SENIORSOFTWAREENGINEER- TeraWave

As a SeniorSoftware Engineer, you will play a vital leadership role within a team of specialists, technicians, and engineers, significantly contributing tothecontroland data plane architectureof the constellation.Your role will involve utilizing your expertise in softwaredevelopment forconstrained environments, real-time operating systems, high-speedhandling of data,andencryptionto develop and maintain complex software solutions. You will guide software development and optimization efforts, collaborating effectively with cross-functional teams to ensure optimal quality and performance of our systems.

Your ability to innovate, provide architectural direction, and deliver efficient solutions is crucial to managing the entire development process. Successful senior engineers not only meet complex requirements but also propose and implement innovative, cutting-edge solutions.

Special Mentions

• This role will be onsite inone of these locations –Greater Seattle Area, WA;Bay Area, CA; San Diego, CA.It is approved for temporaryremote work exception while our local site is developed

• Relocation assistance available

• Travel may berequiredup to 10% of the time

Responsibilities include but are not limited to: 

• Design and develop multi-threaded embedded software in C/C++ to run on Linux/RTOS/Bare-metal platforms, hosted on multi-core SoCs,  

• Implement custom device drivers and management/control/data plane functions for Satellite RF transceivers, Antenna systems and Optical systems on TeraWave’s Satellite Payload, Customer terminals and Ground Gateway Terminals. 

• Single-threaded software owner of a designated given system area, responsible for leading feasibility studies, prototyping, defining extensible software architecture. 

• Define and develop strategies for scaling, fault-tolerance and recovery. 

• Define performance KPIs (processing latencies, throughput, algorithmic efficiency) and develop methods for measurements and optimization of resources (compute, memory, storage, network and I/O). 

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate software with hardware systems. 

• Contribute to technical documentation, code reviews, and system architecture decisions 

• Troubleshoot problems and debug issues using telemetry, logs/traces, code instrumentation, and software and hardware debugging tools. 

• Champion embedded software development, testing and troubleshooting best practices – including CI/CD, test and data analysis automation, TDD.  

• Lead the team from front in delivering with speed and quality, andmentor a team of highly skilled software engineers, fostering technical excellence and innovation

Minimum Qualifications 

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field 

• 5+ years of experience in embedded software development in C/C++ to run on Linux/RTOS/Bare-metal platforms. 

• Strong proficiency in C++ object-oriented design and implementation. 

• Hands-on expertise in embedded systems debugging using SW and HW tools (JTAG, SWD, CoreSight, Lauterbach/Trace32, J-Link, J-Trace etc.) 

• Experience with developing applications that use standard peripherals – SPI, I3C, I2C, PCIe, CAN etc. 

• Experience with Linux networking and inter-core/processor communications between applications that use high-speed data-plane interfaces – Ethernet, Interlaken, JESD etc.  

• Experience with with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and Test-Driven Development  

• Experience leading software development teams and mentoring junior engineers 

• Experience with Agile or Scaled Agile development methodologies 

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills 

• Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum. 

Preferred Qualifications 

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field 

• 7+ years of experience in embedded software development for mission-critical systems 

• Experience in developing embedded software in or more of these areas - satellite communications systems, space-based networks, cellular wireless, terrestrial telecommunications systems. 

• Experience with one or more of these areas - Software defined radios, RF transceivers and antenna systems control (preferably phased arrays, parabolic antennas), Optical transceivers (ACOs, DCOs) 

• Experience with developing drivers for proprietary and merchant silicon (DSPs, mixed signal processors, modems, etc.).

• Experience with formal verification methods for safety-critical software

• Knowledge of radiation-hardened computing environments and related software considerations