodologies and concepts.
• Experience building and extending libraries to support software functionality needs of other roles
• Strong problem solving and software debugging skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills including the ability to effectively explain technical concepts and solutions
• Strong communications and mentoring capabilities
• Abreast of upcoming software development/engineering tools, trends, and methodologies

Desired and Essential Skills

• Fog/Edge computing experience e.g. edge devices, gateways, basestations, and small cells targeting industrial IoT, Industry 4.0, smart cities, smart grids, and 5G
• Wired/wireless communications, networking, and transport protocols, service layers, message queues, and related technologies (WLAN, Bluetooth, mesh, cellular technologies, Ethernet/IPv4/IPv6, UDP, TCP, RDP, SNMP, Modbus, MQTT, ZeroMQ, AMQP, OPC UA)
• Experience integrating AI and ML models into low-cost, low power embedded devices.
• IoT/controller ARM/x86-based microcontroller development expertise
• Experience integrating AI and ML models into low-cost, low power embedded devices.
• Digital signal processing and transducer technologies e.g. sensor and actuator integration, discovery, & control, analysis, and low-latency decision control loop approaches
• Cybersecurity best practices, information and physical security, authentication, authorisation, and attestation