Coherent Corp. · 18 hours ago
Principal Embedded Software Engineer
Horsham, PA
Full-time
Onsite
Lead/Staff
$97K/yr - $189K/yr
8+ years expCoherent Corp. is a global leader in lasers, engineered materials and networking components, and they are seeking a Principal Embedded Software Engineer. The role involves designing and developing software features, coaching junior engineers, and ensuring accurate firmware documentation while collaborating with various engineering teams.
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Responsibilities
Design and develop software features based on high level customer and product line management requirements
Develop new features for existing and future products
Resolving bugs and other sustaining issues legacy products
Work with validation and integration engineers optical, hardware and test engineering teams to continuously improve product performance, execution efficiency, and development processes
Ensure firmware documentation is accurate and up to date
Coaching junior software engineers. Drive coding reviews and practices across team
Pre and Post sales customer interactions, provide guidance to Field Application Engineers
Provide input to documentation team
Qualification
Required
University degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science
8+ years of experience in embedded software systems
Expert in C and C++ programming in embedded systems
Experience with software functions for system products, such as North-Bound Interface, Platform infrastructure, BSP and Applications such as Photonic control, alarms, PMs, Service Management
Practical experience across the entire Agile development lifecycle, including continuous integration, continuous deployment (CI/CD), and collaboration through DevOps practices
Familiar with networking protocols (Netconf, Openfig, etc ) and security protocols
Able to work and deliver on an aggressive schedule
Familiar with virtualization and container technologies
Good written and oral communication skills in English
Experience in cross-site development with global teams
Programming languages: C/C++, Go, Python
Object-oriented design
Linux multi-process design, multi-thread design
Preferred
Experience in Optical Networking industry is preferred (L0 and/or L1 equipment)
Experience in Open-Source code, such as SONiC, FRRouting, Open vSwitch etc., will be a plus
Knowledge of Chinese is an asset
Benefits
Competitive compensation program
Comprehensive career development platform
Company
Coherent Corp.
Coherent empowers market innovators to define the future through breakthrough technologies, from materials to systems.
10001+ employees
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Funding
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$3.44BKey Investors
JP Morgan Chase
2025-09-26Post Ipo Debt· $3.03B
2021-05-07Post Ipo Equity· $410M
1987-10-09IPO
Leadership Team
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CFO and Treasurer
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Giovanni Barbarossa
Chief Strategy Officer & President Materials Segment
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