Senior Embedded Software Engineer

Senior Embedded Software Engineer – Somerset West.

A renowned manufacturing aerospace engineering company is looking for a Senior Embedded Software Engineer to join their team on a full-time permanent basis in the Helderberg Area, Cape Town.

Excellent salary on offer and internal career advancement opportunities.

• The Senior Embedded Software Engineer will be responsible for developing and maintaining high-reliability embedded software for satellite subsystems, with emphasis on real-time communication and signal-processing systems.
• Develop all aspects of an embedded system software implementation, including creating, debugging and testing software, as well as supporting hardware integration
• Optimize code for memory, efficiency, and speed on resource-constrained devices
• Contribute to firmware architecture, code reviews, and documentation to maintain reliability and scalability
• Research, develop and testing of theoretical and conceptual designs
• Work as part of a multidisciplinary team to derive and define software requirements based on system-level requirements
• Create and maintain formal engineering documentation such as specifications, test procedures, design reports
• Attending requirement and proposal discussions with clients when required
• Other ad-hoc duties as required by company

• B.Sc/B.Eng degree in Electronic Engineering from a recognized institution
• Embedded software/firmware development (C, C++)
• Experience developing device drivers and low-level software for hardware interfaces such as ADC, GPIO, PWM, UART, SPI, and I2C
• Design and implement firmware in C/C++ for bare-metal and RTOS-based systems (e.g. FreeRTOS)
• Experience with version control systems (eg. git) and issue tracking tools (eg Jira, Youtrack)
• High-reliability electronic product design and realisation
• Practical experience testing and debugging electronic circuits
• Additional knowledge areas that would strengthen the application
  • Experience with ARM and/or RISC-V microprocessor architectures
  • Experience with embedded Linux, including application development; experience with driver and/or kernel development is a plus
  • Experience with test automation frameworks, and CI/CD pipelines
  • Experience with Rust
  • Experience in FPGA firmware development using Hardware Description Languages (HDLs) like Verilog or VHDL
  • Experience modelling DSP algorithms (FFT, filters) and communication waveforms in MATLAB / Python / etc.
  • Linux administrator proficiency.