Embedded Software Engineer

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MITRE's Electronic Systems Development and Embedded Security department is seeking to hire talented and creative engineers with a background in embedded software engineering to support advanced research and development projects of national significance.

Qualified candidates will join a team of technical experts focused on prototyping electronic systems. This multi-disciplinary team performs hands-on research and analysis and develops proof-of-concept prototypes to demonstrate and advance the state-of-the-art in embedded systems. Our diverse set of sponsors and research objectives provide a wide variety of interesting work opportunities.

Roles and Responsibilities:

Our team specializes in rapid prototyping of advanced sensor, communication, and navigation systems on state-of-the-art embedded system platforms. This position provides an exciting opportunity to work on and with:

• Cross-disciplinary teams of similarly bright and motivated engineers on projects of national importance.
• Real-time communication and sensor systems leveraging state of the art FPGA & SoC technology and cutting-edge SDR platforms.
• Advanced architectures for high-throughput signal processing.
• Highly integrated, and low size, weight, power and cost (SWaP-C) custom platforms.
• A supportive culture of learning, professional growth, and development.
• A diverse range of projects to build your skills.
• An advanced degree with our outstanding continuing education programs.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Applicants selected for this position will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.
• Candidates must meet requirements to support project work onsite in our labs and classified facilities on the Bedford Campus.
• 1 year of related experience with a related Bachelor's degree, or equivalent combination of related education and work experience. Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, or similar program.
• Understanding of embedded systems and hardware/software interaction.
• Familiarity with object-oriented programming including a working knowledge of one or more common languages such as C++, C, Python, etc.
• Understanding of good software development practices including approaches to design, implementation, testing, documentation, and debugging.
• Basic knowledge in one or more of the following: low-level processor architectures, operating system concepts, and hardware interfacing.
• Effective oral and written communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• M.S. or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering.
• Exposure to cutting-edge, reconfigurable SoC platforms (i.e. Xilinx MPSoC, Xilinx RFSoC, Xilinx Versal, Intel Arria 10 SoC)
• Solid understanding of development practices including design and code reviews, testing and regression, revision control, and user documentation.
• Familiarity with scripting languages and build tools (TCL, Python, CMake, etc.).
• Solid foundation of basic signal processing concepts and exposure to MATLAB or Python for signal processing
• Exposure to GPU or DSP programming for signal processing applications.
• Experience implementing real-time signal processing algorithms for communication, RADAR, and/or navigation applications.
• Familiarity with real time operating systems, POSIX, embedded Linux user and kernel environments.
• Experience with low-level hardware/software system debugging.
• Familiarity with commercial wired and wireless networking protocols.
• Autonomous and with demonstrated ability to provide deliverables or parts of deliverables to customers.
• Familiarity with Git or related source control management tools, and their best practices.

This requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s):

None

This requisition requires the hired candidate to have or obtain, within one year from the date of hire, the following clearance(s):

Secret

Work Location Type:

Hybrid

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