Intermediate Embedded Software Engineer Job Bedford area,Massachusetts USA,Software Development

At MITRE, your passion fuels work that impacts our nation and improves lives. This is where your skills strengthen national security, cybersecurity, health, transportation, and citizen services. We’re a nonprofit engineering, applied research, and advanced technology organization working in the public interest. With objectivity and integrity at our core, we lead federally funded research and development centers for U.S. government agencies – collaborating with industry and academia to deliver integrated, high-impact solutions that advance our nation’s health, security, and prosperity.

Our people tackle the toughest technical challenges, supported by competitive benefits, meaningful career development, and a culture of innovation, collaboration, and technical excellence. Choose MITRE for a career with purpose — and help shape the future.

We specialize in rapid prototyping of advanced sensor, communication and navigation systems on real-time embedded platforms. As an applied research organization, we focus on capability development and demonstration while remaining decoupled from protracted product life cycles and system support roles. Our world class labs provide a canvas for our team to conduct hands-on research and develop tangible solutions to support our military leaders and reinforce our nation’s defense.

As part of our team, you will have the opportunity to design and implement technical solutions for a wide range of challenges currently faced by our government sponsors.

Roles & Responsibilities :

Working on cross-disciplinary teams of similarly bright and motivated engineers on projects of national importance
Real-time communication and sensor systems leveraging state of the art processors, FPGA & SoC technology and cutting-edge SDR platforms
Advanced architectures for high throughput signal processing
Low size, weight, power and cost (SWaP-C), highly integrated custom platforms
A supportive culture of learning, professional growth, and development
Opportunities to build on skills and work on a diverse range of projects
Outstanding continuing education programs

Basic Qualifications:

Typically requires a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or related AND a minimum of 2 years of related experience; or an advanced degree with relevant experience who can immediately contribute at this job step; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience.
High level of proficiency in C and/or C++ programming languages.
Very familiar with good software development practices, including: approaches to design, implementation, testing, documentation, and debugging.
Very good understanding of embedded systems and hardware/software interaction.
Intermediate knowledge of low-level processor architectures, operating system concepts, and hardware interfacing.
Applicants selected for this position will be subject to a US government security investigation and must be able to obtain and maintain a Department of Defense SECRET clearance, which requires US citizenship
In addition, candidates must meet requirements to support project work onsite in our labs and classified facilities on the Bedford Campus
This position requires a minimum of 4 days a week on-site at our Bedford, MA facility.

Preferred Qualifications:

M.S. in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or similar field
Active Secret Clearance
Experience with object-oriented programming principles and working knowledge of one or more higher-level languages such as Python, MATLAB, or Perl.
Understanding of modern reconfigurable SoC platforms (AMD Xilinx MPSoC, RFSoC, Versal, or Intel Agilex SoC)
Understanding of common software development tools (e.g., Git, Make, CMake).
Experience with development best practices including code reviews, regression testing, and user documentation.
Experience with real-time operating systems, POSIX, embedded Linux (user- and kernel-space development).
Experience with low-level hardware/software system debugging.
Good foundation of basic digital signal processing (DSP) concepts and experience implementing real-time algorithms for communication, radar, or navigation…