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Boeing · 4 hours ago

Senior Embedded Software Architect (Virtual)

Plano, TX

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level

$142K/yr - $222K/yr

5+ years exp

Boeing is a leading aerospace company committed to fostering an inclusive work environment. They are seeking a Senior Embedded Software Architect to support their Software Engineering team, focusing on multicore analysis and integration for avionics software/hardware solutions.

AerospaceIndustrial

No H1B

Security Clearance Required

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Design, develop, test, debug, and maintain software integrated into embedded devices and systems, ensuring compliance with industry, customer, safety, and regulatory standards

Review, analyze, and translate customer requirements into software product designs for embedded devices and systems

Build and write code for embedded systems software tailored to specific specialized hardware and applications

Integrate embedded software with hardware components effectively

Provide guidance on software and hardware integration best practices

Implement current and emerging technologies, tools, frameworks, and regulatory changes relevant to software and hardware development

Test and debug software for embedded devices and systems to ensure functionality and reliability

Analyze, monitor, and enhance the efficiency and stability of embedded software systems

Integrate specific interference generators into our software environment, perform multicore interference analysis, and collect and analyze the results

Build test software to test the system under various worst-case conditions, collect and report on the results

Collect, document, and demonstrate compliance based on evidence from analysis

Support and/or lead the technical planning, investigation, testing, coaching, and documentation of multicore systems

Qualification

Embedded software developmentMulticore analysisCC++C# programmingSafety-critical softwareContinuous Integration/DeploymentReal-time systemsHardware/software integrationDO-178C compliancePerformance tuningMulticore interference mitigationTechnical planningCommunication skillsProblem-solving skillsTeam collaboration

Required

2+ years of experience do you have developing software in a multi-threaded execution, multi-core processor computing environment, where the use of semaphore variables are used to control access to common resources

5+ years of experience do you have writing embedded software within software development life-cycles

5+ years of experience do you have in real-time, near real-time, or embedded systems

5+ years of experience do you have programming in C, C++ or C#

Preferred

Bachelor of Science degree from an accredited course of study in engineering, engineering technology (includes manufacturing engineering technology), chemistry, physics, mathematics, data science, or computer science

Knowledge and experience with developing software in relation to one or more of the following standards: DO-178C to at least DAL-B (DAL-A preferred), NASA-STD-5001, MIL-STD-498, MIL-STD-882, MIL-HDBK-516C

Experience with customized software for single board computers

Strong understanding of embedded software, e.g., bootloaders, device drivers, OS schedulers, interrupts, network protocol stack such as UDP/IP, ARINC 653

Embedded experience with board bring-up, including configuring board, bootloaders (e.g., U-boot), device drivers, OS startup

Arm processor assembly language

Experience with performance tuning of high-speed I/O (e.g., PCIe, Gigabit Ethernet, USB)

Strong understanding of processor and board hardware, including: all elements of the memory hierarchy (cache, TLB, MMU, paging, interconnect, DDR controllers and memory banks), cache coherency protocols and set-associativity, Arm TrustZone, System-On-Chip (SoC), PCIe, Ethernet, interrupts, DMA

Understanding of processor architecture, including pipeline, out-of-order execution, branch prediction

Hardware-based debugging (e.g., JTAG), timing measurement, performance measurement

Experience in CI/CD DevOps (GitLab preferred)

Familiar with compiler and linker, code optimization, stack/heap utilization

Expertise with virtualization, e.g., Helix Virtualization Platform

Full stack understanding of user space and kernel space

Experience with test automation

Experience with real-time measurements, evaluation of Worst-Case Execution Time (WCET)

Understand basics of safety-critical assurance (e.g., DO-178C or MIL-HDBK-516C), including concepts such as traceability, structural coverage, MC/DC, Data coupling/control coupling, test cases/procedures

Experience with benchmarks (interference generators) to exercise targeted elements of the hardware including processor and board. (preferably experience writing such benchmarks)

Experience multicore interference mitigation and verification, e.g., cache coloring, temporal/spatial partitioning

Experience with multicore interference regulatory guidance (e.g., AC 20-193, CAST-32A, AA 22-01)

Experience with DO-297 IMA partitioning, ARINC 653 Parts 1 and 2

Expertise with analyzing memory hierarchy, including cache organization, set associativity, cache coherency, DDR memory banks, interconnect QoS, etc

Familiar with engineering statistics and probability