Embedded Software Engineer III

Overview

Iridium is an award-winning and innovative satellite communications company with bragging rights to the only network that offers voice and data connectivity anywhere in the world. For over 20 years, Iridium’s unique network and services have supported critical communications needs for individuals, businesses, and the evolving Internet of Things.

At Iridium, we understand the importance of staying connected and the limitations of traditional communications networks. People across the globe, including first responders, humanitarians, global militaries, scientific researchers, and lone workers, as well as ships, aircraft and remote operations all rely on Iridium to stay connected. We take our responsibility for providing these essential communications very seriously and pride ourselves on offering a reliable lifeline when needed.

Likewise, Iridium is committed to providing an exciting and innovative workplace, where employees are challenged to think outside the box and collaborate on new, bold ideas and solutions. Our talented teams are passionate about their work and the impact our company makes around the world. Iridium fosters an empowering and inclusive culture that allows employees to genuinely be their best selves.

We are looking for others who want to join this truly unique company that celebrates our employees and provides the opportunity to truly make a difference in the world.

What We’re Looking For:

Iridium is seeking an Embedded Software Engineer III to join our Mobile Product Software Engineering Team! As an Embedded Software Engineer, you will be responsible for enhancing and sustaining the source code used in our mobile products and associated engineering tools. In this role, you’ll gain valuable experience working on software for Iridium’s transceivers while contributing to the development of high-quality products for our customers.

If you are passionate about creating reliable and robust products, committed to the long-term success of your work, and highly self reliant, you’ll thrive in this position.

What You’ll Do:

• Design and develop embedded software for microcontrollers ensuring high-quality, performance, and reliability
• Implement and optimize real-time operating systems, device drivers, and communication protocols
• Debug and troubleshoot reported firmware issues, ensuring timely resolution
• Reproduce, isolate and debug complex low-level problems that may span between hardware and software interfaces
• Integrate, build, and manage embedded software configuration
• Write and maintain unit, regression and pairwise test suites for mobile product software
• Create and maintain documentation, including software requirements, ICDs, test plans and procedures
• Review work products created by other team members
• Collaborate with software, hardware, and system development engineers
• Work cross functionally to instill a strong culture of product quality within the organization

What You’ll Need to Succeed:

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or a related technical field with 5+ years of relative software experience, including:
  • 3+ years’ experience developing embedded software, preferably for microcontrollers
  • 4+ years’ experience developing software in C; solid understanding of ANSI C, common data structures and memory management techniques
• Familiarity with asynchronous event driven paradigms
• Proven experience in embedded systems design with preemptive, multitasking, real-time operating systems
• Excellent knowledge of OSI model, networking protocols, interfaces, and hardware subsystems
• Solid understanding of communication protocols such as UART, SPI, and I2C
• Adequate knowledge of reading schematics and data sheets for components
• Experience with benchmarking algorithm performance on embedded systems using software and hardware techniques
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to confidently present products, deliverables, analyses, and/or issues
• Possess an analytical mindset, with the ability to understand a situation or problem and think critically to make decisions or come up with solutions
• Be comfortable managing upward, including being a…