Senior Embedded Software Engineer

Swift Navigation is hiring. Let us introduce ourselves. Swift is changing the way we navigate and understand the world. Swift’s precise positioning technology platform improves location accuracy from several meters to centimeter-level and is used by millions of devices across the globe. Swift’s technology is trusted by users across industries, enabling safer driving, improving efficiency for last-mile delivery and commercial transport operations, increasing accuracy for mobile devices and creating new possibilities for rail, robotics and machine control. That’s what we offer our customers and partners, but it’s the work we do together as a team that is the best part of our days. We collaborate—across the globe—to tackle problems, to pursue our mission and to make a real impact in the world. We are diverse, flexible, supportive and we believe our team is our most important asset and offer a host of benefits and programs to ensure that they know it.

Swift Navigation is looking for an outstanding Senior Embedded Software Engineer with cross-platform architecture experience to work on the core of our GNSS receiver technology. You will be working with a small team to push the state of the art in satellite navigation technology, making high accuracy positioning ubiquitous and easy to use across a wide variety of industries and applications in unmanned aerial vehicles, robotics, and autonomous transportation. Your focus will be the development of platform software to support multiple embedded targets which will power next generation receivers in the autonomy space. You will own the full lifecycle of development for important new features, beginning with prototyping and design, through implementation, testing, verification and release.

Candidates should have skills and experience with:

• Cross-platform systems software architecture (platform abstraction, interface design)
• 3 to 6 years of Modern C++, C and python programming skills required
• Strong Linux experience is required 
• Writing production level code
• Performance and memory optimization techniques
• Unit and sub-system test generation
• Writing design documentation
• Using JIRA for tracking work
• Git (or relevant version control system)

Strong candidates will also possess skills in one or more of:

• ASIL code safety standards for autonomous vehicles
• Modern CMake
• Exposure to board level communication (SPI, I2C, etc) and peripheral driver support

Ideal candidates will also have an interest in, or experience with, one or more of the following:

• Build Automation (Travis, Jenkins, NixOS, Docker, Ansible)
• Continuous Integration (GTest, Valgrind, Clang Tools, Code Coverage, Static Analysis)
• Automotive/Safety OS (AUTOSAR Classic/Adaptive, QNX, SELinux)
• Embedded Linux Environments (Yocto, Buildroot, OpenWRT)

Perks

• Flexible vacation, competitive salary
• Tech talks, mentorship programs, employee events.
• Growth and learning opportunities from a tech environment include working closely with an international team of scientists, engineers, platform architects, programmers, executive staff and professionals.

Swift Navigation is a diverse and inclusive team. We are an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds to apply regardless of race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability status or other defining characteristics.

Swift Navigation will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of SFPC Art.49