Embedded Controls Software Engineer - Black Mountain, NC

Founded in 1918, Kearfott Corporation, a global Aerospace and Defense supplier for over 100 years, is a leader in the design and manufacture of precision motion control products and inertial navigation components. Kearfott has a very long history of innovation and excellence and is the go‑to brand for many of our global clients. Kearfott is trusted, respected and plays a vital role in the success of America’s aerospace and defense industries.

With over a century of expertise & experience, Kearfott is dedicated to providing quality, reliability, and cutting‑edge technology to customers worldwide to meet their sea, land, air, and space navigation and guidance requirements. Kearfott offers a comprehensive benefits package including a 401(k) and Tuition Reimbursement. We offer a 9/80 schedule with every other Friday off. We are looking for talented individuals who want to be part of a world‑class workforce.

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• Supporting and/or leading the design and development of software, software tools, and tests for electromechanical actuation systems used in aircraft, missiles, land‑based products, and space‑based products.
• Evaluating and/or decomposing customer requirements – both technical and programmatic – and generating lower‑level requirements for software/firmware and test stand elements of actuation programs.
• Supporting technical program managers with schedule, task, and cost performance tracking.
• Supporting the development team to ensure design choices meet customer requirements.
• Supporting proposal efforts, prototype development and other New Product Introduction (NPI) activities culminating in the transition of new products into production.
• Supporting software development tools evaluation, testing, and implementation.
• Supporting software development processes implementation and maintenance.
• Acting as a focal point for technical information exchange with and between team members from other disciplines (electrical, mechanical, sensors/motors).

• Travel as required to support market development and customer needs.
• Support proposal efforts.
• Support and advance relationships with our customers and their engineering teams.

• Supports software requirements development and maintenance for aerospace and defense electromechanical actuation systems applications.
• Evaluates, maintains, and potentially creates software requirements developed from end‑item and/or systems specifications, and creates/evaluates requirements/test/code traceability using IBM Rational DOORS (Dynamic Object‑Oriented Requirements System).
• Supports and may perform coding for embedded applications, PC‑based applications, scripts, and development tools.
• Supports and may perform integration of mechanical, electrical, software/firmware, and test project artifacts to ensure the system meets customer requirements.
• Reviews customer/system specifications, assesses compliance of the software to the requirements – working either independently or directly in conjunction with customer representatives.
• Understands FAA, EASA, or military certification requirements, and follows associated design/development processes.
• Understands system safety, reliability, and maintainability aspects of the product.
• Knowledge of performance modeling using MATLAB/Simulink, PLECS or similar tools.
• Supports cost proposal activity for embedded code development (code, tests, documentation, and tools).
• Supports development efforts for customer funded projects as well as IR&D projects.
• Supports product design analysis.
• Supports project management with task tracking and potentially task definition.

• Understanding of embedded programming:
  • C coding language.
  • Interrupts.
  • Operating Systems and task management (timing, prioritization, schemes).
• Requirements development, management, and traceability.
• Verification testing – implementation and concepts.
• Understanding of file…