Senior Embedded Software Engineer

Job Description

Lucix Corporation, a subsidiary of HEICO’s Electronic Technologies Group has steadily evolved to become the world leader in RF Active and Passive Units, Subsystems, and Assemblies, for Commercial, Civil and Defense Satellite Payloads.  Lucix also provides RF hardware for Airborne and Ground Systems.  All hardware is designed, qualified, manufactured, tested, and shipped from Lucix facilities in California, USA.

We are seeking an experienced Senior Embedded Software Engineer to join our team.  You will be developing and verifying complex digital designs for use in spaceborne products across our commercial and defense programs.  Must be a self-starter & team player who can take ownership of a project from design to deployment under a rapid pace. 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities: 

• Responsible for the design, implementation, and verification of embedded software and related digital designs in system-on-chip (SOC) devices as part of Lucix products
• Interface with senior engineers to implement communication protocols, data handling, and system management in an embedded ARM CORTEX processor environment
• Perform trade studies to identify functions that can be purchased as third-party intellectual property (IP) versus internal development
• Assist in creating embedded architecture, performing trade studies to determine which functions should be executed within the embedded processor, which should be implemented in programmable logic fabric, and how to interface between the two domains
• Maintain code base in the company’s version control system
• Develop software and hardware test fixtures to verify the functionality of the embedded code and the overall system
• Perform bench-level verification of the implemented code in the final system, and assist with test of the overall product

Lucix Corporation is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, pregnancy, marital status, national origin, citizenship status, disability, military status, sexual orientation, genetic predisposition or carrier status or any other legally protected characteristic.

Job Requirements: 

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or computer science
• Expertise with embedded software design for ARM CORTEX or similar systems
• Expertise in Python and C language
• Experience with embedded Linux development
• Strong knowledge of implementing UDP/IP networking over Ethernet interface
• Experience with the AMD/Xilinx family of devices and tools, including Vivado and Vitis software.
• Strong proficiency with Microsoft Windows OS, Microsoft Excel
• Strong written and verbal English communication skills
• Strong analytical and excellent problem-solving skills

Desired:

• 5+ years of relevant industry experience
• Experience designing high-sample-rate communication and/or signal processing systems in embedded devices
• Experience with revision control tools such as Git, Mercurial
• Knowledge of digital design using the VHDL language
• Knowledge of sampling theory, digital signal processing, and spectral analysis
• Proficiency with MATLAB software