Software Engineer Specialist (3-5 years' experience) - General Dynamics Land Systems US
Sterling Heights, MI 48310
About the Job
About the Role:
The Software Engineer Specialist will focus on integration support for vehicle electronic system. General Dynamics is looking to hire a highly motivated Engineer to support our vehicle infrastructure OS/BSP team. This role will specialize in ground vehicle combat weapons computer system development.
Company Information
General Dynamics is a successful Fortune 100, global aerospace and defense company, with over 90,000 employees world-wide. General Dynamics Land Systems, a business unit of General Dynamics, has a strong foundation of delivering core engineering and manufacturing capabilities to our clients for military vehicles. Our team is focused on continuous process and productivity improvements that reduce product costs, while increasing troop safety and effectiveness. Land Systems continues to work with the US Armed Forces and its Allies to ensure these vehicles remain survivable, relevant, flexible, affordable and capable of addressing a dynamic threat environment.
Hybrid/Onsite: Due to the nature of the work, this role may require on-site presence up to 100%.
What We Offer:
Starting your career or you are an experience professional, we offer a Total Rewards package that is Impactful and built for you.
- Healthcare including medical, dental, vision, HSA and Flex Spending
- competitive base pay, incentive pay that rewards individual and team performance, and comprehensive benefits.
- 401k Match (6%)
- Educational Assistance/Tuition Reimbursement up to $10k annual
- 9-80 Work Schedule (This position’s standard work schedule is a 9/80. The 9/80 schedule allows employees who work a nine-hour day Monday through Thursday to take every other Friday off.)
- On-going learning opportunities within a diverse, inclusive and rewarding work environment
- Onsite Cafeteria, remodeled with new equipment Fitness Center, and Outdoor fitness track
- Employee Resources Groups (ERG's) - Organized groups consisting of colleagues with shared interests and experiences.
About this role:
- Leads activities to develop, document and maintain architectures, requirements, algorithms, interfaces, and designs for software systems. Leads development of code and integration of complex software components into a fully functional software system
- Develops software verification plans, test procedures and test environments, executing the test procedures and documenting test results to ensure software system requirements are met
- Load components with software images, in order to deploy official software releases in lab environments and vehicles.
- Building and configuring VxWorks, Linux, or other embedded operating systems.
- Perform Linux system programming tasks, including driver development and new hardware enablement on embedded Linux systems.
- Integrate various software into build systems.
- Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain and improve software
- Enable embedded system security using cryptography and secure architectures.
- Manage individual priorities, deadlines, deliverables.
- Performance optimization of systems and complex pipelines.
- Other duties as assigned.
Minimum Qualifications / What you must have
- Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Computer Science or Electrical Engineering required.
- 3-5 years relevant work experience.
- Ability to troubleshoot low level software issues and distinguish between hardware and software issues
- Capable of developing C and / or C++ code that can be maintained and updated over decades
- Experience with the full software development life cycle: requirements, use-cases, architecture, design, testing, integration, deployment, etc...
- Experience with safety critical systems or real time systems is desirable
- Strong understanding of programming in an asynchronous environment with multiple processes, threads, timers, interrupts, etc.
- Experience in dealing with existing, complex systems and codebases
- Working knowledge of hardware bring-up
- Excellent debugging skills
- Experience with one or more Linux system image build tools such as Buildroot, or in particular Yocto
- Experience with Eclipse, GIT, gcc, DOORs, Jira / Bitbucket / Confluence, gdb, or QT is a plus
- Experience with Agile, gitlab, Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment concepts, CI agents
- Experience with type I & II hypervisors is a plus
- Familiarity with common self-update strategies & open-source self-updaters is a strong plus
- Familiarity with security features such as SELinux, verified boot and trusted execution environments is a plus.
- Experience with Linux device drivers, bootloaders, memory maps or other system programming is a strong plus Demonstrated problem solving skills, learning capabilities, and multitasking capabilities
- Proficient in Microsoft Office suite applications
Additional Information / Desired Experience
This position will require US security clearance. (Non-US Citizens may not be eligible to obtain a security clearance)
This position may require the candidate to be able to climb on/off, work in, and work around military vehicles is desired. Must be able to pass ASR test (Anthropometric Size Requirement for confined space)
- Familiarity with the four areas of cyber; authentication, nonrepudiation, confidentiality, and integrity, as implemented through digital signatures and encryption.
- Enable embedded system security using cryptography and secure architectures.
- Experience with the new NIST quantum resistant algorithms.
- Be a self-starter and working in a fast-paced environment.
- The candidate will need to have strong written and oral communication skills and able to work with all levels of the organization and across functions.
- Organization will be essential due the volume of tasks and projects and being able to align with tight deadlines and lead times.
- Work environment will consist of prototype shop, laboratory, manufacturing, and office.
- Able to work overtime when required
- Able to bring continuous improvement processes and methodologies to the position. Strong communication, interpersonal, and organizational skills is required. Works well in team and individually.
- Candidate must have excellent communication skills.
- Previous experience working on ground combat Vehicles desired.
GDLS considers factors such as, scope/responsibilities of the position, candidate experience, education/training background, in addition to local market comparable and business considerations when extending an offer.
Source : General Dynamics Land Systems US
