We have an outstanding career opportunity for anAdvanced Staff Engineer - Embedded to join a leading Company located in theGrand Rapids, MIsurrounding area. **US Citizenship is required.** **Candidate must possess an Active Top Secret/SCI Security Clearance.** As an Advanced Staff Engineer - Embedded you will play a vital role working with our customers designing , developing , and testing Embedded Software (Firmware), platforms and systems for our mission-critical technologies and products. You will work with a team of passionate and skilled engineers who share your vision of creating innovative and reliable embedded systems. To succeed in this position, you will need a background in embedded systems, a keen eye for detail, and a deep understanding of real-time systems and their constraints. You will also need to demonstrate your ability to take full ownership of your role and deliver high-quality software solutions. Job Responsibilities: + Design and/or program/develop a small module or a large component, feature, set of features, whole feature area or entire embedded software product. + Defines and formalizes system , hardware, software, and human integration requirements . + Define and execute engineering test, validation, and verification activities. + Follow established software development methodologies and principles and document your tasks and designs. + Validate and verify software designs in a diversity of system integration environments - from local desktop computer simulations to fully representative flight tests. + Implement protocols and algorithms for resource-constrained environments and collaborate with the hardware team to enable communication between modules and applications. + Ensure software robustness, resilience, and fail-safe operation for critical devices, and mitigate potential safety and security vulnerabilities. + Create detailed design and technical documentation, optimize existing applications, and implement new features. + Participate in task prioritization, execution, requirements, specifications, code and design reviews, and mentorship across the software development life cycle. + Apply best practices for software engineering and understand the key business drivers and product roadmap. + Deliver your work to support project scope, cost, and schedule targets, and interface effectively with all levels of the organization and customers. + Propose novel solutions to technical challenges, generate cost and time estimates for future bids and programs, and utilize hardware/software to demonstrate capability against customer expectations. Basic Hiring Criteria + Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering or related STEM field. + 8+ years of embedded software engineering experience or MS +5 years experience. + Proficiency in C, C++, or equivalent languages Desired Qualifications: + Master's degree in engineering or computer science with extensive experience in C/C++ for embedded software design, development, and testing. + Knowledge of scripting languages (Python, Perl, Tcl, etc.) and code management tools (Git, CVS, SVN, Perforce, etc.) + Proficiency in Ada language experience. + Experience with RTOS (Linux, FreeRTOS, QNX, VxWorks, etc.) and device drivers for complex systems using parallel processing, multi-threading, distributed processing, multi-core, SoM, signal processing, board support package (BSP), device drivers development, and / or application program interface (API) design. + Experience in integrating custom logic blocks into FPGA designs, including interfacing with various peripherals and communication protocols. + Knowledge of digital design principles and techniques for implementing custom logic functions. + Ability to work closely with hardware engineers to define and implement custom logic requirements. + Experience with embedded software testing, debugging, and integration on hardware using debuggers (gdb, lldb, etc.), test equipment (scopes, analyzers, multi-meters, etc.), and UARTs, JTAGs and oscilloscopes. + Experience working in mission-critical industries (aerospace, automotive, defense, first responder, medical devices, etc.) and turning CONOPS, Specifications or Requirements into software design, code, test plans and execution. + Innovative, critical thinking and troubleshooting skills and proficiency with IDEs, version control tools, defect tracking tools and scripting tools. + Experience with bare metal software design and optimization for cycles and memory and fundamental facility with compilers, build and source code control tools. + Experience with model-based engineering on Cameo. + Outstanding written and verbal communication skills. 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