Software Engineer Jobs

Job Summary

Leonardo DRS Electro-Optical and Infrared Systems is seeking a talented Embedded Software Engineer to join our growing team, position open for a new grad or up to 2 years of experience. You will work on portable state-of-the-art Infra-red night vision scopes that are used by military special ops teams, and others protecting US interests. The software on these scopes runs on embedded processors, or integrated processor/FPGA devices residing on boards designed in-house. The software is generally “C” code running either bare-metal or within an RTOS such as FreeRTOS or uCOS, and includes boot-up, self-test, control code, GUI, peripheral drivers, wireless communications, and reprogramming. We pride ourselves on our culture of friendliness and teamwork here at DRS. Our Engineers find their work environments unique as they are not locked into a single task. You will be involved in processes from start to finish with opportunities for exploration!

Job Responsibilities

• Provide regular reporting of progress and status
• Support and participate in technical activity
• Review customer specifications and requirements, and under direction, develop designs to best support them, including cost as a key design variable
• Design, develop, analyze, document and support testing of products, systems or subsystems
• Support, communicate, reinforce and defend the mission, values and culture of the organization
• Attend appropriate engineering, customer or business meetings
• Responsible for completion of assigned task on time and meeting technical requirements
• Involved with the design, development, analysis, testing and debugging of computer software applications and/or systems. May include Image and Signal Processing, Real-time, Firmware, Nuclear/Hi-Rel, FAA Certified, Database Design, Operating Systems, Operator/Machine Interface, or others. Develop software tools including operating systems, compilers, routers, networks, utilities, databases, and Internet-related tools. Determine hardware compatibility. Complete documentation and procedures for installation and maintenance. Interact with users to define system requirements and/or necessary modifications.
• Ability to work independently under supervision of others
• Support the program design to cost and design for manufacture requirements
• May use computer-aided engineering or other design/analysis software in the performance of assignments
• Specify and evaluate supplier components, subsystems and services
• May participate in preparation of less complex proposals
• Develop prototypes to retire key development risks as directed
• Communicate clearly (written and oral) with other company personnel and the customer as required

Qualifications

• Novice technical expertise and application domain knowledge