Senior Embedded Software Engineer

Heka makes the world better for all of us. Our engineers develop cool things: planes, trains, automobiles, radios, rockets... the cooler, the better! Grow your skill set and feel the satisfaction of evolving classical engineering disciplines like mechanical, software, electrical, industrial, systems, and additive manufacturing to state-of-the-art product development methodologies. Not cheaper, better, faster (yawn) but amazing, influential, and disruptive. Drive improvements and products to reality to improve humankind.

Our teams are hands-on, collaborative, and thought-provoking. We combine scientific methods of discovery and evolutionary engineering principles.

This position is contingent upon contract award. 
 

What you’ll do:

• Design and develop safety-critical software components for the flight software, including flight controls, battery management systems, controls, and actuators.

• Write multi-level requirements

• Software verification, validation, and testing using scripts and supporting documents

• Participate in planning, designing, scheduling, prioritizing, and tracking the project.

• Decompose item requirements into high-level and low-level software requirements in compliance with DO-178C.

What you need:

• Minimum of 7 years of experience

• Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related degree

• Experience with battery management systems  

• Proficiency with C

• Experience with 32-bit Microcontroller like STM32, ESP32, or any ARM Cortex

• Experience working with Microcontrollers at a low level – building BSP, drivers, bootloaders, with and without RTOS, bare-metal

• Understanding of communication standards and protocols (RS-422/485/232, CAN, ARINC-429, AFDX, Ethernet, TCP/IP, etc.)

• Familiarity with debugging environments 

• Experience with the documentation process and source control, Git preferred

• Experience with several SDLC methodologies

• Fluency with scripting languages like bash and Python

• Experience with MATLAB/Simulink

• Excellent organizational and communication skills

• A problem-solving constitution, with a curious mind for discovery, coupled with self-discipline and an intrinsic drive for continuous self-improvement

• A solid engineering or computer science background. Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related degree
• Ability to work on-site in Melbourne, Florida

Nice to have:

• Experience in flight control software or a related field

• Experience developing software complying with safety standards like DO-178C or ISO 26262 to high criticality levels (DAL-A/B)

• Familiarity with lab instruments such as oscilloscopes and bus analyzers

• Experience with Model Based Software development and certification (DO-331)